Alexa- Thumbnails ?

[TMP]

Hello Support-Team


I`m a little sad about the Alexa-Thumbnail Fuction. I have pay for the Pro-Version and one of the primary features of eSyndiCat for me is, to generate automatically thumbnails. That`s one of the reasons to buy eSyndiCat.

This time Alexa grow up and build a pay-Service to use this feature > it`s not nice, but it`s real.

Now I think eSyndiCat must react and must inform our customers about:

1. What the plan for the feature with the thumbnail-preview ?

2. What is the best workaround to resolve this problem(this time) ?

3. How ca I use the Alexa-Paid-Programm within eSyndiCat if I want to pay for it ?

I think everything is better than “no comment” to this problem.

So please help me and other users by sending a small information or a notice. I don`t need to start a discussion about the function, but I need a function to realize a thumbnail-preview.

Best regards from germany and thanks forward,


TMP

[Stephen Young]

The paid version seems pretty easy to set up... I can't because my host does not yet support PHP5.

At the moment im using:
<img src="http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?s=MSNSEARCH&r={$link.url}" />

Although im not sure if msn would approve.

[TMP]

Hello Stephen,

and Thanks for your information, but my server use also php 4....:cry:

There comes a Thumbnail with.... Preview not available... sh..

Regards,

TMP

[TMP]

Hello Stephen,

there is a new beta for php4

Best Regards,

TMP

[TMP]

Hello all,


I can`t wait longer for a "new" possibility to see thumbnails in my eSyndiCat,
so i have sign up for Alexa to use it.

There is the first beta for php 4 available, have somone test it ? - I´m not reely a programmer,
so i need some help please... :forgive: I hope someone can help my to run the Alexa-Paid-
Service within my eSyndiCat Pro.

Thanks for your massmails:applause:


TMP

[Loren]

TMP As irritating as it is not having Alexa Thumbs working it is only an aesthetical perk within esyndicat, and hardly i am sure the main reason that you purchased esyndicat directory, or the fault of esyndicat that this company now wants to charge for the use of this facility, now is it?

Esyndicat I am sure will come up with a solution within time, but Rome was not built in a day so patience is paramount, in the mean time if you are so worried that your directory is not going to look like you wanted, there are other options which have been kindly created by esyndicat members in order to get around this, therefore take some time to search the forum, include Loren in the search for Posts rather than threads, you should find the MOD that was created to impliment your own thumbnails. Its not difficult just takes a bit of effort, and certainly will be cheaper than paying Alexa :)

[TMP]

TMP As irritating as it is not having Alexa Thumbs working it is only an aesthetical perk within esyndicat, and hardly i am sure the main reason that you purchased esyndicat directory, or the fault of esyndicat that this company now wants to charge for the use of this facility, now is it?

Hello Loren,

for someone Alexa Thumbs is an "aesthetical perk" for other like me, it is one of the important features to create my form of a Directory. Esyndicat is generally nice, but when I make the decision to buy this Script, that`s include the possibility to have Thumbnails, not to haven`t it.


Esyndicat I am sure will come up with a solution within time, but Rome was not built in a day so patience is paramount,


That`s your opinion. I think it`s not good for everyone who use this script to get "no statement" about what they want to do, to resolve or fix this problem.


in the mean time if you are so worried that your directory is not going to look like you wanted, there are other options which have been kindly created by esyndicat members in order to get around this, therefore take some time to search the forum, include Loren in the search for Posts rather than threads, you should find the MOD that was created to impliment your own thumbnails. Its not difficult just takes a bit of effort, and certainly will be cheaper than paying Alexa :)

Thanks for your Tipp about using workaround and use the forumsearch. I`m allways searching for a solution, and i have Test more than one "ostensively" solution, but they don`t work within my script. If I can helpy myself, I`ll do it, but here I`m depend on a small kind of Support from the Support-Team.

Best Regards,


TMP

[TMP]

Need some Help... Part II

The Alexa-Thumbnail(payversion)-Script for php4
works. So my question for the Support-Team, or every other is:

How can i integrate this function instead of the
normally Alexa-function ?

The standard Script with php4 is:

<?php

require("ThumbnailUtility.php");

$access_key_id = "[INSERT YOUR ACCESS KEY ID]";
$secret_access_key = "[INSERT YOUR SECRET ACCESS KEY]";
$default_noimage = "[http://your default no image location]";

$link = get_thumbnail_link($access_key_id, $secret_access_key, "Small", $default_noimage, "yahoo.com");

echo "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

?>

<html>
<body>
<?php echo "$link"; ?>
</body>
</html>

to get a thumbnail > this works.

Hope someone can help me to integrate this script into my Pro-version ??? :forgive:


Thanks and best Regards from Germany,

TMP

[billybh]

Do this in your php file

$gDirSmarty->assign(’tpl_link’, $link);

then call {$tpl_link} in the .tpl file, that should do it.

[Bryan Ex]

$link = needs to be an array as well. As the code is above, Yahoo will be returned for every thumb. I am also trying to figure out how to implement the paid Alexa service into eSyndiCat so if anyone knows... :confused:

At this point I have the thumb utility script from Alexa, I've set up an account and have access codes, and I can get the thumbs to work in a blank HTML page. What I don't know is how to write the array correctly, where to include the thumb utility script, what Smarty needs to make it work, and the final format for the img src.

[Michael Hill]

Hi, Bryan!

Insert code like above into view-link.php. Rename above variable from $link to (for example) $link_thumb. And with Smarty

$gDirSmarty->assign('link_thumb', $link_thumb);


Then in view-link.tpl use $link_thumb for displaying thumbs.

[Bryan Ex]

Thanks Michael... Dave Baker actually has me up and running based on the info he's posted In This Thread (http://www.esyndicat.com/forum/about6665-2.html) and everything is (almost) working great. I still have a header conflict when submitting a link comment and I've posted the details on it there :cool-yo:

[Michael Hill]

You are always wellcome! I am very glad, that we find solution for you!

[Bryan Ex]

Thanks Michael... it is almost complete but not quite yet. There is still a header conflict between the Alexa thumb and submitting a comment to a link. I will hope someone knows a solution but if not, I will just remove link-details completely to fix the error in time for the weekend. I have posted the details in my last post HERE (http://www.esyndicat.com/forum/about6665-2.html)