XF 1.2 Another BB Code question

[BillyGoat4130]

Hi Folks,

Working in a test environment to work out all the bugs on transferring over from vbulletin 4 CMS. On a couple of my articles I have the following BB code to display images for articles that were in the CMS;

View attachment 185398

the # in the brackets being the attachment ID.

How would I go about writing a new BB code to display those images as thumbnails in my current posts?


Also, would there happen to be a BB code "pack" for some of vb4's bb code formatting that is not native to XF? Some other examples;

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Horizontal line
[TR][/TR]
[TD][/TD] (Tables)

 

[Paul B]

I added some basic table BB Code here: http://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-table-bb-code.2847/

 

[BillyGoat4130]

Thats better than I was - but my formatting is awfully funky now with tons of spacing. No support for table within a table perhaps?;



Here is what the text is;

General ATC200 Specifications Production Years : 1981-1983 Engine type : 4 Stroke, Air cooled Displacement : 192 cc Bore x Stroke : 65 x 57.8 mm Compression ratio : 7.8 to 1 Compression : 142 - 170 psi Transmission : 5 speed Clutch Type : Semi-auto Oil Capacity : 1.43 Qt Carburetion : 22 mm Keihin Starting system : Recoil Starter Fuel capacity : 2.3 Gal , 0.4 Gal res. Wheelbase : 46.9 in. Overall Length : 72.4 in. Overall Width : 42.5 in. Ground Clearance : 4.9 in. Seat Height : 27.2 in. Front Tires : 25 x 12 x 9 Rear Tires : 25 x 12 x 9 Front Suspension : none Rear Suspension : none Front Brake : lever + cable operated drum Rear Brake : pedal operated Drum Final Drive : chain Dry Weight : 299.9 lbs MSRP : $1,298.00

View attachment 91347

 

[Paul B]

See this post: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/cta-table-bb-code.68237/page-2#post-720798

 

[BillyGoat4130]

Hmmm...I see.

Any easy way to find and replace or some similar operation those tables I have constructed on pages to take the spacing out? Have probably 50 posts with those in there...

 

[Paul B]

There is no easy way.
I use Excel and the concatenation function to create the strings for my tables.

There are other table BB Codes available in the RM which may prove more suitable.

 

[BillyGoat4130]

I'll check them out, but this will probably be a manual job that can be done over time atleast.

Any ideas on the image code I posted above, how I would make that work?

 

[Paul B]

The attachment is invalid so I'm not sure what it is you are trying to do.

 

[BillyGoat4130]

Well I had pasted the code itself and I guess it tried to parse it. Basially, in the posts that were imported from my vb4 cms, I have code that looks like;

(attach=config) attachmentid#only(/attach) (Using brackets though, obviously)

Previously, it would display the image in the vb4 CMS with this code as a thumbnail of varying different sizes and then pull the light box once it was clicked on.

In Xenforo, it displays it only as a hyperlink. I'd like to display it as a thumbnail instead, knowing I don't really have the option to make it a different thumbnail size from image to image, like I did in vb4.

 

[Paul B]

Attachments in XenForo can't be re-used in other content in that manner.
They can only be embedded.

 

[BillyGoat4130]

Can I convert that code, into image code, so that it will display embedded? Its a local image, not off-site and is apart of the attachment system.

 

[Paul B]

It would require a PHP callback to convert the attachment ID into a URL.

 

[BillyGoat4130]

And...how would the uninformed go about making such an animal work?

 

[BillyGoat4130]

Heres another one I've ran across;

http://prntscr.com/3lv6i6

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Helvetica]Whtever text here [/FONT]



I guess some kind of a guide on the custom BB code system would be helpful as I really do not understand how it works at all..the user manual only refers to media sites; http://xenforo.com/help/bb-code-media-sites/