[TIP] Basic thumbnail solution, using .thumb_ instead of TV image

Hi all,
Has anyone got a quick’n’dirty solution for accessing the thumbnails generated by fckeditor/the file manager?
I would like to replace large template variable images with their equivalent .thumb_-file in selected Ditto calls.

I have: where mainimage is a custom image TV. And would like:

For now, I would like to avoid any solution with additional thumbnail generation such as gallery add-ons, or new TV:s where the user has to do more editing than just inserting the hires mainimage.

Thanks for reading!

The above post is the most simple and, at the same time, most clever idea that I have read within recent weeks/months -- using of system thumbnails that are anyway generated whenever somebody uploads image with fck editor.

I tried to keep my thing as simple (and clean) as the idea itself -- snippet "get_fck_thumb":

Instead of [+mainimage+] use [[get_fck_thumb? &image=`[+mainimage+]`]]

WoooT! Nice tip!!

Thank you, alik, for your elegant snippet and kind words on my idea. It worked instantly and above expectation.

Hi Guys,

I’m a newbee in the modx world, and i think that I’m looking for a similar solution without getting the same results (ie I’m not getting any image URL).

I’m thinking that I’m missing a part here (maybe pulling in the TV so ditto on the parent page can list them out?)

I have:

1. Created a TV for my image - working fine
2. Added in the snippet
3. Added this to the chuck (called as the template in Ditto)
<image src="[[get_fck_thumb? &image=`[+advert-image+]`]]" />

Placed this ditto call on the container page:
[!Ditto? &id=`marketplace` &dateFormat=`%d - %b - %Y` &dateSource=`pub_date` &tpl=`marketplace` &parents=`67` &dateFilterDefault=`1`!]

Any guidence would be very much appreciated.

- Does the ditto call with chunk itself work, does it list documents?
- Does the snippet

work on a page with that TV?
- Are the thumnails created in the image folder?

Hi,

The ditto call works yes
Thumbnails are being created - yes
I can also pull the normal large image from the TV through to the Ditto call from within the chunk

I think the problem is with the snippet.

I wonder if it has something $image variable within the snippet? Should this variable $image related to the name of my TV (advertImage) in any way? or is this variable a default variable for TV image uploads?

Thanks for trying to help by the way - much appreciated.

Did you try my change code with change ** instead of ++ on a page
just pasting it into the resource content field or in your template?

//
- Go back to the snippet and look for double ?> ending! That would break it.
- Make sure you named the snippet get_fck_thumb

Quote from: oroojo at Nov 04, 2009, 07:57 PM

3. Added this to the chuck (called as the template in Ditto)
<image src="[[get_fck_thumb? &image=`[+advert-image+]`]]" />

should be

Hi,

@mrhaw
Yes i have tried both of these options in the content of the page to test :

[[get_fck_thumb? &image=`[+advertImage+]`]]

and

[[get_fck_thumb? &image=`[*advertImage*]`]]

(Note, I removed the dash of the TV name just to test)

I had double checked the snippet name was correct with no spaces etc.

@tkfm
Hi, sorry yes, I had removed that, but was still not getting the thumb path when viewing the source code