Pictures

[John Oh]

Tim

If I post pictures in a forum message, do these automatically get added to the random pictures on the home page or do you have to add them manually?

John.

[Tim Watts]

i add them manually (its a free extension as as such is bit limited with regards to linking to the Kunema forum system). I've not moved any for ages - i'll be doing a bit of website maint/dev next time i'm out on the rig so if you're thinking of uploading any photos to the forum do so it the next couple of weeks before i go back :-)

[John Oh]

I have increase the maximum size of forum images from 800 to 1024

[Tim Watts]

john using which parameter? it just that there's some jiggery pokery behind the scenes regarding the templates for different browsers/mobiles and also php settings.

[John Oh]

Tim

Forum Configuration/Uploads

now
Maximum Image Width 1024
Maximum Image Height 1024

was

Maximum Image Width 800
Maximum Image Height 2000

which didn't make much sense to me.

[Tim Watts]

ahh right - well its because the templates mess up if the pictures are over 800px wide (heights not an issue though).

The way it works is that theres no actual restriction in px size as to the photo that can be uploaded (i.e. at the php settings and Joomla settings atage), but in the background a script runs that resizes them to 800 max width which ensures they display correctly once they get as far as kunena.

Most of this occurring outside Kunena (or even joomla) in php scripts.

hence kunena being set to 800px wide as a max width.

This really is all a bit of a workaround to fix the 'upload' issues people were having when attaching photos. There are some known bugs (which actually stem from Joomla itself). I'm a beta tester for Kunena 2.0 which will fix a great many problems so can't wait for a stable release which should cure LOTS of problems :-) Also Joomla 1.7 address' many of them too.

i've put them back to 800w by (big)h for the time being to ensure cross platform compatibility just for the time being - hope you don't mind.