Generating links for Bulletin boards (Solution)

[ecplatt]

I was dicussing the issue of links on another BB (like) I post my photos to. One issue was posting too many medium or large photos in one thread. I know that this can be problematic for modem users or people with slow systems. But just raw links usually don't get as much attention (we are using the BB to post photos as a type of photo album for our group).

Since PBase generates photo number sequentially (if you upload them in a zip file) I whipped up a batch file to create thumbnail image links.

Batch file:

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REM @ECHO OFF
REM PBASE LINK GENERATOR
REM
REM %1 FirstPhotoNumber
REM %2 LastPhotoNumber
REM

REM CLEAR OUT OLD FILE
ECHO. > c:\PgenOut.txt
ECHO Click photo to [b]Enlarge[/b] >> c:\PgenOut.txt
ECHO. >> c:\PgenOut.txt

REM GENERATE LINKS

FOR /L %%I IN (%1,1,%2) DO ECHO [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/%%I.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/%%I/small.jpg[/img] [/url][url=http://www.pbase.com/image/%%I/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/%%I.jpg]Large[/url]>> c:\PgenOut.txt

REM OPEN TEXT FILE
START NOTEPAD c:\pgenout.txt

** Please note that the FOR line should be all on one line in your text editor (it will probably wrap around)

I saved it to a text file called PGEN.bat & ran it like this
C:> PGEN 33067605 33067615

This batch file will produce text like this:

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Click photo to [b]Enlarge[/b]

[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067605.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067605/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067605/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067605.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067606.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067606/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067606/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067606.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067607.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067607/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067607/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067607.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067608.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067608/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067608/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067608.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067609.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067609/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067609/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067609.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067610.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067610/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067610/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067610.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067611.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067611/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067611/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067611.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067612.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067612/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067612/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067612.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067613.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067613/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067613/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067613.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067614.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067614/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067614/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067614.jpg]Large[/url]
[url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067615.jpg][img]http://www.pbase.com/image/33067615/small.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067615/medium.jpg]Meduim[/url]  [url=http://www.pbase.com/image/33067615.jpg]Large[/url]


Which intern when pasted in a BB gives output like this:

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Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large
Meduim Large

[ukexpat]

Now that's clever -- you need to correct the spelling of "medium" however...