Pic of the Day

[Zephyr]

Expanded pic of the day should be working now.

I saw it by accident before you posted. Thanks Ed007Toronto!!!!

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Are there any reasons why the photo couldn't be like twice the size it is now? Would it hog too much bandwidth or something? There's certainly room - the pix are smaller than both the UT logo and the google ad. Captions, while useful for some pix, are not necessary for all of them...on the odd chance of a pic that's generally hard to identify, well, there's nothing wrong with a dedicated 'pic of the day' thread where it can be discussed.

 

[junctionist]

What happened to the caption?

 

[Edward Skira]

Too busy to put it up today.

 

[Dylan Leblanc]

Didin't some of the islands wash away in a big storm once?

btw site admins, I notice the pic of the day links to http://www.urbantoronto.ca/picoftheday/picoftheday_large.jpg?<? echo rand(1,3000); ?>

If you want to use PHP in the vBulletin template, you'll need to create a plugin at hook location global_start and put the PHP in there. You'll need to assign the rand(1,3000); to a variable, say like $randomnumber = rand(1,3000); then in the header template where the pic of the day is entered, simply put $randomnumber after the question mark at the end of the URL. If you need more instructions just message me, I do this type of thing alot on SkyscraperPage Forum.

 

[Dylan Leblanc]

On further investigation I see that the bit of PHP that ends up in the URL comes from http://www.urbantoronto.ca/picoftheday/picoftheday.html rather than from vBulletin. That webpage will need to have a .php extension for the PHP to get parsed.

 

[dt_toronto_geek]

Dang, I missed that. Anyone else get that?

 

[Sir Novelty Fashion]

I've really been loving the pic of the day lately (and the captions)... great stuff. I have only one request: can they be higher-resolution in the pop-up window? I realllly want to see more detail in that vintage Yonge and Bloor pic!

 

[Edward Skira]

Well thank you. Trying to mix it up.

As for the resolution that's the best we can do at this point.

 

[khris]

I've noticed lately the images for pic of the day are very low quality. Grainy looking gifs. Is this intentional?

 

[Solaris]

thanks for all your work Ed on migrating the site and fixing all these 'little bugs'

 

[Edward Skira]

I've noticed lately the images for pic of the day are very low quality. Grainy looking gifs. Is this intentional?

Not intentional though I haven't really noticed that the quality is poor. Mind you I'm pulling the photos from the site for the most part so the quality depends on the photographer.

 

[khris]

I think it's because a gif doesn't have as many colours as a jpg, so that could be why I'm seeing the graininess.

 

[000]

Would it be possible to provide a reference link to the thread & post number the pic originated?

(or are these separate user submissions?)

 

[khris]

I was also thinking that. It would be cool if the photo was of a specific development if it had a link to the project in the pop-up image. Either under the pic, or linked into it.