Thumbnails need a new home and name!

Question

Hello world. I am trying to figure out two issues im having.
1. i need to have the thumbnails save to a diffrent directory. they now save in the same directorey as the large image in a folder called thumbnails. I need them to save one directory back and in a folder called thumbnais.
2. i need the thumbnails to save without the size being apended. so image_50_50.jpg  should be image.jpg.
Please help a brother out. I have looked throught all the dependent files and scripts i can think of but cant figure out how to make this work or where the code is for me to mod.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Ryan,
while the first "saving to a different directory" issue may be tricky to solve, the other one should be much easier:
1. open the file "includes/tng/triggers/tNG_DynamicThumbnail.class.php" and scroll down to the very last function named Execute()
2. in here you´ll see two instances of the variable $thumbnailName with slightly different values, but which all have the image width and height embedded in the to-be-generated thumbnail name.
Please try with modifying the two variable instances as mentioned next, and please backup the original file first
instance 1
before:
$thumbnailName = $path_info['filename'].'_'.$width.'x'.$height.(isset($path_info['extension'])?'.'.$path_i nfo['extension']:'');
after:
$thumbnailName = $path_info['filename'].(isset($path_info['extension'])?'.'.$path_info['extension']:'');
instance 2
before:
$thumbnailName = $path_info['filename'].'_'.$width.'x'.$height.'_w_'.$hash.(isset($path_info['extension']) ?'.'.$path_info['extension']:'');
after:
$thumbnailName = $path_info['filename'].$hash.(isset($path_info['extension'])?'.'.$path_info['extension']: '');
Cheers,
Günter