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  1. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    Hi all www.qualityimagesearch.com Yes, I have had this site on before (http://x10hosting.com/forums/review-my-site/124523-high-quality-image-search-engine.html) but there have been some very neat changes. Firstly, I have now switched to pro hosting and a decent (if not a little boring) domain...
  2. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Sorry for the double post but I've cracked it... Test Page below - which works treat. Large preview only loads onmouseover. In firefox, the image stops loading onmouseout, but in IE and Chrome, it continues loading but not seen until mouseover again... Simples no? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC...
  3. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Brilliant!!! This means all large "hotlinked" image could be loaded only on demand, bu using an on-hover. This still means it's hotlinked, but not all the images on the page will load at once.... just so simple and effective. I had a look at the lazy load, but in all honesty, there's alot of...
  4. learning_brain

    Searching Link Checker / Link Ckecker gesucht

    I have a link crawler- I'd run it for you if I had a URL... Otherwise, to check your results, try a freebie sitemap generator. This will find everything and provide in an XML. http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ This will at least validate what you have. What system are you using? cURL?
  5. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Thanks Cybrax I'm shortly going to be moving to paid hosting and have now allocated a .com domain name for it. (not very interesting but great for SEO) I have already checked with the hosts about the CPU usgae for the crawler and they don't have problem with it a) because they don't have...
  6. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Wow - CDN's are complex! (Content Delivery Network?) Yes, this would be the perfect solution.... if I had enough traffic.... and enough money! CDN's are notoriously difficult to set up on your own by the look of it and professional services are extortionate! Some CDN networks claim to offer...
  7. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    LOL - even trivial JS is hard for me! BTW - I like the Overlay Image idea. Still reading up.... I've also found a way to avoid the nasty switcheroo problem. When the crawler finds an image, I could use exif_read_data() and store a concatenated string as a fingerprint of that image. Then, on...
  8. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Interesting diversity of opinion... as I feared. Yes I do have functionality built into the crawler to ensure hotlinking can take place, but I'm mimicing the useragent in cURL to look like a browser. The check comes when I try to gain info about the image (like size). If I can't obtain the...
  9. learning_brain

    Hotlinking Question...

    Some of you may know I now run an image search engine that crawls for high quality pics and graphics. Unfortunately, due to the somewhat unpredictable nature of my 'good' free host, my account has been deleted so I can't demonstrate the problem. Essentially, there are two parts (well more but...
  10. learning_brain

    Image load order

    My Image Search Engine is now working very nicely and provides lots of high quality images.... Thats the problem..... Each image was taking ages to load, so I created a dynamic thumbnail navigator with a large preview (original image) on hover (put in a span). This works pretty well, but the...
  11. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    Sorry for the double post... :( I have now made a few big changes. My previous problem was image loading speed. As I was loading all the original images, a set of 18 took quite a while and would have put the visitor off. I am now creating thumbs for the majority of images in the db, which...
  12. learning_brain

    Saving GD thumbs to directory problem

    Sorted this. You are right, there are many image types not included here such as bmp, ico, tiff to name but a few.... and the hotlinking issue cannot be resolved easily. In order to avoid this problem, I have created a loop asking if $image exists. If it doesn't, no file is saved and it marks...
  13. learning_brain

    Saving GD thumbs to directory problem

    lol - yeah you could say that! I've been busily working on a thumbnail creator to speed up loading of the page. The original images just filter through in the background for large previews. My initial script seems to be working very nicely , but it appears some sites won't let me "pinch" the...
  14. learning_brain

    Saving GD thumbs to directory problem

    Thanks lemon-tree Yes the image did output fine, but after lots of trial and error, I needed to alter the folder priviledges to xwrxwrxwr, which worked fine - strange host! Thnaks for the tip about the image destroy info.
  15. learning_brain

    Saving GD thumbs to directory problem

    Hope you can help on this. I have a short script to produce a thumb from an image url and then save it to my thumbs directory. //set max size for thumb $max_width=110; $max_height=80; //header('Content-type: image/jpeg'); // Setting the resize parameters...
  16. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    Thanks Matt for the comments. Didn't know that, although to be honest, this is only a development platform before I buy a "proper" host and domain name... which will resolve the issue. I can't develop a crawler on x10 due to Terms of Service and I've have a bad experience with X10 anyway...
  17. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    Thanks Although I store every img url that it comes into contact with, It will disregard all those that do not fit the "suitability" criteria. This means the crawler won't go over old ground and is much more efficient as a result. "Suitable" images occurr every 250 or so images tested, so it...
  18. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    That.......... is......*thinks*......... a very good idea!! Why didn't I think of that!!! I'll have to practice up on my GD skills again because I think this will take a while to sort out. The crawler is already hugely long and crammed with if{}else{} sections and it's starting to get a...
  19. learning_brain

    High Quality Image Search Engine

    Sorry for the double post, but this has had a lot of work done. www.smartimagesearch.net76.net The front page looks similar, but believe me, this is hugely improved... with neat page navigation and great image previews. The crawler now works well, and you can watch it working! The search is a...
  20. learning_brain

    Improved Search Algorythm (Alternative to FULLTEXT)

    This is a lot to get my head round and areas I'm not totally comfortable with yet. Your suggestion of implode isn't suitable becasue I don't want to use the entire string to search (unless I do that as well as what I already have... hmmm). A search string may be "Lord of the rings" or even...
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