[split] Coding Question

[leefish]

I have several plug ins that do this for me - I have one by JeffChan where I can specify which forum the images are pulled from, but it pulls ALL the images, in thread order. Some of my posts have 4 images in - and I only wanted to show 6 pics in the banner. I was going to use Jeffs plug in for the forum display. I would work around the calling all the images by having only ONE MyBB image attachment in a thread, the rest being Xthreads.

I have another excellent plug in by Rateu which gets ONLY the first attachment from the attached images list in a thread and displays that. I use that right now on my portal page. I prefer the coding on Rateus plug in as it gets only the first image attachment, but it would be nice to have the forum display option like in Jeffs.

Really what I am looking for is that the plug ins I have call the attachments from the Xthread attachments database rather than the myBB attachments database. It seems a terrible waste of space to not be able to use the same image twice. I can see in the Db that there is a table for the x threads images, what I can't work out is how to get them into the display format. If can get the images showing on portal and/or index and/or source forum and select from one or more forums then most of my problem is solved - I just move the attachments set up for my downloads forum across to Xthreads.  Heck, my entire board I guess.

I attached the files I am using.