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Does anyone know where I might be able to find a copy of the files for this extension. I have searched for hours with no luck.

Thanks, Don

Hi Don!

I do not know an extension called PDFThumbs, but there is an exte called Extension:PDFThumbnails. Its files seem to be no longer online currently, but the extension page still points to a website. Maybe you can write its owner a mail asking him for the files...

Yeah, That's the one. I saw for several other Apps like Drupal. Maybe that is where PDFThumbs got stuck in my head. Somewhere I think I found two authors, but no way to reach either.

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Silly me. If I would have read the instructions, it does not have a directory. It was sitting quite pretty all by itself in the extensions directory.

So, I have a copy of the code. Is there a good place to put it, besides somewhere public on one of my servers?

After weeks of trying to make something work, It was doing what I needed to begin with, just not enough lights on upstairs any longer for me to see it :p

Thanks 88.130.88.173.

Dcshank (talk) 01:52, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Just out of interest, where did you find the code? If the extension isn't publicly available, we may as well delete (or at least archive) the extension page.

It was on my server the entire time. I was looking for a folder by that name, but it was just a file in the extensions folder. Should I upload it somewhere? Or should I post a link to a copy on my server? Or is there no interest in it any longer? I found I did not need if for what I wanted to do, so it is taking up space at the moment, but someone may want to make use of it.

If you're prepared to host a publicly-accessible copy of the PHP file, that would be better than nothing. At the moment this extension is not available anywhere on the Internet (at least, as far as I could find).

It looks like the Wayback Machine archived the linked website, including the downloads. The extension is just a single PHP file (PDFThumbnails-1.5.php). Wikimedia uses a different extension (PdfHandler), so I doubt there's much interest in this one.

PleaseStand

This keeps getting more interesting, or uninteresting? PdfHandler is a totally different extension with several files and a directory. The Wayback version of PDFThumbnails is 264 lines. The copy I have is 337 lines. Both are version 1.5 and neither has a date imbedded. There are significant differences also. E.g., one routine in the Wayback has an "if", where as my version has an "if" - "else" in the same routine.

I see you have fixed the link on the Extension page. My copy is here: http://www.carmendrew.com/mediawiki/PDFThumbnails.zip in the event that some interested party might like to pursue this any further.