How to get .jpg url from attached images?

[hiker]

I heard this may be available finally on VB4 and would like to know if this is true.

Currently when I right click and "Copy Image Location" or go to the properties of an attached jpg image, it gives me the attachmentid number.

I would like the url, as in http://www.website.com/XXXXXX/XXXXXXX.jpg

Example, this image:
http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/P/R/3/eiffel_tower_paris003.jpg

When uploaded, I can only seem to grab this url:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=111263&stc=1&d=1264644599

I understand this will still work in VB forums as a hotlink, but I'll attempt to hotlink with this url in phpbb forums as well and it will not work.

I am currently using the "Folder" method for storing my images, not the database.

Can you tell me if it's possible to obtain the .jpg url of the image by default?

Thanks.

[ageurtse]

Attachments aren't stored with that kind of extension, see my mod AJGattach (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=233261) in here i get the attachmentpath

i use $image = fetch_attachment_path($userid, $post['filedataid'],$thumb,''); this done within a plugin, also there is somthing that display's the attachment.

[hiker]

I appreciate your response, but is there a simple setting where any user can just right click and copy the image location, like on other websites? (and grab the image url?)

I plan on watermarking my attached images, and I want my members to be able to hotlink these images easily on other websites and forums, thus advertising the watermarked url.

Thanks.

[ageurtse]

i don't think that this is possible.
because within small board often the attachments are stored in the database.

[Paul M]

I heard this may be available finally on VB4 and would like to know if this is true.Where did you hear that ?

[hiker]

i don't think that this is possible.
because within small board often the attachments are stored in the database.

Right, but I'm storing mine in a file, not the database.

Where did you hear that ?

I'll have to find my post on vbulletin.com , but I'm having trouble opening their forum right now.

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Where did you hear that ?

OK, I found it, by Lynne:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?329687-How-to-get-jpg-url-from-uploaded-attachment&p=1863165&viewfull=1#post1863165

[netshaq]

testing https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

i have vb4 and it worked for me

link below
http://www.netshaq.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=165&d=1264521456

[hiker]

testing http://www.netshaq.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=165&d=1264521456

i have vb4 and it worked for me

link below
http://www.netshaq.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=165&d=1264521456

Right, but I want to be able to promote my forum by hotlinking images in phpbb forums. This will not work in phpbb forums, they cannot read "attachmentid" links.

Frankly I find it strange that this has not been an issue in the past for those wanting to hotlink images to different types of forums. :(


And... when I go Live with my VB4 installation next week from phpbb2, what's going to happen to all of those other hotlinked images that I have on other forums, driving traffic to my site?