Attachment in first post only. Disable attachments when replying to a thread.

[Aurous]

I need my users to upload attachments only when making a new thread, so it only shows in the first post. Rest can only reply but not post attachments.

How do I implement this?

[Xenon]

open newreply.php find this:
$forumperms = fetch_permissions($forumid);
and below add:

$forumperms = $forumperms & ~CANPOSTATTACHMENT;

that should work..

[Aurous]

That works like a charm!

Thanks a LOT!

May God bless u!

[Xenon]

:)

You're welcome

[Boofo]

Stefan, what does this do in front of CANPOSTATTACHMENT?

~

I've never seen that before.

[Xenon]

i hardle believe you've never seen it before, as it's on every vb3 php file at the top

error_reprtin(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

and it stands for the bit-wise not operator, as permissions are stored in a bitfield, you have to use bitoperators lie & ~ or |

[Boofo]

i hardle believe you've never seen it before, as it's on every vb3 php file at the top

error_reprtin(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

and it stands for the bit-wise not operator, as permissions are stored in a bitfield, you have to use bitoperators lie & ~ or |

You're right. I guess I never paid that much attention to it before. How do you know which one to use when?

[Xenon]

Well, it's just binary logic.

You just have to know what you want.

Here for example if you want to know if someone has the permission to add an attachment, you would use this.

if ($forumperms & CANPOSTATTACHMENT)

if you want to know if a user has every permission EXCEPT adding attachments, you would use ~ before.
and so on.

You just have to use it a few times, and then you will get into it :)

[Aurous]

Also, is it possible to limit this to a few forums not all?

[Xenon]

if (in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(x,y,z)))
{
$forumperms = $forumperms & ~CANPOSTATTACHMENT;
}

replacing the x,y,z with a list of forumids where it's restricted :)

[Aurous]

well people cant post any attachment while making a new reply, but can always edit the post and add attachments. :rolleyes:

[Xenon]

you can add the same piece of code into editpost.php as well, which will prevent that as well.

if you chang it a little bit in editpost.php you get exactly, what you want:

if (in_array($foruminfo['forumid'], array(x,y,z)) AND $threadinfo['firstpostid'] != $postinfo['postid'])
{
$forumperms = $forumperms & ~CANPOSTATTACHMENT;
}

[Aurous]

Thanks a lot. I knew I had to add the same bit in editpost.php but wasnt sure of the firstpost edit.

BTW, you can edit your code so others dont get confused:

$postinfo['postid])

to

$postinfo['postid'])

[Xenon]

:)
you're welcome

btw: thx, fixed :)