Something I've noticed with this modification. It takes forever and a day for the Imagshack buttons to show up at the bottom of a thread, if they show up at all. This increases the response time for the browsers to render a page, and at times, has created small issues with my users.

Obviously, this is an issue with the Imageshack servers (most likely high use). How difficult would it be to create the forms locally, including the buttons/images? This way, the actual "connection" to Imageshack wouldn't be needed unless the user wanted to actually upload a file.

Unfortunately not as easy as you think. For instance, with Imageshack, they do have a XML API. First thing you have to do is get and api key, to get that key you have to justify why you want the key and they may or may not issue it to you (you need to specify the number of unique visitors to your site per day and include a description of how you intend to use the ImageShack XML API). And that is even before you begin to be able to develop a form to use the API. See http://code.google.com/p/imageshacka.../ImageshackAPI for more information.

It is just a lot easier to use the embedded form method. If I was doing a paid request for a client and they wanted to go the API way, then I would. But as I have limited free time on my hands and I am releasing this for free, this hack is likely to stay with the embedded form method.

I have a problem with this...only 1 of them works on my forum

Imageshack toolbar

Rest dont work

am I doimg sumit wrong

I am not getting the options in my usergroup manager after installation to enable this hook. Anyone else had this problem?

Nevermind, user error.... *smack*

Did you do Steps 2, 3 & 6 of the Install/upgrade Instructions ?

Understood. Was pretty much thinking out loud and wondering if it could easily be done. Thanks for the reply. :)

yep m8

If that is the case, and you have followed the instructions to the letter and it has nothing to do with manually edited templates (because the auto-template insertion did not work), then the only way I can help you is to look at your installation.

[s]If you want me to take a look then feel free to PM me your site address, a temporary Administrator user (with the following administrator permissions - Can Administer Settings for editing options, Can Administer Styles for editing templates, Can Administer Language Settings for editing phrases, Can Administer User Permissions for editing Usergroup permissions and finally Can Administer Plugins for editing products and plugins), and ftp access details (with appropriate permissions).

Without these I can not help you any further. You can revoke these after I have helped you out.

I will look when I have time, and even if I have a look, I can not guarantee that I will be able to fix it, so it is up to you what you want to do.[/s]

I had a look at your installation and the problem was that you uploaded the .xml files from Steps 1 - 3 to /httpdocs/includes/xml which is the wrong location (in your case), instead of /httpdocs/forums/includes/xml and that is why the Megaupload and Photobucket did not work.

It is now all fixed up. Enjoy :)