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Hi AndrewD,

First i want to say thanks for the hack :) it helped me a lot .. and i hope you can upgrade it to work with vb 3.5.0 when it releases :D

Second : I wrote a script that extend your hack to help my website needs (A Ticket system )
i have been using it on my site for a quite time now ..
I received a request from people to share the ticket system with them but since it's originally your hack + the addon script i was wondering if it's ok to do so ?!

Thanks

How do i make it so instead of linking direct urls like this


I can link like this

Can anybody please show me how ?

Yes when you add links it says you can do that but i have tried and it says i got the link wrong.

What am i doing wrong ?

Thanks - I'm very happy for you to share the work - the only proviso is that if it leads to support requests back in this forum, we need to sort out the details, so that we're not looking after multiple code versions. I'm sure you will handle this just fine.

Not sure - by default, if you create a link to a file called sally.pdf on your site, which is in subdirectory /fred/jim then you should be able to specify either or . Be aware that the default starting point is the root of your web site, not your forum directory, so if you are trying to get at a subdirectory of your forums, then you need to stick the forum directory name at the start of the structure.

If you change the parameter local_file_root (lf admin page) from 0 to 1, then the file is specified relative to your server's file system. This gives a way to store files outside the directory structure, provided you're careful about security settings on your site.

Hi AndrewD :)

Any chance you could make it so that when you create a linked sub forum the system also creates a link within that category back to the forum in question.

I'm just thinking about the "circle" users take .. They look at a forum, see the link to the category, click it, checkout the links, they then want to get back to the forum they were in. It would be nice if, near the top, there was a link to that forum.

Good idea - I have a stack of 'tidying up' changes waiting to release in 1.61 - mainly those suggested by catalyst - I'll give this some thought. I'm hoping that the VVB3.5 plugin system is not going to require too many changes

While we're in 'suggestions mode', I'd like to suggest the option of having category be a link elsewhere.
For example, we have a home cinema installers directory. It's a thread in which people pay to have an entry. It's a list of links but since people pay for it, I want it to be maintained by myself within a specific forum.
I'd like to be able to include it in the links database using a link to that specific thread as the category link.

In a similar way to forum categories being links elsewhere.
Is this possible?

Cool :)

One other thing while you're there ..

Any chance you could make it that we can pick a vB style per category? or the same style as the forum I link the category to?

Great hack!

But there is one important question: is it possible to convert pafiledb database into this hack?

Thank you!