In three weeks, I will release the mood hacks, and the buddy list hacks, with a few odds and ends and choices of the user profile pages.

There will be more down the line, however, for now, that is the only time frame i can actually feel safe about commenting on. we have run the mood hack now through two fresh installs on two different 2.3 boards without any troubles this far. Brad will offer his opinons when he has the mood hack freshly installed on his server.

I have been given the dubious honor of going through the upload script again, and once that is completed, Brad will decide to whom will recieve that hack. Time frame v.s. complaints against bug ridden hacks is what we are shooting for, and that is why this thread was posted to begin with. Get some feedback, get a few ideas or suggestions, and than go from there.
Since there was not that great of interest, again, we will take those only who replied, and supply from that angle.
One of my biggest complaints was offering hacks to non members, or non vb owners, and having the posted interested members in the hacks as reference, is why the hacks will be exclusive to only those who replied.

Again, three weeks is the goal, or time frame that i am shooting for. The fourth board we are testing the mood hack on will be the ultimate test really...A version of WA's 3.0(not WA's actual site) vb portal setup, that so far looks like there will be no conflicts with the code.

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(kind of a example of why we are releasing to only those who post)

Greetings All:

Ok, this thread is just plain stupid. They make some hacks, post a threads saying "we're going to be releasing them", and then, because all 7,000 members didn't post here and start doing the wave or something, we get "well, we're not going to post them all, there's no interest".

I'm going to go ahead and make the picture upload hack. I'll probably have it done by the end of the week, if not sooner. Don't bother replying saying "yes, yes, I want it, please, please, please". I want it for my board, and when I finish it, I see no reason why I shouldn't just post it here for others to make use of it if they can.

It's a good thing the entire open-source movement doesn't think the way these guys do.... :mad:

And you are? Did you by chance read all of the posts?

We were wanting to get a feel of what the users wanted.. we tell them what we have and.. maybe get some suggestions on what they want to see.

The upload script was simple... and I don't mind posting it... I mean I created it for myself and because others wanted it to.. or I would have not made up the instructions and everything for installing it.

It is just nice to get some feedback from the people that would want it... I only want to have to post this once.. so getting some feedback on things people would like to see in it or things it will do would be greatly appreciated.

Btw.. I had no say so in posting this thread. I am just commenting because I am helping in makings these hacks.

btw open-source movement? Addons/hacks for a $160 script.. hmm..

Also on that note... I am wondering myself how many good hacks from the php greats.. go unreleased... so where is the movement.. or did I miss the boat? To me is should somewhat be appreciated when anyone releases a hack or wants to get some people's feedback before they release. I mean anyone can make up some stuff totally based on thier own likes and dislikes and just release it and say.. "No I will not add what you want, cause I made it just the way I like it, who cares what you like"

We on the other hand, feel that if we are going to release something, we WANT everyone to have it where they can use it and make it beneficial to them. For example, my upload script, it is for one photo.. but want if you want more... well that can be a feature request, or something that a lot of people would like to see... ok taking in those comments I will add that and release it as that.. instead of making an update.

Sorry if I am or sound like an +++++++... I am knew to programming but I am a verteran to customer support and ALL THE +++++ING that goes along with that.. so if I can eliminate a lot of that... well you have to understand that ... instead of being one sided and hard headed.. (I myself am that too!)

Anyway you guys could come up with something where we could upload
more than 1 attachment in a posting, maybe let the admin set the number of uploads and size?

By the way, I see no problem at all the way you guys have conducted this.

I don't think I mentioned it.. but I have set up Administration and Moderations for this script..

the script as of yet cannot generated more than one photo upload part.. but all you have to do is copy the code (select part of it) and paste it then rename some of the variables so they don't over lap.

and Again... sorry if people think the way we conducted this is stupid/lame/retarded/moronic/dumb... but comments like webhost make up for the lack of respect that others might have.. thanks webhost.

when I get more time (I am at work) I will explain the process of the script and what it does.

I am waiting on a response from ToraTora! on how the last install went, and when I hear something back and am sure it is working properly... I will unleash it here. Sad to say that support will be a little slim for the next couple of weeks.. but if you email me or private message me I will surely get back to you with a response.

It will be posted as is, 1 upload form... for now.

Here is some explanation on how it works. For the most part it is stand alone, there is some slight modifications into the member.php file. Mostly for the profle.

I have made it where I have made up a demo template of the getinfo template so that you can use.. or you can just insert the two variables that I outlined in the instructions. There is a installation script that will update the database, then there is an html page (requested over text by Tora) for the modifications and templates.

There is a lot of main variables that can be customized to change the color and feel of the upload script to fit everyone's needs. There is some folder changes that need to be made through the script, I went ahead and commented on everything so that you have a basic grasp of what every single function or if statement is doing so if you do customization it can be easier.

It will take the picture that is selected by the user, it will rename it to whatever your custom naming scheme is, then it will upload the file to a selected folder on the server, and will put the name of the file into the database. I did not want to go the blob route so I thought adding the image to the server would be better. (personal opinion). You can also add a description during upload of the file, or you can change the description at a later time without harming the picture, the user can also delete the picture if they do not want to have one on file with the site.

I have added functions for errors, and I tried to cover every base on that part, to large of file size, height, weight... wrong file type, etc.. right now I have made it for just allowing jpg file format, but you can add gif or whatever, if this is really need then please tell me before I release it so I can add in the commented code for adding that.

See some of these ideas were created by me on what I would like to see in a script, after that I thought about what the uses and usefull ness could be and added in more stuff along those lines. See that is why I want feedback on how I should approach the final beta version so I can release it and make people happy with out a lot more time on my side doing feature changes or additions... I am sure everyone understands.

look you little goof, we are nice enough to tell you we have hacks in development for users like you, and then if we feel for any reason we don't want to release them, then thats out choice. Don't complain because you 30 member board isnt going to get a picture upload script! Plus go ahead and make your own, because you have no right to bitch at us until you have somthing to back up bit mouth. Were trying to help users here, least you could do is show some respect.

we are not hanging hacks over peoples heads here. We just like the simple idea, of giving people what they want rite away, instead of dicking around piece by piece.
The simple fact of the matter is, if we were going based on a popularity contest, we could just go by the number of times each of the screen shots have been looked at now couldnt we?
There is more than enough interest there, BUT, if people do not post any interest to the hacks, than we either keep them as is, and send them to the people that expressed interest, or if people dont reply to the thread, than it looks like.."well...it sounded good..but the hacks look like ****"...this is not a welfare thread.
We just wanted opinions, and suggestions, and somewhat of a amount of replies to determine if the hacks were satisfactory just the way they were, or if they needed something more.

Basically, we either did one hell of a job, and nobody is saying anything but the person who feels we are playing "hang em high"
Or...we did such a **** assed job, that nobody felt compelled to comment on what we worked and tested for weeks on.

By the way...this open source you guys keep talking about is fricken hillarious. 600.00 for a picture gallery?...yeh...lets spread the love shall we? Oh, not to mention a poll script which had a varying cost of....500-1200.00....hmmm..a poll script running for 1200.00....tell you what...if that is open source, than we all got a hell of a deal from vbulletin when they added the polls into the software. They could raise the price of this software to 400.00, and we all could feel better about the fact, we didnt have to pay 500-1,2000 for a "open source" poll script..

i love all your ides for the hacks i cant wait untill u release them and i do respect you for what your doing your great man.

I went through all the posts in this thread and I can't seem to find any info on this "picture upload script" Can somebody please tell me what it does and why I might need it?

I have an entire forum dedicated to (Bootay) picture upload and this could be what I have been looking for, but I can see any info on what it actually is/does.

Thanks.

it allows users to upload pictures of theselfs for there profile

oh. :( Not what I was looking for. Well while I'm here, anybody know of a hack that allows you to attach multiple files to one post? I would really love this hack. Just figured I would ask, I will probably ask in the main forum in a while. :\

how can we have the hacks ?

you wait

with brads script, (and this is only up to brad, because we have discussed this) since it is his hack, the idea of a five stage uploader had been brought up. The hack i created on a side project worked with Brads, and thus, allowed users to upload 5 pics at a time, and only five. when the user wanted to add a new pic, all he/she had to do, is check from a db query the pic that he wanted to edit, and than update. Once the five pics were uploaded, there would be nothing more than updating from that point on. No deleting, nothing. Plain, simple, if} and {elsed} from one end to the other, and secure with Freddies suggestions of renaming the files.

But, one has to remember something, and a point why vb did not add it in to begin with..is that with pics, they can be server hogs, and if you have 5 pics...things can be a bit server demanding propping up 5 pics for every user...especially for the big sites...i mean...lets say the site has 3,000 members on it...that is 15,000 pics in a stored folder that basically grind your site to a halt everytime a person takes a look at a profile page, or uploads some more...lol..
So...naturally we scrapped the idea, but there are variables as Brad stated, that can be changed, and fitted to your sites needs.
Copy a code here, change a variable there, and whoola...multi uploader. :)

Hi finally back after my second job ended today..

as for what you are wanting.. are you just wanting a script where users can upload photos.. hasn't there already been a hack for that.. where people can post their pictures and they are put into a gallery...

My script can be used in a lot of different ways and has numerous ideas if you want to try it out.

For the basics, like I stated above.. it puts the file (picture) into a folder on the server, and then puts the name of the file in the database in a certain feild. ok.. well this does not have to exactly be used in just the profile.. all you have to do.. anywhere you want is called that field name like lets say $userinfo[picture_name] for one of the pictures... well using that and the img html code, you can pull the picture up anywhere at anytime.. I had the idea of having a random picture show up on my index page, and maybe more from there..

Just whatever you want to do that is not totally intended for the main part of the release will be a lot of code adjustments

Not putting down snyx or you JohnV, I appreciate your comments, although they were not good.. hehe, after I made my first posts.. I started thinking about all of the complaining that I have done in different situations.. and on different occasions.. and seen how it has helped.. well sometimes.

I mean some of the wording used was kind of childish in a way.. I mean if you want to bring in some physcology, it kind of puts everyone that the words were directed to.. kind of become offending or put up a wall.. of defense.. so tis why.. you get some replies like mine, snyx, or tora's :)

Tora, knows this.. at times he don't believe me but he knows it.. I am VERY NEW to programming.. I took 2 college classes last semester and the semester before that with C and C++.. so I thought it can't be that damn hard :)

So... I am learning to code better and make things function better... plus I will have a couple of books arriving soon (in a couple of days hopefully) that will really help me learn the proper way of coding :)

whoohoo books.. ! I hate to read, but... ya know might as well get as much done before I get out of college.

The basic premise of someone pissing on a thread of opinion or interest has never impressed me a great deal. If people choose to act like children, they will get spanked like children.

If one decides to come in with some suggestions to idea, or implementations to the existing product, I am eager to listen. Vb was not built in one day, nor was VBPortal.
Many ideas to vb has been through thier great ability to listen to the customer. Even though our hacks are small in comparison to many of the great hacks distributed here, we feel it necessary to listen to those suggestions, and document, test, and insert those ideas the best we can. That can mean everything to the graphics, the overall visual standpoints, the actuall functions, or the actual script itself.

This was not a popularity contest, nor a thread to disearn those who were truely interested. I just find it odd, that out of close to 200 views on certain areas of the hacks, we only have a few people that truely showed enough interest to post thier thoughts.

Now, in the business world, you are taught to kiss everyones ass even if they think your product is less than substandard. Try and try as you might to please that customer with everything but the actual product is the nature of the business world. Everything from customer service, to wine and dine extravogant expense to try and get this person to buy what your selling, even though the product in a nutshell sucks.

With us, it is the opposite. Give a quality product that has been tested, documented, tested, more functionality added, than tested again, to give the user the desired results they want and expect, with no kissing ass to go with it.

p.s. Brad is lying his ass off....lol....the guy knows his shi*, no doubt about it.

BradC, I don't know. I really just want the function of users to be able to upload multiple pictures at a time without having to create an entirely new post. I did a search for the photo album and that isn't really what I am looking for. Maybe it will just be easier for me to explain what I am using it for then you can maybe help mebetter. :)

My entire site is dedicated to forumz (http://www.TheForumz.com) and out of all the forumz, I created one that is Bootay (pictures of women showing their best*no nudity though*) :D The visitors of the forumz can come to that forum and can post new pictures of babes wearing close to nothing. They use the attachment feature to upload, but when they want to upload more than one picture, they have to keep creating posts. So there it is. My idea, is if they could add an attachment to a list (almost like an attachment on an email) and add more files to the list before they hit Submit reply.

That's what I'm looking for. Can/do you know of a hack that will do this? If you have any other ideas on how I could still accomplish this, Im open to suggestions.

Thanks in advance. :) BTW come and visit us at http://www.TheForumz.com (all you have to do is register and then you can see the bootay forum. :D Since I know that's what you want. :)

speaking for myself and not for brad, you might as well move your post to the request section, cuz from now on Im only contributing to hacks I WANT! None of the custom 2-3 users junk, if you want a hack, and can't back up 20+ people using it, you might as well write it yourself!

snyx
(again speaking for myself here, not brad or tora)

Gutspiller,

ok.. in my understanding.. you are allowing members to post pictures of their bootay's or others... which is a great idea... my friend wanted me to add babe of the day or week to one of my sites lmao..

but anyways.. how about having a simple photo script.. that is not completly attached to your forums.. maybe located on your index page.. that has a link to it, or post a link wherever to the photo gallery... I am sure it would be possible for allowing members to upload numerous amounts of photos to be shown in there... I mean unless you want it to be shown in the posts.. which that would be modifying the vb code to allow more than one attachment to posts.. I think.. but that would be some coding..

see it all depends on what you exactly you want.. as to what can be done.. I mean the way I have it, you can access the upload script through your user control panel.. which can be the same.. they go there and upload a photo.. upload another.. etc etc.. maybe making an a page that is an array and will show off all of the pictures you have uploaded... and then the main part will be located in a script, that will make thumbnails of the pictures, and then will show the full size image once clicked on.. dunno.

as for Tora.. I know 10% of php.. 15% html and the rest amounts to a lot of dumb founded luck.

I have more than 20 people on my forum. Does that count? :D

Well that just sucks. I guess I will just have to live with it. :( At least my forum will have tonz of posts. :D

Snyx.. that is your god given right to do what you wish and.. everything :)

We both know we understand each other on different things like this.. hehe

I personally would LOVE to fill each and every request that is made.. or will be made.. but I don't have the time, nor do I have any talent in doing this... maybe after I get a book *cough* and learn what exactly some of these functions do.. I can help out more.. but at times... like I have stated *cough* you know where snyx.. it gets frustrating.. and you just want to do what you want to do and no more.. it would be different it this was a full time job.. kind of thing..

You should really take care of that cough before it gets worst. :D

I know.. I just turned 21.. so I am drinking.. damned if it makes me cough.. hehe :)

and ya you will have a lot of posts.. which is good.. YOU HAVE ACTIVITY! :)

well, part of the hack that was added to brads set up, was of course a thumbnail gallery, that displayed the full pic when clicked. Each user could have thier own little gallery if you wanted it as so...wouldnt take a whole lot i guess...but, that is up to brad, and his alcoholic tendancies...:D

hey ToraTora!ToraTora! ... d am y ou n eed t oo s horten y our n ick b ud.. :)

we have ran through this photo gallery before.. remember tora.. back in the day lol.. what 2 or 3 weeks ago? It is possible.. but that would be an addition like stated or a whole different script.. with a different approach :)

yeh...good times they were...lol...it will work now that the pesky problem has been eliminated...and if it dont, well damn it...cant say we didnt try...nah..it should work...:)

i like the size of my nick...so does the girlyfreind....:D

Brad don't drink, you will become a 21 year old me :p

yah don't want to become a 21 year old you.. lol

Tora I seen a book the other day called "ToraToraTora!" that was wierd.. lol

I am everywhere...lol...

toratora is a old b-52 warplane, a song, a defunct band, and a few other things. :)

The mood hack will be near completion when I run through the install for the last time tonight.. if it all goes well with no major or minor problems.. then it will for the most part be ready for completion.. and then the documentation will be completed... :)

kool i cant wait for it thanks for all your time and effort on making these hacks.

we have a graphics package courtesy of snyx that will go with some of the extra areas such as the online message status..
(users while choosing a mood, can leave a message showing sort of like a yahoo, or aol set up...letting people know what they are up to...nothing to wild or spectacular, but none the less..informative if anything..lol..)

some extra smilies and such, so given the time frame, she should look pretty sweet all polished up. :)

as far as the upload goes, i will run through it tonight and tomorrow, with a fresh install to see if everything is rite on track.
From there on, it should be ready to roll...:)

Tora, just email me what you find.. or if you have any problems... I will add a few things that was mentioned as requests.. thanks to a few individuals..

like date and time.. the option to upload gif also.. and re-write the error message function..

I re-wrote the error message function to include what the file types that can be uploaded are.. which you set by puttin them in a variable.. I also wrote comments on how to do this.

Just have to uncomment the gif part so that it will work.

Umm since I am at work.. I am not really for sure how to do the date and time without a lot of trial an error.. there is a like a mktime function or something for php.. that I think might work.. but not for sure.