For the basic service, it is one image per email. The premium service allows for up to 7 megs of images per email. Thanks for checking out the plugin!

Just to clarify- it's 99 emails per month for free. Each with one image attached.

Hey folks with all due respect this is cool, but unfortunately members on the road and out an about like my members never know when they'll want to upload an image and a caption.

what you guys really need to do is to allow people to simply get registered on the forum to upload images and then allow them to upload images to their gallery. I would pay for this because it will spur more usage of my forum. My members constantly upload pictures to their facebook accounts and I'd pay a monthly fee to allow them to do the same thing on my forum.

You could use your current backend to send authorization messages to the phone (from a new link on the control panel you'd create) and once registered they'd be free to upload.

You'd simply link the auth message to their userid on the forum like you're doing now but not have to worry about the threadid like you do now.

trust me guys when I tell you that I know how to make money and this would be gang busters.

I'll even test it for you.

Jeff

I've been testing the mod out and it's been great! Now, I'm opening it up for my moderators and admins for phase 2 of the testing process and ease of use. We're setting up a thread on the site in order for folks to be able to follow the process properly and avoid issues as well :)

Myself and one of our moderators will be using it to update our members as we take a trip through Walt Disney World in a couple of weeks! :up:

Exciting progress- let us know if we can help in any way!

I am not sure I understand why someone would need roaming capability to upload to their gallery versus a thread? Is your forum set up in a way that people get updates on gallery images in real time? Threads and posts are usually where people see images and where members want the ability to be able to post images to share....like they do on Facebook. If they are just adding to their albums then what is the need for real-time capability?

That said, it would not be too hard for us to fix this issue by having the uploads go straight to a members gallery instead of a a separate roaming upload folder on your site. PM me details about your forum and gallery software and maybe we can try it out for you.

if you don't get it - I suggest you take a look at a little website that allows people to upload images and not attach them to threads...they simply go into someone's album.

oh - and by the way - they're very successful and people love the feature

it's called

FACEBOOK

I'm not trying to be facetious but IMHO the reasons are self-evident for a feature like this.

My members are very mobile and love to post pictures and my members spend hours looking at other people's pictures and the more pages that get served the more ads I can and serve and the more ads I can server the money money I make.

:)

ps: It's not about 'real time' it's all about convenience and making it easy for people to add content to your website....

at least easier than all of your competitors!!!!!

Sounds like you know what you want- best of luck.

yes I do.

I just released it today.

I went a different route and gave my users a special email address to send photoS to.

I say "photo" because some providers including Verizon wind up appending a different TLD for MMS as opposed to SMS. Once the photo email is received I send them a reply with their Mobile Device Email Address (IN CASE THEY DON'T KNOW IT AND MOST DO NOT) and I've added a user profile field where they can enter their Mobile Device email address field. This links their uploads to the forum account.

In all it took me about 3 days of coding and this included all of the necessary table inserts and updates to add the photos to albums, picture table, albumupdate etc along with the standard code to protect against sql injection via the text that may accompany a picture, resizing and thumbnail creation. I also interrogate the actual image uploaded to protect against "exe's" masquerading as images to protect against hackers, root kits etc.

To my knowledge no one else is doing this with VB and Ive had over 300 people signup today after I announced the release this morning.

When combined with the mod that allows album pics to be selected and inserted into posts I think it's a great solution.

:)

I just realized that I hadn't updated to the 1.0.1 version.

Did I need to do anything other than the roaming.php change? Should I import the xml as well?

Uploaded to the 1.0.2 version and it's working perfectly now! :)

Thanks guys! :up: