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This hack is simple and pretty easy to install.

What's it do?
Ya' know that little paperclip icon you see next to thread links containing attachments? Well, this hack makes that icon clickable. Clicking on it will give you the normal thread view and page navigation and all that, except you'll only see the posts with attachments in them. I find this particularly useful if you have a few threads where, say, members post their pictures. It's nice to cut through a lot of the comments and get straight to the files.


What's it involve?
7 code changes in 2 files. No template work of any sort.


Got a demo?
Surely: Demo...yay.


The attached instructions.txt file will walk you through things. Enjoy; and let me know if you find any bugs, as I haven't tested this on any board but my own yet.

Very useful !!!
I'll use ASAP.... but FireFly, please install it here too so everybody could get rid of those long and rich-of-attachments thread in this hack forum !

Thanks a lot

Excellent idea Chris. :) Will install this right away...

Works great, good job.

Very very useful...

Just a NON-problem, better a constatation, with another hack:
when I use the 'attach' ikon and only posts with attachments are displayed, post shown are numbered (Post #X hack) in a relative way, of course... I.e. they don't refer to the original post sequence in thread.
As said, just a point out...
;)

Thanks again, to both (now!)

Oh, do you mean with the post counter/direct link hack? Hmmm, I haven't looked at that one in any sort of significant detail...but I imagine, to keep their original numbers and such, I'd have to either give up the page navigation the way it is (so that it'd refer to the original thread including non-attachment posts), or I'd have to stick another query in there somewhere. I'm not sure.

Anyway, glad you like it, guys. :) I remember thinking of it and then wondering why I hadn't before. Hand it to my members, though, for asking for an easy way to access the attachments. :)

Of course.... I was first liked this hack ! ;)
Just a think I noticed... that's all.
Thanks

Small update to this: the original hack doesn't turn the paperclip image on the search results page into a clickable link the way it does for the one on the forumdisplay. This is easily corrected. Find this around line 970-something in you search.php file:

...and replace it with this...
That should do it. :) Take the asterisks out, however, from the {*imagesfolder*} part -- I had to add them in there, or this forum would process them as vB.org's image folder location.

how can make this hack work with v2.01.

i couldnt find the code below (in showtheard.php):
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$pagenav = getpagenav($totalposts,"showthread.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&threadid=$threadid&perpage=$perpage");
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If I were I would forget about this hack and upgrade to 2.2.5 ASAP. I don't know how to say this so you will listen, this is very important and 2.0.1 is highly exploitable.