[kether1]

Here is an odd question: I would like to use this as the image gallery for my forum, but I would like to have the images that are hosted placed on my other URL on my server. For example if my forum address is www.example.com/forum - instead of having the 'imagehosting' folder inside /forum - I would like to put it on my other site - www.othersite.com/imagehosting - that is not a forum site at all (but would serve as the image hosting site.)

This way all the images would be stored at that site and have that URL instead of my forum's url.

Ok - why do I want to do this? There are a couple of reasons but the main one is that I want to be able to cache the images in the forum using the ImageCache hack. If the image comes from my forum url, then the ImageCache hack will not cache the image and if a user deletes an image from his album to make room for another,--- if that image was used in the forum, --- it then disappeares and leaves a blank or red x where the image used to be thus screwing up that particular thread in the forum.

I thought about just turning off the 'delete' permissions in this modification, but decided that would mean no one could ever change his or her gallery. - That would not be cool. My users have lots of photos and I am sure they would run out of space and start deleting to make room for more.

But I don't want to have missing images in the forum either, so I would like to have the image cached.

I like this hack very much, but cannot use it unless there is a way to store the images on my non-forum site.

Any idea how to do that?

Thanks,
K

BTW - (I installed this on my test forum and it works wonderfully in 3.7 - I sure hope to be able to install it on my real forum and click INSTALL here!)