hey thanks for your help...although it's not quite fully working yet
now on the page is it just showing the url once...without the filename attached.
this is the current upload_ishere
PHP Code:
<tr><td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="2"><normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}" class="thtcolor"><a href="$shorturl/$picname">$shorturl/$picname[uploadname]</a></normalfont></td></tr>
this is the template which is the index for the hack...i apologize for it being long but it is the full thing incase there is an issue with it
PHP Code:
{htmldoctype}
<html>
<head>
<title>$bbtitle - $username's Picture Upload</title>
$headinclude
</head>
</html>
<body>
$header
<!-- breadcrumb -->
<table bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" class="bordert" border="0" width="{tablewidth}" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
<td><img src="{imagesfolder}/vb_bullet.gif" align="middle" alt="vBulletin">
<normalfont><b><a href="index.php?s=$session[sessionhash]">$bbtitle</a> >
Photo upload for $bbuserinfo[username]</b></normalfont></td>
<td align="right">$forumjump</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /breadcrumb -->
<br>
$cpnav
<br>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="test.php" method="post">
<table cellpadding="{tableouterborderwidth}" cellspacing="0" border="0" bgcolor="{tablebordercolor}" {tableouterextra} width="{contenttablewidth}" align="center"><tr><td>
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="{tableinnerborderwidth}" border="0" {tableinnerextra} width="100%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{tableheadbgcolor}" colspan="2"><normalfont color="{tableheadtextcolor}" class="thtcolor"><b>Upload - $bbuserinfo[username]</b></normalfont></td>
</tr>
$upload_bits
<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Upload:</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><input name="userfile" type="file"></normalfont>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<br>
<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{contenttablewidth}" {tableinvisibleextra} align="center">
<tr>
<td align="center"><normalfont>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="upload">
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</normalfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
$footer
</body>
</html>
thanks for all your help