Major Mod

[wolfe]

i am currently working on a major mod that allows a different new thread interface which allows me to add links and when i add links it automatically grabs the info from the site link and an image.

i also want it to allow me to link to files or upload files without going through the manage attachment system i mean a table of its own

i also want it to be able to change the file uploaded to zip/rar/gzip files so there smaller

and it also needs to be able to read the uploaded file and list its contents can anyone help me with any of the above requests.

[harmor19]

i am currently working on a major mod that allows a different new thread interface which allows me to add links and when i add links it automatically grabs the info from the site link and an image.

There's a hack called "vBulletin Directory" (I'm not sure about the name) that will get a screenshot of the site.

i also want it to allow me to link to files or upload files without going through the manage attachment system i mean a table of its own

Good luck with that one.

i also want it to be able to change the file uploaded to zip/rar/gzip files so there smaller

I think you'd use exec()

and it also needs to be able to read the uploaded file and list its contents can anyone help me with any of the above requests.

I highly doubt that's possible.

gosh, harlor19, stop answering when you don't know, the guy will flee

1- template edition and there is some tool on the web that grab the site image when you indicate the url in the query... i don't remember it, but it is popular... so it is easy to grab the urls from a post and then parse the url with that technique

2- something like an external file uploader would do the trick... because using the attachment manager is easy... what is your problem with the attachment manager here?! we can fix it maybe

3- adding a process to zip all attachments that are not images is possible... and easy with a plugin

4- reading specific files is quite easy... once they are stored, they are readable in many ways... Torrent trackers use that for the .torrent files... and the .nfo files... i think we have a hack here that do the .nfo files... you can mimic it... don't know the name anyway

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by nexialys

4- reading specific files is quite easy... once they are stored, they are readable in many ways... Torrent trackers use that for the .torrent files... and the .nfo files... i think we have a hack here that do the .nfo files... you can mimic it... don't know the name anyway

Yep, I was gonna say that we do this on our site. We read the torrent file and spit out the contents of the torrent in the announce thread. So, it is possible, you just have to know the format of the file you are reading and then spit out the contents knowing that.