This hack enables you to send attachments in a private message. This feature was really useful to me in vb2 and I kind of missed it on vb3 so I rehacked it myself.
When a user writes a private message they will be given the option to add an attachment, the same as when writing a post. It uses the same rules you have defined for a convencional attachment including file types, quotas, etc. It is only an extension for attachments to be used in private messages.
As always it is advised to backup your files before hacking in case you want to go back, this is some big hack including modification of multiple files, some templates and adding two extra columns in the database tables.
Instructions are provided in the txt, and some screenshots on where the attachment option appears.
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You may modify, improve, upgrade, redistribute this hack, include it
in another hack or yours or translate it provided you do it free of
charge and you distribute it in www.vbulletin.org at least, there is no
need to pm me asking for permission
Some portions of the code are (c) Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Edit by MarcoH64:
Because of multiple requests to make this hack work on vB3.0.7 i created upgrade instructions. These upgrade instructions can be followed after the original instructions (the 3.0.3 version). The original coder can not be held responsible for my modification.
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How about automatically deleting the attachment(s) when the recipient actually DELETES the PM? That seems logical, since you wouldn't want orphaned attachments hogging your quota. That would be a waste of space and DB optimization.
I've installed the hack on 3/1/04 and everything seems to be working fine, except some little bug, where I'll describe in a new post!
The attachment is automatically deleted when it belongs to no more recipients. There are no orphaned attachments. They are done with the hourly cleanup and that was the reason to modify one of the cron jobs.
Please keep in mind that if you save a copy in your sent folder that counts as a pm, so the attachment wouldn't be deleted until both the recipient's pm and your copy of the pm are deleted.
It is the first time I have seen that "No post defined" error... do you have any other hack that deals with pm's or attachments installed?
No, I do not. Your hack is the only one I've installed at all. I went back and double checked everything. However, when I get down to the SQL, I did have problems running those. I ran each individually and it did create the three tables. Though the ALTER TABLE attachment add index (private) query gave me problems though, but I eventually did create the table manually.
ok, BIG problem...... I just found out that someone can easily go to your attachment.php page in the browser and just browse through attachments! they can do this by:
Is there a way you can re-release this hack and change the way vBulletin handles attachments? I would suggest md5summing the attachment upon upload and assigning the checksum as the attachment ID. I certainly don't want someone browsing through my members' private attachments!!!
ok, BIG problem...... I just found out that someone can easily go to your attachment.php page in the browser and just browse through attachments! they can do this by:
Is there a way you can re-release this hack and change the way vBulletin handles attachments? I would suggest md5summing the attachment upon upload and assigning the checksum as the attachment ID. I certainly don't want someone browsing through my members' private attachments!!!
There is already functionality for this. Another member cannot see an attachment that he doesn't own. They get a permission denied screen. Even if they start browsing the attachments. If the attachment is private sender and recipients are the only ones allowed to see it.
is there going to be a new release for vb3 gold? I just did a clean install and am having serious problems with it... there was a lot of code rewrites in the new version, and none of the strings match
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03-02-2004, 10:34 AM
