What's up with the Multiple Attachments Hack!?

[cessna140]

Well, what board would that be and where did he get the hack???

[Neo]

Right... just wait for VB3

[dabean]

Not sure if anyone has pointed out the history of this hack or not and too lazy to read the whole thread.

As far as I remeber the general rumors from jellsoft that such a feature will be part of vB3 may have scared anyone else (other than the mentioned paid hack) from bothering to write such a hack, considering a upgrade script might be needed as/when vB3 appears.

[Neo]

And if its on in vb3 I will get in another argument with freddie about it

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by cessna140
Well, what board would that be and where did he get the hack???

Uh...maybe he wrote it himself. People aren't required to release theirs hacks, you know.

[Neo]

THEY ARNT!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!!

[tubedogg]

lol neo

[cessna140]

my friends board already has multiple attachments

That's nice, just not very meaningful or helpful though. Not trying to start anything here but what was the purpose of NerdNations post? All I was asking for with my reply was more information to an otherwise useless post. After all, why tell us that the hack apparently exists and then not tell us where to get it or if it is even available? Fine if the author doesn't want to release it, no one is forcing him to. Perhaps NerdNations doesn't have the answers to those questions. If that were the case, how easy would it have been just to say that in the first place or better yet why post at all? It added nothing to the discussion and didn't get us any closer to getting the hack done.

Maybe I am missing something here but I thought the point of posting here was to get help? To find a hacker ready, willing and able to write a multiple attachment hack. Correct me if I am wrong but afterall, this is the purpose of the "Requests" forum, correct? Not to find all the hackers that don't want to do a hack or all the potential reasons for not doing a hack.

It appears that neo is feeling a little sensitive since he volunteered to give it a go at some point and then withdrew, for whatever reason. Hey neo, it's Ok, really. No problem, no harm, no foul, no explanation necessary. It's certainly your prerogative not to do it. Move on buddy.

Next. Anyone else want to give it a go?

As has been stated before, with as many times as it has been requested it appears this would be a useful hack. However, since this apparently has only been done and released as a paid hack, this must be a very difficult hack, which is perhaps beyond the reach of many hackers here?

On the other hand, as dabean pointed out, I realize with the impending release of vB3 and the rumors that it is supposed to have multiple attachment support, this may make it not worth doing by some, and that is Ok. But what if we don't want to wait (several months?) for the vB3 release or perhaps don't want to upgrade when it comes out? What then?

And what is this all about? How did any of this contribute to the thread?

Uh...maybe he wrote it himself. People aren't required to release theirs hacks, you know.

THEY ARNT!!!! WHAT THE HELL!!!

lol neo

Really? Duh! However, tubedogg seems a little confused, I haven't seen where anyone has "demanded" anything here or "required" that hackers release their hacks. Nope, just trying to get some useful information posted here with the ultimate goal of getting this hack done. So if you are NOT interested, no response is necessary. Thanks anyway.

[tubedogg]

I personally refuse to do it because of your attitude. You certainly have acted like you are somehow entitled to it or some great injustice has been done to you because no one has made this hack available for free.

Ok, how come no one has done the multiple attachment hack?

Is it too difficult for you super hackers to do???

Insulting people's intelligence and acting like we owe you something isn't going to help. The thread isn't your personal property, others are allowed to post in it.

[Scott MacVicar]

I've done alot of work with attachments especially how they work and the code would be relatively simple to get multiple attachments in the database, its getting showthread.php to behave itself and deal with multiple attachments properly and I also think the moderation panel will have a problem with moderating attachments, the attachmentid within post will have to have to have the id's seperated by commas or some other delimiter.

we do now how to do it, just your tone doesnt make it worth our while as we're not going to get any appreciation.