Attachments as files

Well after alot of time leaving it in the beta hacks forums without any problems, I'm now moving it to the Full Releases, I'm satisfied that there isn't any bugs that need to be addressed. Thanks to Jawelin he pointed out most of the mistakes through alot of his testing.
I've attached it as an installer file here, as it needs to make changes to the database. Two new rows to settings and a new column in the attachment table.

Scott

Updated some more

Note the > is missing off the bottom of the file after the ?, add it before trying to install

[Scott MacVicar]

yeah you done alot of help when it was in beta

I'll go modify my evergrowing sig

[Wayne2k1.com]

Great.

Works perfectly

[mvigod]

does this still work "as is" in 2.2.1 or do I need to take away that visible code?

I have so many hacks it would take forever to upgrade to 2.2.2 so I'm stuck at 2.2.1 until 3.0 maybe where alot of these hacks might already be in that version hopefully.

Would love to shrink my database with this hack.

[Scott MacVicar]

you can leave the visible in, it won't have any effect on the hack just selecting it from the table.

If you want to upgrade from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2, I have posted a changes in all the files so you can upgrade to 2.2.2 just by applying all the changes instead of apply all the hacks again.

[Destee]

Hello PPN ... it's not working for me. I've loaded/unloaded 4 times and can't see what I'm doing wrong. Let me start at the beginning ...

1. This is on a test forum, upgraded to 2.2.2 fine. Then I installed the hack. First error I encountered was when I tried to run step 8, importer. I rec'd the following error(s):

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in
/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/admin/att
achment_install.php on line 333

Imported common1.jpg

I moved on because it's not (absolutely) necessary that those files be imported.

2. Uploaded a few files (.wav) successfully. They are in the newly created attachments directory, but when I try to view them I receive the following errors:

Warning: open_basedir restriction in effect. File is in wrong directory in
/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 61

Warning: fopen("/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/attachments/8f3f831e0564790a88584703c352883f.file","rb") - Operation not permitted in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 61

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 62

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 63

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 64

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 65

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 66

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 67

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 68

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php:61) in /usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/prettyblackgirl.com/httpdocs/forums/attachment.php on line 80

These errors are given even when trying to view attachments that were in the forum prior to installing the hack.

3. I am able to upload .wav files but not .gif or .jpg. I was able to upload/view all attachments prior to installing the hack. When I try to upload a .gif or .jpg I get the following error:

The uploaded file is not a valid GIF or JPG file. Please ensure that it is and try again.

Like I said above, I've went through the process a few times but the errors remain. I'm running Plesk and the errors above are similar to some seen in the past and corrected back then too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Destee

[Vivi Ornitier]

ummm .. . can someone PLEASE upload like a text file with the SQL Queries in it cause the php file gets this parse error in line 344 and i'm not too good with php

Line 344:

echo "</table>\n";
echo "<br><br>\n";
echo gotostep(6,0,1);
}

// @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

It's the line between the } and the //@@@@@...

So yea, can somone please upload a text file of some sort? unless u can help me fix this error, i'm on 2.2.2

[Scott MacVicar]

Your problem with being unable to view files it due to the way your php is configured, I'll look into a solution for it now. The problem is simply that the script doesn't have permissions to read a file from a different directory.

Did you go to the admin panel and set the folder where attachments are to be stored and give it 666 permissions?

[Destee]

Hi PPN ... the answer above is for me, right? Thanks for responding. Yes the attachments path is in the CP. I had originally set the folder to chmod 777 but changed it to 666 after reading the above ... and am still receiving the errors.

Destee

[Vivi Ornitier]

which folder is attachments suppose to be stored? I don't see any folder in the FTP.

[Destee]

Vivi ... hope this helps ...

create a directory below your document root, if you can, this means if you login to ftp and you see a httpdocs, wwwroot, www or public_html folder this is below document root. Create a directory here and give it 777 permisions if you are on a unix server. You can call the folder whatever you want, i simply called it attachments. If you have to place it above document root then give it an obscure name such as att4chm3nt5.