Search/Browse Attachments Across All Forums

A little something I whipped up for one of our busier sites, which has several thousand image attachments.

Basically, it allows you to perform searches for attachments across your forums, or just a single forum, by username. You can also sort by date posted, forum it was posted in, thread title, or the attachment filename.

This is a rewrite from the initial version. Due to popular demand, it now uses the vB template system. Yes, Virginia, including your headers and footers. It also uses attachment icons now - kind of a nice touch.

To install, copy attachment_browser.php to your main forums directory. Then, you'll need to create 3 templates:

• attachment_browser_search_form
• attachment_browser_results
• attachment_browser_result_bits

A sample .SQL file is included with the distribution. To create the templates using this file, simply run it through the mysql client as follows:

/path/to/mysql -u user -ppassword db_name template < attachment_browser_templates.sql

Enjoy.

Cheers.
Scott

[incursio]

Here's the file:

Cheers.
Scott

[squawell]

any screenshot?? or something can make this hack clear~~

[over]

very useful hack thanks

[incursio]

It isn't a hack - and no screenshots, you can see a vanilla example (no header, and a simple footer) here though:

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/browse_attach.php

Search for "scottb" for an example.

Cheers.
Scott

[squawell]

oh~~~it's great !!

nice work !!

[Admin]

I would use it but it's not template driven...
Is it supposed to be something external to the forum?

[FWC]

Originally posted by FireFly
I would use it but it's not template driven...
Is it supposed to be something external to the forum?

It's pretty cool. I modified it to require config.php instead of having the database info in the file. But, I do need to get it to call the header and footer from my forums. Right now I'm using the includes from our home page.

[incursio]

Getting it to use the headers/footers from the forums is a simple SELECT from the database. I'll post something tomorrow - going to bed now.

With regard to the look and feel of the actual results - you can simply customize the HTML in the script to do what you want.

Cheers.
Scott

[Admin]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by incursio
With regard to the look and feel of the actual results - you can simply customize the HTML in the script to do what you want.