Attachments

Has anyone been working on the attachments hack???

Our board would not have made the switch without having an image-upload feature. Our Image Gallery is twice as popular as any other forum we have.

If I'm not mistaken, the author of our image hack (Herb/NL420) said he will release it when he's finished with the admin part. He wants to make sure the images are deleted if you remove the post, etc.

He's also still catching different browser's methods of forming the headers.. for instance any IE over version 4 calls em "pjpegs" instead of just "jpegs".. Also I think he fixed Opera 4.02 parsing yesterday.

Few days and we'll get it out..! Got another cool one coming down the pipeline too (besides Kill File)

Attachment hack? Can someone explain to me how it works exactly?

Our Image Gallery... allows users to attach GIF or JPG files to their post. The hack checks the headers to make sure it's the proper format and also limits the size of the file that can be uploaded. It then takes the image they uploaded and places it in their post.

Another way to do the attachments would have it accept any format and simply write it to the server drive and provide a link-- this way people could exchange zip files, docs, etc. For us, all we need are images

@ Overgrow

sorry but i dont find your hack ... where can i get it??

Originally posted by Me2Be
Me? No, never. Just female.

Hey, I can't think of switching my big board over until I get it so I wanted to see if anyone else was working on it. Okay, so yes, I'm impatient!

[Edited by Me2Be on 07-11-2000 at 03:12 PM]

Dose this mean it uses your space or is it direct linked from somewhere else?

The Image Upload hack was written by our other sysadmin "Herb" .. thats probably why you couldn't find it. I bumped it up to the top of the message list so it's easy to spot.

vBoard.co.uk: It uses space on your server, that way people don't have to upload their images on Geocities or Xdrive and reference it. Makes it much easier for the users.