Miscellaneous Hacks - Navbar Image Uploader (ShareFlurry.com)

Description:
This mod adds an image uploader drop-down link to the navbar so your users can upload images to a third party site and not have to use attachments if they want to post a picture online. This is a feature our users have loved since we first installed it over a year ago on vb 3.6.x.

I've now tested this with vb 4.0.0 PL1 and everything works exactly as desired...so I figured I would make it available it anyone is interested.


Installation:
Under your desired template, open up Navigation / Breadcrumb Templates then navbar.

These instructions will place the Image Uploader after the Calendar in the navbar:

search for

{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_after_calendar}

after that line, paste

<li class="popupmenu">
	<a href="javascript://" class="popupctrl">Image Uploader</a>
	<ul class="popupbody popuphover">
		{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_image_uploader_start}
			<li><IFRAME name=tool align=left src="http://www.shareflurry.com/vbupload.php" frameBorder=no width=260 scrolling=no height=130></IFRAME></li>
		{vb:raw template_hook.navbar_image_uploader_end}
	</ul>
</li>

You will have to do this twice to get the image uploader installed in all circumstances.


Example:
You can see this mod in action on our test site: http://tippingpitchers.com/vb4test/forum.php

(Apologies if things aren't working 100% correctly on that site...it is our sandbox for getting ready for the final vb4 migration. If you would like to see this mod and it's not working correctly at the url listed above, please PM me and I'll either fix it or update the url here to a working version of the mod.)


Full disclosure:
Yes, the image hosting site is owned by me, and the site itself does include ads....but there are no ads on the dropdown script, so there is no advertising included in this mod. Your users will simply upload an image from their computer, then get the bbcode to place the image in your forum.

[ndut]

nice.. thanks

[VonDoom]

Just let me know if you want the hosting scripts.

Yes Please

[ndut]

can i change to our image hosting??

to : http://images.meremmelek.net ???
thank you

[New Joe]

You can just up-load to a post right from your computer with vB 4 anyway.

[Dr.osamA]

taged

thanxxx
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AMATEUR EXPOSED

[johnrizz]

Very cool mod!! thnks!

[VonDoom]

Curious if you still intended to share the code so that we might be able to host these images on our own servers?

[chingon]

Very nice, one question though. Any chance you can add gif as an accepted format?

[VonDoom]

Thhis is not a supported hack witch is intresting since its using the authors server and therefore should be heavily supported. Because the external content is the authors responsability. i personally wouldnt trust my images on this revenue generating mod.

[johnrizz]

You got a good point vondoom!