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

[Courage]

On a new vb 2.3.0 all is working OK, but

If I attach a file, then edit and add a new attachement, on my ftp i can see 2 files. The old file is not deleted !

[Courage]

It seems that suport for 2.3.0 is missing

[rake]

Scott missed adding removeattachment() in a few places in editpost.php

[Courage]

@rake

Solutions ?

[angelo70]

The user who uses the Advanced Attachmentbox v1.0
HACK:

functions.php
FIND:
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO attachment (attachmentid,userid,dateline,filename,visible,has h) VALUES (NULL,$bbuserinfo[userid],".time().",'".addslashes($attachment_name)."','$v isible','$attachment_hash')");

and replace it with:
$DB_site->query("INSERT INTO attachment (attachmentid,userid,dateline,filename,filedata,visible,hash) VALUES (NULL,$bbuserinfo[userid],".time().",'".addslashes($attachment_name)."','$filesize','$visible','$attachment_hash')");


Open Showthread.php
Search for this (2 times on a unhacked vB, Line 55 , 410):
attachment.counter

and replace it with:
attachment.counter,attachment.filedata AS attachsize

displays the filesize of the attachments

[Intex]

Is it possible to get an explanation of what happens during the installation process. Obviously files are going to get saved as attachments, but it doesn't say anything other than that on the thread or instructions. Specifically it would be good to know:

1. Does this apply to attachments from once this hack is installed
2. If it does go through the database and store them as files, how do you control where they go?
3. How are these linked

Thanks for any help.

[rake]

1. Yes. Attachment are ported during the installation process.
2 and 3. Only the [data] is stored in files. Other information related to attachments is still stored in the database.

[Intex]

Thx for the reply rake. However, can you specify what folder these attachment files are stored upon installation / after installation?

[minder]

just installed it on my 230 board with no problems thanks for a great hack

rob

[Tim Wheatley]

04-05-03 at 10:42 AM Scott MacVicar said this in Post #302
and there has been 2 users who upgraded to vB3 as well as using this hack, I provided a script to do so and you only need vB 2.2.9 to upgrade to vB3.

Any news on this for the beta 3?