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

[EzX5U]

hi
for anyone installed this hack..

can i choose where to enable or disable this feature in the forum?
can i allow mods or admin only to use it??

thx

waiting a reply..

[gmarik]

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[jjj0923]

in the for what it's worth department... I have been using this hack for almost a year now and no problems whatsoever...

[ErryLee]

:nervous:
Hello!

I hope someone can help me. At first: Sorry for my bad english, I´m a german user.

Version 2.3.4 (german)

I have installed the hack and everything is working fine. No error message at all.

>>>Import of Files from database completed

If you are sure that the files have been imported correctly you may drop the filedata column in the attachment table<<<

But in the folder is nothing importet. The attachment folder is empty and in the forum is no attachment left.

Thank you for help,
Soeren

[Slybone]

I hate to be the stupid one.... but this hack does what exactly?

[ErryLee]

Hi!

I did what the hack says to me:
At first I do the changes in the php files: attachment, editpost....

Then I make a folder "attachment" with stetting 777 and give the directory path in the admin control.

After that the hack imports the files in this folder.

But the folder is still empty.

Thanks
Soeren

[ErryLee]

No one can help me?? :disappointed:

[TranceMaster]

hi guys, got some problems here, im looking to uninstall this hack, but dont have a clue where to start.
but we really need it uninstalled, for now.

how do we go about doing so?

or how to do with it whilest upgrading to newest version

thanks in advance.

[bitbender]

Erry - You need to run the portion of the hack that copies the attachments across. If you have placed the remainder of the code properly, it will place any NEW ones posted as binary attachment files in there. If the folder is empty, then the copy from the Data Base wasn't done. This will also be painfully obvious, because any attachments will display only red x's too. If you are still seeing your attachments, well, something else is afoot. I'd review

Trance Master - As with any hack, you must reverse the changes to the code. How you get the attachments back into the data base is a seperate discussion. First, you will need to make sure your hosting allows for the increase in size of the DB, and then, you will need the attachment _upgrade.php mentioned earlier in this thread Here.

But that is only PART of the process. You will need to regress each part of the hack as it instructed you to apply it to all the php scripts, lest it will fail. Now, if I remember right, this was a very well documented one, so you can get a good visual of what needs to be replaced, becuse the hack tells you to look for this and replace it with that.

Good luck. I will be regressing mine when I go to vb3, as I have a ton of other hacked code thruought, and I am not changing any of mine, it's better to just go with it in the DB with vb3, and I have made it part of my conversion process

[highlander_RD]

I run vB 2.2.9 in my forum http://forum.egcommunity.it

This hack is *absolute necessary* as inserting the attachment files in a table field it's a madness. I actually hold in my forum about 15'000 image files that occupy ~400 MB. I followed the hack procedure as indicated in post #1 and I succeded to import tons of files in my new admin/attachment directory (chmod 777).

But... I got 2 problems:

1) when I read the attachment post (showthread.php), I cannot see anymore the preview image (I get the usual IE 6.0 broken image frame) whereas I can see, once clicked, the full size image in the popup page (so the attachment link works).
I tried to force a cache refresh by ctrl+F5 with no results.

2) I don't know if it depends on 3 previous attachments hacks:
-> the private attachments in PM hack (by Chen 'FireFly' Avinadav)
-> the admin CP browsing attachments hack (by Kevin https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=23692)
-> the "who downloaded" hack (by Chris Bowyer)

I know that it's maybe too late to get a help, but any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,