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surfsteve
New Member
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 Posted - 26 June 2003 : 10:51:56
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I just put up a forum for my home town and I would like to find a way to make it easy for people to upload and post pictures.
What would be the best way? I'm thinking I should make some kind of FTP area but I don't know how to do it or where to start.
The alternative is to have them email me the pictures and I'll build a webpage but I would like to make it self service.
Most of the people that will be using this forum have just learned how to turn their computers on so it has to be simple for them.
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 11:48:41
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Well I didn't know where else to post it and I know that some forums like PHPBB have an area that allows you to upload pictures.
I hoped someone would give me a suggestion. Maybe there is already a mod available that I don't know about. Or maybe some sort of FTP could be built into future versions. |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 12:03:01
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| Yes but search for FTP brings up 6 pages of unrelated material. It would be nice if I knew what I should be searching for. |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 13:02:47
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Ok... on uploading pictures it talks about some mods for uploading files, but I don't want people to be able to upload any file only pictures. Besides I'd really rather not have to ad any mods because every time I do they never work. I will consider this as a last resort though.
I also noticed a photo gallery mod but the test page for it doesn't even work so I'm afraid to use that.
What I'd rather do is have a program that I can upload to my web page somewhere else to allow people to be able to upload pictures and then use them in posts.
Can somebody please point me in the right direction? I'm completely lost.
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OneWayMule
Dev. Team Member & Support Moderator
Austria
4969 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 13:26:17
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Ok... on uploading pictures it talks about some mods for uploading files, but I don't want people to be able to upload any file only pictures.
Both file attachment MODs have the feature to allow/disallow certain file types AFAIK, so you could restrict uploaded files to .gif, .jpg and so on.
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Besides I'd really rather not have to ad any mods because every time I do they never work. I will consider this as a last resort though.
There are a lot of people here who are willing to helpon installing MODs. Just take a look at the Help: MOD Implementation Forum.
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I also noticed a photo gallery mod but the test page for it doesn't even work so I'm afraid to use that.[/url]
Many people are using it, I wouldn't be afraid to install it just because the demo site is down.
[quote]What I'd rather do is have a program that I can upload to my web page somewhere else to allow people to be able to upload pictures and then use them in posts.
If you just want a upload scripts, do a Google Search. |
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Useful stuff:
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 15:31:21
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Thanks... I have never gotten a mod to work yet.
I just tried to add Mikes File mod... I was hoping to get this one to work as it's supposed to be a very easy mod. But when I tested it to upload a picture file it tried to put it in a www.yourname... directory instead of the proper website. I've looked thru all the files and can't find how this happened or where to tell it the right directory.
The test post I made is at www.wishram.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11" target="_blank">http://www.wishram.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
6907 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 15:43:00
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| You obviously have to configure something to tell it where to upload. Also, you have forum code turned off, which will make it very hard to insert pictures in your posts. |
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Dave.
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 26 June 2003 : 15:43:16
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You need to enable forum code Admin section --> Feature configuration and also turn on allow images in posts.
And you need to enter in your forum URL in admin section --> Mail forum configuration. |
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 15:57:20
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| So I can't upload files unless I disable HTML? |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
6907 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 16:02:43
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You can, but you'll need to change the text that is inserted and use html rather than forum code.
BTW ... it's a very bad idea to enable HTML if you have a public forum. |
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Edited by - Nikkol on 26 June 2003 16:03:17 |
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surfsteve
New Member
90 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 16:30:18
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I temporarily changed it back to forum code from HTML and it works but doesn't put the picture in like I expected but instead a paperclip icon that displays it when you click on it from the post.
I know HTML is a bad idea and I don't have it enabled on my larger forums but am chancing it on this forum because it's going to be a small group.
What I wanted was for people to be able to upload files and copy pictures to paste into an editor like frontpage. If I have to I will go back to forum code.
Is there another MOD that might work better or a better way to do this? I saw a photo gallery mod somewhere that looked pretty interesting and I also noticed there is an add on to mikes mod. (a mod within a mod?) that I was thinking of adding. |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
6907 Posts |
Posted - 26 June 2003 : 16:37:55
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do a search ... someone showed how to edit the file attachment code to make it actually display the picture.
and as far as what you want ... you cannot copy and paste pictures into a "editor" through a normal browser window without actually uploading the picture. It just doesn't work that way. Also, you're idea for FTP wouldn't work either, because then you would have to give people an FTP username and password (or allow anonymous to upload via FTP) which is also a very bad idea. If you are not hosting your own site, I seriously doubt any host would like you to give FTP access to your site. |
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Edited by - Nikkol on 26 June 2003 16:38:28 |
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