User upload toolkit

[IntegraTeam]

You may be interested to know there is a new version of the user upload toolkit. It has been linked to in our download section.

Starfoxtj wrote:
PHPBB User Upload ToolKit v0.4 released!

v0.4 is here! After over 22 hours of work and 30 pages of additional code, I am very pleased to finally release this much anticipated version.

I have had plans for most of the features this release includes since I wrote my first line of this toolkit almost a year ago. It is great to finally see them in existence!

I hope all of you enjoy the use of this script as much as I do! <img>

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1: Full Thumbnail Support
This is by far the most requested feature.
Users can now generate thumbnails on the fly for the images they upload.
Custom sizes also available for users to set if they want their thumbnail larger or smaller then the default. The thumbnails are actual image files, meaning they CAN be embedded directly into the post, unlike most thumbnail mods that use query strings.

2: Group Authentication
Administrators can now restrict, or deny access to the toolkit based on user groups. This is excellent for boards that have thousands of users, but you only want a few to have access to the toolkit. Just make a group, add the users you want, and add the group name to the approved list. It works the same way to deny users, but in reverse. Make a group for the users who you dont want accessing the toolkit, add it to the lsit, and everyone but the users in that group have access.

3: Ready-to-go Pre-Formatted links
Past versions of the toolkit just had a plain old URL printed on the upload page that you would need to format for use in PHPBB.
v0.4 now includes multiple pre-formatted copy-able text fields that you can use for many different purposes. It includes the url, img bbc code tags, as well as direct url and ready-to-go embedded thumbnail images that link to the full size. I also added auto-detection for the fields that are displayed, you will have an extra img field if its an image file, and if the image has a thumbnail, you will see extra thumbnail fields.

4: Cookie Check
Alot of users dont know why they keep getting logged out, so I included a cookie check to display an error message if they do not have their cookies enabled. This should hopefully eliminates the "why cant I login" question.

5: Help Guide
I included a basic tutorial in the Instructions.txt file, but only the admin reads that (unless a user were to download the toolkit themselves). v0.4 includes a fairly extensive and detailed tutorial about how to upload files, how to rename/delete them and how to use thumbnails. This should make it much easier on admins and users because most of their questions will hopefully be in the guide.

6: Added extra session check
I added an extra check to make sure the toolkit only uses the existing login session if it was the exact file that generated the session to begin with. Due to the way php sessions work, any script on a domain can access the session variable. This new check allows admins to properly run multiple upload toolkit installations for multiple forums on the same domain without the session variables being transferred from toolkit to toolkit.

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1: Added office formats to the approved file extension list
I added the .ppt and .xls extensions to the approved list so users can now upload excel and powerpoint files.

2: Changed $phpbb_folder_name slightly
Alot of users (myself included) wanted to be able to put the upload directory IN the same folder their forum is located; instead of adjacent to it. If the upload folder is adjacent to the 'forum' folder, then the value would be '/forum' instead of just 'forum'. By adding the forward slash to the $phpbb_folder_name variable instead of hardcoded it into the script, admins can now set it to '' (blank) to have the upload folder inside their forum folder.

3: Slight change to the wording of the hotlink.php file
Just added some extra details (in the image) of what is included in the hotlink report to hopefully discourage the average user from attempting it.

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You may download the toolkit from here: http://integramod.com/forum/dload.php?a ... file_id=88

[Threat009]

Awesome! I tried to install the previous version but wasn't successful. Having a usergroup function was one of my concerns, so thankyou much for that much needed upgrade. However, the link leads to a page that leads to a dead link. Can someone please fix it? I need this / lol Tanx! <img>

[Adrian Rea]

Working now <img>

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[Threat009]

[quote=""Adrian Rea";p="7651""]Working now Thankyou Mr. Adrian Rea! <img>

[Adrian Rea]

Aww I think I'm blushing! (again! lol)

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[Threat009]

This thing works great! One question though. How would I go about making it look more like fisubice? It just looks rather bland, white page & blck text <img>

[Adrian Rea]

I totallly agree. in future editions the styles will be taken into account, however for now there are a couple of ways to do it. You could build it into a portal page with an iframe etc, http://integramod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6566#6566 will give you an idea.
Then you could alsi link to a template css, but if you use more than one it may look odd.

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[Threat009]

I totallly agree. in future editions the styles will be taken into account, however for now there are a couple of ways to do it. You could build it into a portal page with an iframe etc, http://integramod.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6566#6566 will give you an idea.
Then you could alsi link to a template css, but if you use more than one it may look odd.

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an iframe yeah, wow I can't believe I didn't think of that