Attachment Mod 2.0.1 by Frank H (Page 14 of 21)

Okay, I'll give you that it's possible, I guess I just changed it to something I knew would work for my particular situation because screw typing in that many extensions

Oh, there is also a matter of your AP_* file being pretty incompatible with Postgres.  In this case, one of the problems is changing tinyint(1) to Boolean (which I admit isn't actually necessary as INT works just fine, but from a semantic point of view using Boolean is better), so all your "WHERE 1" statements need to be changed to "WHERE true", though I see no reason for those statements anyway, I mean "true" is always "true" just like "1" is always "1", right?  Once again, I could be wrong here.  Also, for compatability reasons you should avoid using ` as a quote character, instead use ', ", or nothing as the case dictates.  I can supply a more compatible version of this file if you like. 

I think the JOIN is easily the best way to go, the only extra "gotcha" associated with it is the loop to delete duplicate posts, but if v1.3 has a "proper" templating system then you won't even need that.  There's quite a bit of optimization that could be done, but to be perfectly honest the only place it really matters is in viewtopic.php, all the other stuff either can't suffer from its time complexity or is an Admin area, and who cares how fast those are

Good luck with the next version

EDIT:  Most of the Admin Plugin for this mod is incompatible with Postgres, too

Are you sure you put the plugin in the plugins/ folder?

Hi folks,

A while ago I had some errors with the attachment mod, after which my life suddenly got extremely busy and I wasn't able to follow up properly. Since I've tried installing a fresh PunBB four times (1.2.12 twice, 1.2.13 and 1.2.14) with the attachment mod, always getting the same error, I doubt I'm doing something wrong in the installation procedure as I've REALLY followed the instructions to the point. My symptoms are:

* Attachment mod working wonderfully for all files below about 2-3000 bytes.

What happens is that I set the attachment rules (increasing attachment size), but they keep bouncing back to "default" 2000 bytes. I've changed the setting in phpmyadmin and it still bounces back. Even when I changed the sizelimit in phpmyadmin and then immediately tried to post a 100Kb file it didn't work. And yes, the PHP-settings are valid (huge size-limits etc, which work with other php-scripts). I've tried it on two different servers; my home server and one from One.com, so it seems doubtful that it is server related.

Anyway, I don't think I have any more time to spend on installing this mod, but I'm writing this just to notify you of a potential error (unless I have made the same mistake four times on two different servers).

Lastly, one question: The attachment mod says to support versions of PunBB higher than what seems to be the newest one, how is that possible? Is it a clone or separate project that has come further? In that case I'd very much like to give that version a try in case it solves my error - PunBB seems to be clearly the best choice for my site (www.pianophilia.com), but to switch forums is impossible without an attachment mod (my 460 existing users use it all the time).

Jan Terje

Oh my God!! That did the trick!!!!! The cache-file clearly wasn't updated to contain the attachment variables, as soon as I deleted it and entered PunBB again, it worked!!

I must thank you for all the help you've given. I must say that not only is PunBB a brilliant forum, but the excellent, fast and friendly community support is unsurpassable! Together I can't imagine a better forum to run on my site, and hope to be ready to switch from the ugly&bloated fudforum during the weekend!

Thanks again, I'm very grateful!

Jan Terje

hey
i did a search about it..
but i didnt find the answer.. i got an error : "Unable to copy .htaccess file" when i try to execute the install_mod.php
i got index.html and .htacces on the "attach" folder at the root..

what's wrong ?
when i try to upload.. there is nothing...
thanks to you
Nico

Hi again,

Just finetuning my installation of punbb & attachment mod before the big opening, and I have one question and one request:

Question: When I download (left-click) an attachment with spaces in the filename, it adds lots 19%2C%2012% etc. Is it possible to remove this?
Request: To be able to attach more files in one go, instead of having to edit the post.

Apart from that, I'm very happy with everything!

Jan Terje

Thanks for the good answer. I'm afraid I doesn't know any php at all (just leeching on others work), but I understand why the multiple attachments is a barrier to break elegantly. And what I love with punbb in general that what it does, it does extremely well. Better to keep it clean, bugfree and fast than to just throw in every feature imaginable.

One question though; when's the planned releasedate for PunBB1.3? I've tried to find any clues whatsoever (next week, next month, next year, next decade?), but haven't had any luck.

Jan Terje

Hi, i'm running punbb 1.2.12 and i really appreciate the work you've put into this plugin.

I have followed all installation steps, including the steps for versions later than 1.2.6 at http://cms.frankh.shacknet.nu/

Nothing uploads, everything loads perfectly without any errors at all but when anyone tries to upload a file, their post is made but the file just isn't uploaded. The attachment directory is chmodded to 777

Any Ideas?

thnx for helping out janterje

when you say you followed all installation steps, did you also do "Testing the mod" and "Setup the mod"?
(if Testing the mod works, the file edits are usually ok (that's why I ask), and then it's usually something in the rules(/cache) or file access)

nice

(you should upgrade to the 1.2.14 though, as there are some bugfixes ... it's quite easy to do with the hdiffs)

Sent an email

FredrikK: Your email bounce, but I saw that you had solved it by yourself.

(so you know what I got)

The problem koktsing had was that the fpassthru function couldn't load the whole file, but instead sent only the first 2'000'000 bytes. To solve this one just need to replace line 116 in attachment.php to an fread inside a while statement, like this:

#
#---------[ 1. OPEN ]---------------------------------------------------------
#

attachment.php


#
#---------[ 2. FIND (line: 116) ]----------------------------------------------
#

        fpassthru($fp);


#
#---------[ 3. REPLACE WITH ]------------------------------------------------
#

        while(!feof($fp))
            echo fread($fp,4096);


#
#---------[ 49. SAVE, UPLOAD ]------------------------------------------------
#

This will probably make PHP use less memory aswell, but I'm not sure if it's slower than fpassthru (as that can read everything in one burst from hdd)