PunBB 1.3 official extension

• Status: Under development
• Current version: 1.0a.1

Allows users to attach files to posts, partially based on Attachment Mod by Frank Hagstrom.

• Link “Attachments” in the “Settings” tab in administration menu.
• Attachments settings page:
  • “Disable attachments” option. If checked uploading and downloading files will be disabled.
  • “Create orphans” option. If this option enabled, attachments will not be removed from the database, when a user wants to delete a post with these attachments.
  • “Always deny” option. The list of file-extensions, which is denied for uploading (comma separated).
  • “Display images” option. Images will be display on the viewtopic/edit page, which size is smaller than parameters below.
  • “Max height” parameter.
  • “Min height” parameter.
  • “Use icons” option. Enable displaying icons.
  • List of icons.
• Link “Attachments” in the “Management” tab in administration menu.
• Attachments management page:
  • Filters:
    • Start at
    • Number to show
    • Filesize
    • Owner
    • Topic
    • Order by
    • Result sort order
    • Show only “orphans”.
  • Fields of attachments page:
    • Filename
    • Filesize
    • Owner
    • Uploaded date
    • MIME-type
    • Downloads count.
• Editing group's permission page:
  • Additional options:
    • Allow users to download files
    • Allow users to upload files
    • Allow users to delete files
    • Allow users to delete his own file
    • Maximum size of file for uploading
    • Attacments per post (maximum count of attachments per post)
    • The list of files, which is allowed for downloading (comma separated).
• Viewtopic page:
  • List of post's attachments with information about each of them.
• Edit post page:
  • List of post's attachments with delete button of the attachment.

New table attach_files.

Additional fields in the “groups” table.

Additional config values in the “config” table.

• Add hooks inside the extensions so it were possible to enhance this extension for one's own needs.
• Add a checkbox in the admin panel to forbid guests to attach files. Can be done via group's permissions
• Add a checkbox in the admin panel to make images larger than given dimensions be shown as thumbnails.
• Add a possibility to embed images (or their thumbnails, depending on their size) into posts with BBCode, e. g. [file]image.gif[/file]

• Use Query Builder for all queries, especially when alter or create table.
• When a user adds an image, and the size of the attachment is more than the size of the avatars button, the attachment form is not displayed correctly.
• When a user edits a message with an image attachment, and its size more than the size of an avatar:
  1. Error appears: Notice: Undefined variable: attach_info in …\edit.php(345) : eval()'d code on line 53
  2. the attachment form is not displayed correctly.
• Viewing of an attachment image:
  1. Little padding in the heading
  2. In breadcrumbs, “attachment” should be a link
  3. Add an indent for dowhload links at the bottom of the page.
• When a user tries to add a file with the php-extension, it is added successfully, but in settings php-files are blocked from being attached.
• Group permissions: a user can add an image with a block extension.
• Viewing a post with an attachment image, when its size is more than an avatar's: no link to see a full size image.
• Some times all NEW attaches are not showed in NEW posts during viewing topics (see Forums topic for details)
• Delete any thread while there is a table prefix set: The error occurred on line 333 in …/pun_attachment/include/attach_func.php Database reported: Table 'site_db.posts' doesn't exist (Errno: 1146).

• Known bugs of alpha and beta versions was fixed, basic functions was implemented.

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  • SVN: /svn/additions/punbb-1.3/extensions/pun_attachment/
• Forums topic:
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