Topic: Not sure how to handle Pictures

[sck]

I am running a SMF 1.1.16 forum and up till now I have not let anyone up load pictures to posts.  I have just been making them link to a PhotoBucket type account.  However, the downside is the pictures go away when the PhotoBucket account is changed.  I would like to let members upload the photos to the forum so they stay forever.  What is the best way to do this?  I turned on the attachments but the size limit seems small but I don't know what to set it to.  I see on here it is (Restrictions: 36 per post, maximum total size 14000KB, maximum individual size 5096KB), that seems like a alot

What all settings do I need to adjust to get it working?


I also seem to remember that there was a security issue with attachments, has that been corrected?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[K@]

Depends, really.

Do you have lots of space on the server?

For what it's worth, my forum's set to allow three images per post, Max attachment folder space: is 10240, Max attachment size per post: and Max size per attachment: are both set to 256 and the max height and width are set to 400.

I don't seem to get any hassles.

The security problem was fixed a long time ago, thankfully.

[sck]

space should not be a problem (223MB of 10,000MB used)

[K@]

It's surprising how quickly that space gets used-up, with image files.

I think it'll be a case of "Suck it and see", with this.

Try a few settings and see how you go.

After all, it's easy enough to change them, innit?

[sck]

Yea, I would like to limit the attachment ability to a single board for an activity we have going in that board and let all other attachments stay as links to photo hosting sites.  However, I have not seen a setting that does it.

[K@]

There isn't.

There may be a mod, for that, though.

Can't say that I've ever seen one. But, then, I've never looked for one, for this.

Have a gander at this lot:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?action=search;basic_search=attachment

Watch for if they're compatible with your SMF version, though, before you install any.

[sck]

Thanks found one to do it.

[K@]

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