UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications V6 Mod Ideas Multiple attachments anyone?

Has anybody already done a mod to have multiple attachments to a post in 6.4? My community NEEDS multiple attachments.

Agree, could be very useful.

I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

Would be nice though.

There'd be quite a bit of reworking of the structure though, as currently the attachment is stored in the posts table.

You'd either need to add fields there - but then you'd always be limited as to how many attachments you could have by however many fields you added.

Or you could move attachments to their own table and rework the scripts from there.

[]JoshPet said:
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

Would be nice though.

There'd be quite a bit of reworking of the structure though, as currently the attachment is stored in the posts table.

You'd either need to add fields there - but then you'd always be limited as to how many attachments you could have by however many fields you added.

Or you could move attachments to their own table and rework the scripts from there. [/]

Actually what I was thinking about is to use the field that is in the database to be the name of the file that contains the names of the attached files (single first level indirection). Nonetheless I might go with a maximum number of files to attach, 'cuz that might be easier in the UI. I do have that extension for the 5.5 version, where we had all the attachments stored in an additional DB table, but this gave us headaches with certain browsers, as they don't look at the datastream, but at the name of the file to decide what kind of data is coming. (IE is notorious for that) So I was thinking of changing that storage in the DB. Ideas?

How about not using the attachemnts at all but make a separate file upload with the ubbthreads identification.