UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Attachments

Hi

Is there a way to make the attachment links be more obvious to users? If you don't know where to look you miss it very easy.

Um... yes? Make it bold? Make it a different color? Move it? Couldn't think of those?

Well, yes, of course. I just don't know how to do it.

In showflat.tmpl template look for this:

{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}

Add bold, or color, or size html tags around it as you wish.

Example:

<b><font size="+1">{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}</font></b>


In showthreaded.tmpl what you're looking for is this:


$filelink

Hey that's great, I'll try it once I've sorted out this other problem I'm faced with.
I'm trying to upload an attachment of 3.2MB zip file (size limit set to around 8MB) and everytine I do it it seems to get uploaded, no errors, the page comes up to say it's been added. BUT, no file...... looked in the folder, not there. Others have had success with zip files so it's not an extention thing and smaller zip files work for me.

Generally PHP has a 2 MB limit - which you can't override from within threads. If it's your server, you can edit the php.ini file for your PHP configuration and raise the limit. Otherwise on most servers, the default max built into php for file uploads will be 2MB.

Ahhh, that must be it. I'll contact my host provider and get them to change it.

[]JoshPet said:
In showflat.tmpl template look for this:

{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}

Add bold, or color, or size html tags around it as you wish.

Example:

<b><font size="+1">{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}</font></b>


In showthreaded.tmpl what you're looking for is this:


$filelink

[/]

Iv'e got that allsussed out thankyou.
Now if I want to put the disk icon to the left of the "attachment link" I would put this string <img src="http://dvdquestions.com.au/ubbthreads/images/icons/disk.gif" somewhere, but where? If I put it in the same place it appears in all the posts in that thread.

Thanks

You can look in showflat.php and showthreaded.php - search for those variables ($filelink etc...) and you'll see where the HTML is defined. You can add it there.

Does it go in the same spot as when I changed it to bold? As I mentioned it goes on every post in the thread then.

Here's what I have

<font class="small">
<a name="#{$postrow[$i]['Number']}">#<span id="number$i">{$postrow[$i]['Number']}</span> - {$postrow[$i]['time']} <i>{$postrow[$i]['IP']}</i>
<b>{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}</b>
</font>

and I was adding
<image scr="http://dvdquestions.com.au/ubbthreads/images/icons/disk.gif" before this bit <b>{$postrow[$i]['filelink']}</b>

What I do wrong?

No the showflat.php and showthreaded.php scripts (not template). Search for those variables and you'll see where they defined.

ahhhhh, but I'm still not doing it right.

My line in the script

$postrow[$i]['filelink'] =<img src=\http://dvdquestions.com.au/ubbthreads/images/icons/disk.gif"<a href="{$config['phpurl']}/download.php?Number=$Number">{$ubbt_lang['FILE_ATTACH']}</a> ($downloads {$ubbt_lang['DOWNLOADS']})";

errors

Your HTML is a mess. Missing a quote and a closing tag.

$postrow[$i]['filelink'] = "<img src="http://dvdquestions.com.au/ubbthreads/images/icons/disk.gif" alt="{$ubbt_lang['FILE_ATTACH']}"/><a href="{$config['phpurl']}/download.php?Number=$Number">{$ubbt_lang['FILE_ATTACH']}</a> ($downloads {$ubbt_lang['DOWNLOADS']})";

Should do it.

Just like spaghetti hehe