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Attachment Size differnent on Different Forums -- #242624 04/14/2003 4:33 PM
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12 hotbabes_dup1 Newbie
hotbabes_dup1 Newbie Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12	Hi, We are running 6.2.3 Our requirements are -- (1) ALL forums shall be displayed to all but only be navigable based on 'groups'. Currently, if only GROUP A has permission to see forum A - no other group than A knows Forum A exists!!! This is a bane. We have some 'donors only' forum, but unless one donates no one knows those forums exist! We want everyone to see them. (2) We want the donor forum members to be able to upload more and upload different contents. Like, we want their upload size restricted to 2MB (as opposed to 100KB for general users) and we want donors to be able to upload small multimedia files, whereas general members can upload only JPEGs. Any idea how these can be achieved. Another concern - after upgrade to 6.2.3. the bandwidth usage has increased 2 fold! Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, HB

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Re: Attachment Size differnent on Different Forums -- martinc #242625 04/14/2003 4:49 PM
Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 10,369 Charlotte, NC JoshPet I type Like navaho
JoshPet I type Like navaho Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 10,369 Charlotte, NC	The easiest way to do as you describe would be to create Teaser Forums so taht people know those hidden forums are there. That's what I do to lure them in. To change the filesize restrictions, you'd probably need to find the filesize variable in addpost.php and modify it from there... likewise with this list of allowed files. Using one set of variables if they are a member of a certain group. You'd also have to adjust the same in the modify posts scripts, if people come back and edit their attachments. As per bandwidth, is Zlib compression on? Maybe it was on and got switched off in the upgrade. Typically bandwidth is less if Zlib compression is on, as the pages sent are smaller.

Re: Attachment Size differnent on Different Forums -- Daine #242626 04/14/2003 5:02 PM
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12 hotbabes_dup1 Newbie
hotbabes_dup1 Newbie Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12	-- No, the ZLIB compression is on. I just now double checked. -- Hmm, the teaser forum idea is rocking cool. Will try to implement that tonight. -- "To change the filesize restrictions, you'd probably need to find the filesize variable in addpost.php and modify it from there... likewise with this list of allowed files. Using one set of variables if they are a member of a certain group. You'd also have to adjust the same in the modify posts scripts, if people come back and edit their attachments." So basically, I would need to add an IF - ELSE loop to both the script. We basically want (say) if forum # == 6 //will have 'special' attachment provisions - i.e., set Size = 2MB; set type =general types + .ram + .wmv + .mpg + .avi; end if; Well, I am definitely not a PHP pro. Just tried to visualize it. Don't know how to code though Thanks however, hb

Re: Attachment Size differnent on Different Forums -- martinc #242627 04/14/2003 5:17 PM
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12 hotbabes_dup1 Newbie
hotbabes_dup1 Newbie Joined: May 2002 Posts: 12	OK, so in my version 6.2.3 between 677 and 692 line # -- // Let's see if we want this type of file if (isset($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile'])) { if ( ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'] != "none") && ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']) ){ if (preg_match("/\.(php\|php3\|php4\|cgi\|pl\|exe\|bat\|reg)$/i",$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'])) { $html -> not_right("{$ubbt_lang['FILESALLOWED']}: {$config['allowfiles']}",$Cat); } $checkfile = str_replace(",","\|",$config['allowfiles']); if (!preg_match("/($checkfile)$/i",$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'])) { $html -> not_right("{$ubbt_lang['FILESALLOWED']}: {$config['allowfiles']}",$Cat); } } if ( ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['size'] > $config['filesize']) ) { $html -> not_right($ubbt_lang['FILE_TOO_BIG'],$Cat); } } -- I will have to put another comparison with forum# 5 there, right?

Re: Attachment Size differnent on Different Forums --

martinc #242628 04/14/2003 5:44 PM

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JoshPet

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JoshPet

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This is the untested theory......

It's probably best to give them different upload right based on them being a member of a particular group (your contributors).

First you'd need to look to find out what group number your contributors are in. For now, let's say group number 5.

Code

 <br />// Let's see if we want this type of file <br />   if (isset($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile'])) { <br />      if ( ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'] != "none") && ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']) ){ <br />   if (preg_match("/\.(php|php3|php4|cgi|pl|exe|bat|reg)$/i",$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'])) { <br />      $html -> not_right("{$ubbt_lang['FILESALLOWED']}: {$config['allowfiles']}",$Cat); <br />} <br /> <br />// use different types of allowed files based on what group they are in <br />if (strstr($user['U_Groups'], '-5-')) { <br />   $checkfile = str_replace(",","|",$config['allowfilesspecial']); <br />} <br />else { <br />   $checkfile = str_replace(",","|",$config['allowfiles']); <br />} <br /> <br /> <br />if (!preg_match("/($checkfile)$/i",$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'])) { <br />   $html -> not_right("{$ubbt_lang['FILESALLOWED']}: {$config['allowfiles']}",$Cat); <br />} <br />} <br /> <br />// Use different file sizes if they are members of a special group <br />if (strstr($user['U_Groups'], '-5-')) { <br />   $allowedsize = $config['filesizespecial']; <br />} <br />else { <br />   $allowedsize = $config['filesize']; <br />} <br /> <br /> <br />if ( ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['size'] > $allowedsize) ) { <br />$html -> not_right($ubbt_lang['FILE_TOO_BIG'],$Cat); <br />} <br />} <br />

Now you'd also have to edit your config file...at the very bottom there is a place for extra/unknown variables.

We'd need to add one for a list of files allowed for your special group... like this:

$config['allowfilesspecial'] = '.txt,.gif,.jpg,.png,.zip';

And one for the special files size limit:

$config['filesizespecial'] = '10000000';

I haven't tested.... but the theory is there.

To find out what group number belongs to your special group, run this SQL Query.

SELECT *
FROM w3t_Groups

Hope that helps.

Last edited by JoshPet; 04/14/2003 8:08 PM.