Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Choli
that's not the problem but someone attaches a file in prewiev and then close the page without doing anything more. The file would stay at the server taking space.

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quick thought: Can't you do a check for that?
I would love to see the feature....

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
quick thought: Can't you do a check for that?
I would love to see the feature....

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well, there may be a script with a timeout. Once you clic preview to have X seconds/minutes to post or the atachment wil l be deleted. I'm not sure if that is possible and easyly doable. Let's ask WDZ. That way, it'd be nice. You could show an image attached to your own post without editing

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Originally posted by Choli
well, there may be a script with a timeout. Once you clic preview to have X seconds/minutes to post or the atachment wil l be deleted.

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I don't really like the idea of having a PHP script running for a long time like that... kinda half-assed solution.

As for the "storing attachment before post" idea in general: attachments need to be associated with posts. If there's no post stored, you can't associate an attachment with it. This can be worked around, but I don't really want to.

* WDZ wonders how the great Invision Board handles this problem... and vBulletin...

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You could show an image attached to your own post without editing

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Blahs... you need the post id to have the attachment URL, and that's not available until you post the message.

There's a feature in MyBB to always show attached images, but I'm not going to enable that because sometimes large images are attached, or you just don't want it shown right away.

There are 2 solutions I can think of...
1) Have an [attachment] bbcode that will be replaced by the attachment URL after posting, so you could do [img=100x100][attachment][/img], for example.
2) The cleaner, but more difficult-to-add option: make the "show attached image in post" feature optional on a per-post basis, as signatures are. This wouldn't allow the attachment to be shown anywhere in the post though, only at the bottom.

first one

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Originally posted by WDZ
* WDZ wonders how the great  Invision Board handles this problem... and vBulletin...

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a temporal posts table in the DB?

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Originally posted by WDZ
you need the post id to have the attachment URL, and that's not available until you post the message.

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so true

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Originally posted by Chrono
first one

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yep. Add the [attachment] code

I've given it some thought, and technically, what I'm going to say now isn't offtopic, as it does involve another Preview bug

[*]Wrongly checking boxes automaticallyWhen the option to send an email when a reply is posted is disabled by default, and you post a reply to a thread without checking the box manually, you will not receive a reply (which is a good thing). But when you edit your post and choose to Preview it, the box for email notification will be checked automatically. This is probably a bug and thus it requires fixing.

And something else has been bothering me much too, lately:
[*]Wrong interpretation of hyperlinksWhen you type a hyperlink and add a comma after it, the comma will be included in the link. This is not the case with other diacritic symbols, is probably a bug and thus it requires fixing.

So, should they be fixed?

Edit: forgot to say I'd like the [attachment] code too

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Originally posted by Tochjo
[*]Wrong interpretation of hyperlinksWhen you type a hyperlink and add a comma after it, the comma will be included in the link. This is not the case with other diacritic symbols, is probably a bug and thus it requires fixing.

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Hyperlinks may have comas, so MyBB add the coma to the link bacuse it thinks it's part of the link. That's a right behavior. If you don't want the coma at the link, put a space or use the [url] tag.
Talking about links, I've just remembered this bug:

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click here: http://www.example.com

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click here: http://www.example.com
move your mouse over the "click here" and the url. The underlined does not take both thing. MyBB puts two links instead of only one.

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Originally posted by Choli
Hyperlinks may have comas, so MyBB add the coma to the link bacuse it thinks it's part of the link. That's a right behavior. If you don't want the coma at the link, put a space or use the [url] tag.

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Hyperlinks can also contain dots, but when I place a dot at the end of a hyperlink, it will not be included in the hyperlink. Yet a comma will: that sounds like a bug to me. And I know how to fix it avoid this problem, don't worry

Back to the preview thing, couldn't the preview page reinsert the path of the attachment into the new preview box?  The user is hardly going to change the path in between previewing and posting...

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Originally posted by Tochjo
[*]Wrongly checking boxes automaticallyWhen the option to send an email when a reply is posted is disabled by default, and you post a reply to a thread without checking the box manually, you will not receive a reply (which is a good thing). But when you edit your post and choose to Preview it, the box for email notification will be checked automatically. This is probably a bug and thus it requires fixing.

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I believe I've already fixed this in the upgrade I'm preparing.

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[*]Wrong interpretation of hyperlinksWhen you type a hyperlink and add a comma after it, the comma will be included in the link. This is not the case with other diacritic symbols, is probably a bug and thus it requires fixing.

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"Diacritic"? I guess it's time for some WDZ vocabulary expansion...

I intentionally made the parser exclude any "." character at the end of a URL from the link. I did this because people often want a link at the end of a sentence... http://www.example.com.

I didn't do the same with any other "diacritic" characters because they're not used as commonly, and I'd have to add them all individually. Also, the more characters you're checking for, the less efficient your code is going to be. If you really want the comma though, I'll look into adding it.

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Edit: forgot to say I'd like the [attachment] code too

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Good, people like my brilliant attachment code idea...

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Originally posted by Choli
Talking about links, I've just remembered this bug:

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click here: http://www.example.com

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click here: http://www.example.com
move your mouse over the "click here" and the url. The underlined does not take both thing. MyBB puts two links instead of only one.

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Sorry, but I'm not going to fix that. First of all, it's near impossible to fix completely, second, you're not using the bbcode correctly (or in way that makes sense), so it's a user error, and third, there's no visible problem with the result.

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Originally posted by Tochjo
Hyperlinks can also contain dots, but when I place a dot at the end of a hyperlink, it will not be included in the hyperlink. Yet a comma will: that sounds like a bug to me.

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Not really... as I made it exclude the dot intentionally. I didn't add support for commas, so it's a missing feature.

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And I know how to fix it, don't worry

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Really? Since when do you know PHP, and since when do you have my code?

Edit: Ohh... dodgy edit. =P

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Originally posted by fluffy_lobster
Back to the preview thing, couldn't the preview page reinsert the path of the attachment into the new preview box?  The user is hardly going to change the path in between previewing and posting...

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That's not allowed by browsers for security reasons. I could steal any file off your PC if I had the path entered by default there. Try adding the value="" attribute to an <input type="file"> tag... it will be ignored.