This module allows you to attach a file or image to a Pligg article. There are a lot of settings to configure it from the Admin panel to allow you to do pretty much anything with it. This module comes with Pligg versions 1.0 RC3 and above.
An early Beta version of the module was included with 1.0 RC2, but we suggest that users uninstall it and start from scratch with the version provided with RC3 to prevent any bugs from appearing.

Support
This module was developed by the Pligg team and is being released for free, but we do ask that if you use this module please consider donating a small amount ($10-20) to help us recuperate our losses for the amount of time involved in developing this module. This is probably the most advanced module designed for Pligg yet and we designed it so that it could be used in a broad array of sites. Because we had to design it with so many uses in mind it took us a very long time to get it just right. If you plan on using this module for commercial use (generating income greater than $30/month from the site), we require that you submit a donation of at least $10.

Technical support will be provided for BUGS that are recognized as valid and applicable to a large number of sites. We cannot support requests for features unless you are willing to pay for the extra features to be developed and to allow the feature to be contributed back to the community.

Features:

• Upload image to your website
• Grab an image from another site
• Generate multiple thumbnails for attached images
• Attach files to articles.
• Select what file types you want to allow from the upload settings page. (Ex: zip jpg psd )
• Add additional fields for each uploaded file. Use it require a name, description, author, etc. for each file.
• Automatically embed image thumbnails into posts. Just tell it what template hook to use from the upload settings page.
• Automatically embed an attached image list. Like above, just tell it what template hook to use to place the list.
• Easily add HTML before and after the thumbnails or attached files list. Use these settings fields in the upload settings page to add the needed HTML to apply javascript effects to your images, or customize how the images and file list look.
• Use template tags to embed the uploaded images into your template.

Example:
Below is a screenshot of the upload module as seen at the top of Submit Step 2.


Below is a screenshot of what happens after I have attached an image and clicked the Upload button:


Upload Module Tags
If you want to manually control where images are inserted into story content you will want to use the image tags provided next to the example thumbnail(s) during the upload process in submit step 2. Example tags might be:

• {image1}
• {image1_100x100}
• {image2}
• {image2_250x250}

The numbers in those examples are from the sizes setup from the Upload module settings page. After you upload an image it should show a thumbnail and display one of these tags next to it for you to use if you want to embed it in the article.

Upload Module Template Tags
This module will insert thumbnails automatically into your template by using template hooks. This was designed so that you wouldn't need to edit your template files manually in order to start using the module. If you want to customize where the images are individually displaying in the template, for example show the first image at the top of the post and show the second uploaded image at the bottom, you should follow the usage examples below.

To insert the first attached image at it's original file size you will insert the code {$image1} into link_summary.tpl where you want it to display. The second uploaded image would be {$image2} and so on.

From the upload settings page I have created a thumbnail size of 500x500 pixels. This allows an uploaded image to have a maximum length of 500 pixels when being resized. So if you upload a 1000x500 pixel image it would be shrunk proportionately to 500x250 pixels. To embed that 500x250 pixel image into my template I would add the code {$image1_500x500} into link_summary.tpl to display the first uploaded file for a post at it's 500x500 pixel thumbnail size. {$image2_500x500} would display the second 500x500 attached file. In the case that no image is attached nothing extra will be inserted into your template.

Examples

Please see the attached image for a screenshot of the Upload module settings page and examples of what the upload process looks like for the submit step 2 page.

[testmgm]

Has anyone using the media master module with the upload module been able to upload flv or mp3 files correctly?

Linking works perfectly and so does uploading images however video & audio uploading basically works when it wants to but for the most part says: ERROR: No files to upload

Any suggestions are appreciated...

[princevio]

Hi,
Is it possible to grab images like Digg.com when we submit the news/article.
I think this is the best way to submit news in easy way through the user.

Thanks

[yogkarma]

Dear All,

I tried all options,suggestions inclduing removing file physically and re-upload and re-install this module. But i have following error. I tried to change chmod 777 , 7555 etc but no luck.

Here is the error message.

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@mywebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any help highly highly appreciated.

Regards,
YoG

[Yankidank]

Have you checked your server error logs? Could you provide us with a link and demo account? How can we reproduce this problem?

[yogkarma]

Originally Posted by Yankidank

Have you checked your server error logs? Could you provide us with a link and demo account? How can we reproduce this problem?

I don't see and error_log file created,let me create demo account for you.

[yogkarma]

Originally Posted by yogkarma

I don't see and error_log file created,let me create demo account for you.

Ha Ha....Trick works I change upload.js from 644 to 764 and it works.

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[dariodn]

i've installed it on localhost mamp (apache on mac) and it's works.
then installed it on locahost windows and it's doesn't show image, after upload or save. How it's possible?
tnx

[erikajurney]

Is there any way to make uploading a file required?

Thanks,
Erika

[erikajurney]

My site is all about the images, but sometimes people forget to click the final 'upload' button after they've browsed to their image. Is there a way to make the uploaded file required to submit the form? That way they'd get an error if their submission didn't have an image uploaded.

Thanks very much,
Erika

[oggito]

Hello,

I am trying to embed the thumbs of the uploaded images directly after the story content. This should be done automatically for every single post, without having to write in step 2 for instance {image1_500x500}. How can I extract the thumbs for the images in the story_center.tpl right after the story content? I will then assign every thumb to open on click in a facebox window.

I hope you would help me in solving this issue.

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
oggito