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.

[Yankidank]

When adding the thumbnail code to link_summary.tpl you will need to add a $ after the opening bracket.

Example:{$image1_183x150}

See the first post " Upload Module Template Tags" section for more examples.

[ronwaste]

i thank you so much... and sorry that i dont read your instructions correctly! but my englisch is not so good and i missed it sorry an thanks for your work!

[ronwaste]

now i have a question... that dont stand in your first post...

i want to use jquery with a lightbox for my images... so i go to the templatepage and tried the following:

<a id="single_image" href="{$image1_580x800}">{$image1_50x50}</a> the problem is that i dont get only the file link... in this case the link ist <img src .... is there a way to get the link to the file without the img tag?

[duanearnett]

fwiw. if you're on hostmonster and having a problem with file upload change you're php.ini from 2M(default) to size in bytes i.e. upload_max_filesize = 20971520 (this is for 20mb). copy the php.ini to your subfolders and it should work. might not work for you but if youre having php.ini issues on hostmonster this will probably fix it.

[snowrob5]

I get the "timeout error" with this module as well. Even though the file does upload successfully... If I go ahead and submit the article (after the file upload timeout error) and then I go to the article I can click on the image link and get the picture. I don't see anything in the error logs and I don't see a readme.html that specifies all the details of this plugin anywhere. Any help would be appreciated as users will think their upload failed even though it was successful.

[MarkC]

I am having a strange problem with the upload module. I am using pligg 1.0 and testing the upload module with the default template.

I am not facing any problem while uploading images.

But when I am trying to upload a video file either it says ERROR: No files to upload or Failed ..Timeout error.

Please help me out!

[chuckroast]

Originally Posted by MarkC

I am having a strange problem with the upload module. I am using pligg 1.0 and testing the upload module with the default template.

I am not facing any problem while uploading images.

But when I am trying to upload a video file either it says ERROR: No files to upload or Failed ..Timeout error.

Please help me out!

Check your php.ini and make sure there isn't a default file size upload limit.

[MarkC]

Everything seems perfect on my end ... upload_max_filesize = 64M is on my php.ini ? What's going wrong then?

[Yankidank]

Check in php.ini for something similar to...

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Resource Limits ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

max_execution_time = 30     ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60    ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
;max_input_nesting_level = 64 ; Maximum input variable nesting level
memory_limit = 128M      ;

Those 3 uncommented values might need to be adjusted to allow for larger files to be uploaded, since it takes more time to upload larger files.

[dapon]

- Grab an image from another site

What`s meaning, how can i using that ?