Posting Links and Images

ncabalos · August 28, 2009, 6:16am

Hi, this is my first post. Does this mean I could post images after this? Thanks!

ncabalos · August 28, 2009, 4:38pm

Hi, I think that I have met the two criteria listed above but I still can’t post images. Can someone fix this? Thanks.

kurte · August 28, 2009, 8:20pm

I believe that it might have to be 24 hours after your first post. I believe your post was at 11:16pm last night, so you may have to wait until the morning.

Kurt

roboted · December 13, 2011, 10:38pm

I see the tools for doing this when composing messages intended for the entire forum. However, I am unable to find similar tools for attaching images to Private Messages intended for only a few addressees.

Please, how do I send images in PMs?

robotdude · December 13, 2011, 11:05pm

They have that functionality turned off, you’re not overlooking anything. You can use the img tags, but cannot attach.

roboted · December 14, 2011, 6:02am

Thank you. I see that I can use the image tags, but I can not find a way to place a picture image between them. I was able to copy and paste some text between them, but the associated picture (.jpg) image would not paste. If images of text are the only things allowed, “” is very misleading and not very useful.

Is it really that limited in PMs?

kurte · December 14, 2011, 3:27pm

I thought I would now respond publicly after I teased you with a PM with an image

Awhile ago Lynxmotion did not have any image hosting directly on their forums, so you had to use some external server to host your images. At that time I was using Photobucket, which is still a valid host. What you had to do was to upload your images to their site. When you had an image there, they gave you links to it in several different formats. In the case I used the direct link.

You then go to the Lynxmotion forum and past the link in, surrounded by the image tags, like:
http://i416.photobucket.com/albums/pp245/Kurts_Robots/State-if-disarray.jpg

Note: to show you exactly what is in this link, I now will replace with { and ] with }
{img}http://i416.photobucket.com/albums/pp245/Kurts_Robots/State-if-disarray.jpg{/img}

There are also other free servers for uploading images, I simply choose that that time to use photobucket.

Hope that helps
Kurt

snailkeeper · December 14, 2011, 3:36pm

RoboTed:

Robot Dude:

They have that functionality turned off, you’re not overlooking anything. You can use the img tags, but cannot attach.

Thank you. I see that I can use the image tags, but I can not find a way to place a picture image between them. I was able to copy and paste some text between them, but the associated picture (.jpg) image would not paste. If images of text are the only things allowed, “” is very misleading and not very useful.

Is it really that limited in PMs?
I’m not quite sure you understand how to use the image tags, so allow me to explain:

The functionality of these tags is to allow you to paste an image URL surrounded by the img tags. Then the image will automagically show up in the body of your post or personal message once you “submit” or “preview”. You don’t paste the image itself between the tags, just the location of the image on the web.

The image tags will not allow for posting an image that is on your computer. That would require attachment, which is disabled for PMs - when you attach a file it is uploaded to the forum from your computer.

Hope this helps.

roboted · December 14, 2011, 4:28pm

You are right; I was not understanding, but I was beginning to get there. Zenta and Kurte had each sent me PMs with images. By analyzing those, I found they each had placed URL site references within the Img tags. So their pictures were already on the net and not on their private computers as mine are.

It was a good explanation. It helps me understand that what I want to do is impossible. It doesn’t help me achieve the impossible.
And here I thought you were the problem solver for the organization!
Thank you.

innerbreed · December 14, 2011, 4:35pm

so we are all wondering… were is this picture? lol

you can host your images on many sites. i use

photobucket.com/

hovering your mouse over the image will bring up the code URLS. seen here at the bottom of the drop down list

Note the IMG tab is already surrounding the text so it can just be directly posted to the forum without having to highlight and press the tag.
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/dd355/innerbreed/Capture2-1.jpg

robotdude · December 14, 2011, 4:43pm

She is. That’s why she disabled the ability to host files in PM’s. There are security risks, and we just don’t want the forum database to be filled with things that do not benefit the entire forum community.

innerbreed · December 14, 2011, 4:47pm

This brings up my question… Is it possible for each of use to access our own uploaded (attachments) in this database? Kind of like a users gallery.?

snailkeeper · December 14, 2011, 6:20pm

There certainly is! Click on User Control Panel > Manage Attachments.

innerbreed · December 14, 2011, 6:31pm

OOoo. there they are. thank you.

roboted · December 14, 2011, 7:06pm

Of course I meant my problems. You may have mistaken me for someone who cares about the general good of all such as your concerns for security risks and filling up the database appear to address. Thanks for all the good explanations. This may be the final impetus to set up my own web site.

roboted · December 15, 2011, 4:14pm

A final wrap-up for those of you who have been avidly following my misadventures: YES images can be indirectly passed in Private Messages, BUT ONLY IF they are already stored somewhere on line so that a URL link can be forwarded in the message. It turned out for my limited purposes that a service such as PhotoBucket made much more sense than establishing a personal website just to store a few images.

My thanks to Kurte, Zenta, Innerbreed, Robot Dude, and Snailkeeper for their patience and assistance in guiding me to this happy solution.

What do you suppose she does with all those snails anyway?

km6vv · December 15, 2011, 7:41pm

escargot!

Alan KM6VV

km6vv · March 9, 2012, 8:58pm

I just joined another Forum (for Heli’s) which is also “Powered by phpBB”, and they have a “download post” in the header of each message on the forum.

“[size=150]Download post[/size]” is great! Can we have/get it?

Thanks!

Alan KM6VV

marctetrapod · November 21, 2012, 9:24pm

I also meet the criteria but I can’t post links.

Thanks

cbenson · November 22, 2012, 4:29pm

It should be possible to post normal links like:
www.lynxmotion.com

With regard to the “Download post” - we’ll check out if the mod is still available for the latest version of pHpBB. Can you send a link to a forum which has that feature?