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Farewell

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I announce that I cease all development and activity in the programming universe indefinitely. My career has reached the turning point I was not expecting for at least another year, leaving me highly off guard and without laid-out plans for this hobby's continuity. I have begun a 5-year residency program in Neurosurgery which is clearly not compatible, time-wise, with programming.

I gave in all my passion for developing, and you gave me back your loyalty and trust, even when I did not deserve that much. Now it is the time for payback. I release all my present and past work as Open Source software, in the hope some talented developer will continue maintaining and expanding my vision of a modern, sleek forum software. The intrinsic flexibility of MyBB is the true hidden gem of an otherwise outdated codebase; I do hope the project can continue and be updated complying to the latest coding standards.

I hereby thank Euan, kawaii, andrewjs18, Ben, Matt, Omar G., effone, Eric J., Devilshakerz, Wildcard, JordanMussi and all the other team members I have had the opportunity to work with when I was a MyBB team member. I thank Tomm M, my mentor, who inspired me to pick up coding with his piece-of-art plugins. And finally, I thank all of you MyBBoost subscribers who have helped me getting through my toughest university years economically.

Yours sincerely, Filippo

MyDropzone 1.2

18 Oct 2016 Edited
#1
MyDropzone replaces MyBB's default attachments behavior with a reliable drag and drop solution (Dropzone.js) which uses AJAX instead. Uploading an attachment becomes extremely easy and fast.

MyDropzone adds 1 stylesheet and 3 templates which overwrite the default ones during runtime. Existing templates are not edited nor deleted.

Minimum requirements


PHP 5.4
MyBB 1.8.0

Features


MyDropzone does not come with many complicated features other than being a neat replacement for the attachments box, and that's pretty much it. MyDropzone inherits all the existing attachments features – except for approving/unapproving, which is not available in the current version. A special mention goes to Imgur.com support which lets your users upload images anonymously to Imgur.com and the generated URL will be added to their messages as soon as the upload finishes.

Quick reply attachments


MyDropzone adds support for posting attachments from quick reply. However, it does not edit any templates, so in order to use this functionality you need to alter templates by yourself. This decision was made because in the past, many lamented that a particular functionality in other plugins was not working while they were using a custom theme and the search and replace routine was not able to find the associated pattern.

If you want to enable your users to post attachments from quick reply, edit your showthread_quickreply template, and add the following variable wherever you want the box to appear:

{$attachbox
This loads nothing but the post_attachments template as it does in New Reply, New Thread, Edit Post, etc.. Once you style the attachment box, quick reply automatically inherits the same styling.

Multiple attachments simultaneously


MyDropzone supports uploading multiple attachments at the same time. Just drag and drop how many attachments you want to upload, and it will handle all of them at once till the maximum limit (which inherits from the attachments system settings) is reached.

This feature is also available on stock MyBB 1.8.19 onwards.

Imgur.com support informations


How to get the Client ID


In order to upload images to Imgur, you need to enter a Client ID in MyDropzone settings, otherwise the plugin will fall back to default server uploading.

If you do not have an Imgur.com account, register for free and go to this page to create a new application. Fill the informations and select Anonymous usage without user authorization under Authorization type.

When you have finished, go to this page and copy the Client ID, add it to MyDropzone settings and enjoy.

Rate limits


Imgur.com limits their API usage to 1250 uploads per day. Although this should be ok with most of MyBB boards out there, if you are running a big board (100k+ users) you may want to switch to normal image handling. For more informations on limitations imposed by Imgur.com, visit this page.

Notice under the attachment box


Due to the fact that MyDropzone does not edit templates, I have added a notice to the mydropzone_attachments_new template informing users that their images are posted to Imgur. If you are not willing to use this feature, delete the corresponding HTML you can find in the template.

Customization


You can completely customize MyDropzone's appearance by tweaking with its templates (MyDropzone Templates Group) and its stylesheet (mydropzone.css). Support will be given when possible.

Compatibility


MyDropzone is compatible with MyBB 1.8.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Browser compatibility is listed on Dropzone.js documentation.

Previews


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Availability


MyDropzone is available for free. WARNING SIGN Support is discontinued due to my departure from programming. Read more why here.


This project is licensed under

MIT


A simple license with little to no use restrictions, except for author's crediting. Read the provided LICENSE file for more informations.

Permissions

Commercial use
Modification
Distribution
Private use
Limitations

Warranty
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LIONHAERT, Hefty, Tac And 2 others like this post
Shade 23 Oct 2016 Edited
#11
I will ASAP. By the way, the implementation is identical to the one seen here on MyBBoost, it's just a different styling which you can edit as you like anyway.
Dr.Jeet 25 Oct 2016
#12
No popup box appear after upload image and click on my attachments.
Eldenroot 25 Oct 2016
#13
Yes, but I cannot see how it looks in full post a thread
Shade 25 Oct 2016
#14
No popup box appear after upload image and click on my attachments.
Dr.Jeet (25 Oct 2016)
Can you elaborate more? I can't understand your issue, there's no popup box intended to fire when you see your attachments.
Shade 1 Nov 2016
#15
Previews attached to the first post.
Eldenroot 1 Nov 2016
#16
Thank you!

Just one thing - is there any way to upload images to the forum, not to the cloud?

And I didnt find it (or I am blind) - can you add multiple attachment at once?
Shade 1 Nov 2016
#17
You can add multiple attachments at once and if with "cloud" you mean "Imgur" yes, you can disable Imgur integration.
Eldenroot 24 Nov 2016
#18
@Shade - can you post the screenshots how it looks in MyBB default theme?

Is it compatible with CKEditor?
Shade 25 Nov 2016
#19
CKEditor is not supported at the moment if you refer to the upload-to-Imgur feature. Otherwise, it is compatible since CKEditor is not related to attachments (or in a way it does not affect MyDropzone's functionalities).

Guess when I lost some data this thread was not restored properly. I will ASAP :)
Eldenroot 5 Dec 2016
#20
OK, no problem. I will wait for next release with CKEditor support (or any editor which works better than SCEditor).

I saw your plugin on one MyBB forum - works really nice with MyBB default theme. I just have some ideas and notes which could be improved/changed. I dont know if the css was changed in that board but there is an issue on mouse hover. The red cross has an ugly background (shown when your file is bigger than limit). Another think - how to add a link to the post for the attachment? Also what about to show full name of the file and replace "delete file" with image icon? Just make it more stylish. Just my 2 cents :) Thank you!