Sadly, if someone uses their own ISP for image hosting, post and image here, and then leaves said ISP, the images will show up as a broken link in the year, like, 2015 when someone is reading about how to do whatever. I know I'm reaching here but that's why Phil created the upload feature for his Q&A forum. The images are stored on server and forever immortilzed. I'm not saying you should do that here Shwan, but I thought I should mention it.

-- Colin Miller (ckmiller@pond.net), February 05, 2000

Answers

Alan Gibson explained this to me recently. There are two servers for the forums, and one of them has all the advanced features (profiles, image loading into the database) and the other doesn't. Most forums don't run on the one with the full feature set, so there is no way to do it here.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeffs@hyperreal.org), February 05, 2000.

emailing Phil and begging might do it once the site takes off, i.e., if he thinks it's valid...have to wait and see I guess. shawn

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 05, 2000.

Now that its been 5 minutes since I posted this, I have done some comtemplating. If no one ever leaves their ISP we will be fine!!!!!

-- Colin Miller (ckmiller@pond.net), February 05, 2000.

Yes it will always be a problem that links will break as people move on and do not maintain their old sites. One way to avoid this is for everyone to use Phil's Photo presentation service as their posting site. Once one is a member of photo.net they can also start a presentation there. It is a two step process 1) post in the presentation, and then 2) link to the presentation in your question/answer here. Others have tried to get Phil to update LUSENET to accept image upload with no success.

-- Brian Willis (bwillis@oswego.edu), February 05, 2000.

Sorry, this would have been a better link to Phil's presentation site.

-- Brian Willis (bwillis@oswego.edu), February 05, 2000.

I'm a little confused about the possibility of adding an image-download section to the site. I am aware now that I can't just plug-in Phil's photo.net version, but does that mean I can't modify THIS site in such a way as to allow for images to be stored on Phil's server?

For Example, could the "Ask a Question" page be modified such that, if someone chooses "Image Critique" as a category, they are led to another page where they can download their image, then be bounced back to finish the process?

If it is possible to do this, I'd love to enlist someone with the knowledge and how-to ability...

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 06, 2000.

The software that runs this forum can't do that. It could be modified, of course. You could download it to your own server (i.e. a computer that is permanently connected to the Internet), and modify the software to do whatever tricks you want.

On the other hand, if you are going to the trouble of running your own server, there is other freely-available forum software that makes image-uploading easier.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan@snibgo.com), February 07, 2000.

Really just curious, Alan, and lazy, but do you have an url on hand from which I can download a 'programmable source/code' version of this software? I can always grab a few good books, and Phil's wed-based info, and play around. If I do get something, then great. 10 years ago I studing programming at college, I'm just not up at all on GUI and the new languages (anyone remember CoBOL?--circa the Dagguerotype era...).

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 08, 2000.

http://software.arsdigita.com/ has the gory stuff, with documentation under there in www/doc. Or you could start with the Virtual CD-ROM at http://demo.webho.com/, or the book at http://www.photo.net/wtr/theb ook/.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan@snibgo.com), February 08, 2000.

My browser has suddenly decided to insert random line-breaks, wrecking my HTML. Anyhow, you should see three HTTP addresses in the above, so you can cut and paste.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan@snibgo.com), February 08, 2000.

Thanks Alan, I'll check them out tonight...shawn

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), February 08, 2000.