Document Attachments

[CaptainBlue]

I'm looking to deploy vBulletin on a new server and new domains. The use will be for a regional committee and as such part of the reason for setting up the site will be for members to upload attachments in the following formats:

1) .doc Word documents
2) .xls Excel spreadsheets
3) .pdf Acrobat PDFs
4) .ppt/.pps Powerpoint presentations

Three questions:

a) does vBulletin accept these attachment formats?
b) as the db size is limited, can the location of uploaded documents be specified outside the db (I think it can, but need confirmation)?
c) what happens if the same filename has already been used?

[Boxy]

vBulletin allows you to specify which file extension you want to accept on your board. In addition you can choose whether to store the attachment in the database or in a file system.

You are also able to specify the file size of each of the file extensions.

When storing the attachement in a file system, they are stored with unique id's and the attachment name so there is no danger of an attachment being overwritten.


If using the database to store the attachments then the true name of the attachment is stored and used.

[Boxy]

I just edited my previous post :)

[CaptainBlue]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'll just need to wait for the go-ahead now.

[CaptainBlue]

I just edited my previous post :)

:D

I noticed ;)