by moderator » Fri Apr 25, 2008 2:52 am
Solution: Not pretty but should work.
Let's allow each member to create a new thread buried in this forum, exclusively for holding pictures. In that thread the owner can post messages which are basically picture place-holders. Add the pictures as you normally do -- that is, as attachments. We don't expect people to look at or read these placeholder threads, it's just there to enable you to upload pictures for use elsewhere. So let's by convention standardise the thread name -- PICTURE PLACEHOLDER ONLY -- so that people know there's no meaningful content. Each person may create their own, or use the standard (shared) one.
Now, after you have uploaded a picture as an attachment in the 'picture holder' thread, view your message, and right-click on the image you want. Select 'properties' or whatever your browser has that is similar. You should see the actual URL of the image. Copy that URL, and use it inside the img tags as described earlier, in your REAL message wherever else in the forum you happen to want it to appear.
The process, then, would be to first upload all your images to the placeholder thread, note down the URLs of each, then go and create your actual message wherever it goes, using those URLs inline wherever you want them.
In this fashiion, you can use this forum as a sort of storage place. I'll start a sticky thread in this forum just for this purpose. Feel free to place your pictures in there and use the above technique.
Cheers
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