04-15-2010, 05:16 PM
OK I'll bite :wink:
I think it might be common among users to finally locate a thread with the information you've been searching for, and the poster has placed an image... only the image is either no longer in the /files/ folder. Although infinite image hosting space would be awesome (hehe) that doesn't solve the problem for all the historical links and their 404 errors.
I don't know if there is such a plugin or one can be custom-coded, but if, at run-time, the display could insert a graphical 'X' icon or something like that next to links that go nowhere, rather than require RAT users to test the link and cross their fingers, that would improve the user experience. I did a quick search for PHPBB hacks and such and nothing jumped out at me, but it seems that as long as the PHPBB code isolates uploaded image links somehow (so you don't have to crawl all the HTML) and allows you to do a conditional check at run-time like this:
I don't think there would be a performance hit.
--Kelsey
I think it might be common among users to finally locate a thread with the information you've been searching for, and the poster has placed an image... only the image is either no longer in the /files/ folder. Although infinite image hosting space would be awesome (hehe) that doesn't solve the problem for all the historical links and their 404 errors.
I don't know if there is such a plugin or one can be custom-coded, but if, at run-time, the display could insert a graphical 'X' icon or something like that next to links that go nowhere, rather than require RAT users to test the link and cross their fingers, that would improve the user experience. I did a quick search for PHPBB hacks and such and nothing jumped out at me, but it seems that as long as the PHPBB code isolates uploaded image links somehow (so you don't have to crawl all the HTML) and allows you to do a conditional check at run-time like this:
Quote:if (file_exists(/path/to/file)) {
...
}
I don't think there would be a performance hit.
--Kelsey
Kelsey McLeod
