[CDB] Digests 3.2.11

[colinshead]

Hi Frank

I had only pasted a snippet from the link, the actual failing link is:

<a
href="https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/ ... 2642"><img
src="https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/ ... d=2642&t=1"
alt="" title="" /></a>

and this renders in Thunderbird and Gmail as:

see this link https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/email.jpg

Changing the link to https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/ ... d/test.jpg within the same <a> and all is well.

Why can't we post attachments in this forum ?

All the best

Colin

[canonknipser]

I had only pasted a snippet from the link, the actual failing link is:

<a href="https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/ ... 2642"><img src="https://www.forum.leisureowners.org.uk/ ... 2&t=1"alt="" title="" /></a>

OK, that should be a proper syntax. Did you check the permissions for that specific forum? You need to have enabled guest access to attachments ("can download..."), because I don't expect Thunderbird passing the user's credentials to the board to identify the user.
The direct link to the image file bypasses the permissions system of phpBB, so maybe that's the reason for the image being presented.

[colinshead]

Hi Frank

You are correct, allowing guest access to download files sorts the problem.

Only issue now is "can I permit access on security grounds" !!, but that's definitely my problem as forum administrator !

All the best

Colin

[MarkDHamill]

I'm wondering if there is some sort of redirection trick that would solve the problem. I'd definitely put on note on the Thunderbird forums to see if anyone has a workaround.

[colinshead]

Hi Mark

Opening up 'guest' access (see Frank's posts) certainly does the trick, and as in our case only paid up forum members can get Digest e-mails, then the security issue is not overly difficult, as unless the Digest e-mails are shared with others, then the URL's will remain private to the forum user group. In any event in our case there is nothing sensitive on our forum which needs much protection.

In the wider context I think you need to warn other Digest users of the issue in the installation instructions. Unfortunately I don't see how phpBB could actually 'empower' remote email clients with the authority to access protected files. The only (and nigh on impossible) scheme I can think of is for the Digests extension to grab the files, and create plain old .jpg's or similar from them, store them somewhere and link them into the Digest e-mails !!

Thank you again for your help and guidance.

All the best

Colin

[MarkDHamill]

There may be ways to encapsulate photos inside the digest. I haven't looked into this and given that a digest can be very large I'm not sure that would make sense. But presumably encapsulated images would address the issue.

[canonknipser]

the Digests extension to grab the files, and create plain old .jpg's or similar from them, store them somewhere and link them into the Digest e-mails !!

No need to create any "Plain old .jpg's or similar", because the files are already there. phpBB just stores them under a unique random file name in the files-folder. You can grab the storage systems filename from the attachment table (the attachment-id is in the file.php-parameter id, the file name on the storage system is in physical_filename). If there is a thumbnail-file for images (thumbnail = 1), you can use the physical filename prepended by a string thumb_ to link the smaller image. The mime-type for the file you can grab from column mimetype to determine if you have a image (img-link) or a different sort of file (standard-a-link). The path for linking attachments directly is http://example.org/files (example.org is your boards address)

[LCSF082]

I'm having trouble installing this extension. I am new to phpbb as well as this forum. I've never installed an extension before, so please bear with my question.

I downloaded the zip file from the first post on this thread and extracted it into a new digest folder under /ext/phpbbservices/digest. (presently in a local host environment, so the complete folder path is: C:\Website Development\apache2\htdocs\forum\ext\phpbbservices\digest). It created a sub-folder named digests-master.

When I go to ACP, I do not see the extension to enable it, nor do I see a heading for "Disabled Extensions" as described in the phpbb instrucitons (https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/installing/)

Any help would be appreciated.

[MarkDHamill]

The files are placed in /ext/phpbbservices/digests.

If you are grabbing them off the GitHub master, I found one error doing the same thing today for a client. In /acp/main_module.php, line 1568 is:

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					foreach (new \DirectoryIterator($path) as $file_info)

before it add:

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					$path = $this->phpbb_root_path . 'store/phpbbservices/digests';

Placed properly, it should appear on the list of extensions and you can thus enable it.

The procedure for installing extension is right on the extensions page, but if you need more there's this page:

https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/installing/

[LCSF082]

I made the corrections you suggested in main_module.php. No change. I see no extensions listed in the ACP extension management area other than VigLink. I moved the extracted files from: C:\Website Development\apache2\htdocs\forum\ext\phpbbservices\digest\digests-master
to: C:\Website Development\apache2\htdocs\forum\ext\phpbbservices\digest
Also no change. I still see no extension listed other than VigLink.

BTW, I downloaded the extension from the link in the very first posting of this thread.

Step 3 in https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/installing/ states:
3. Enable
Once the extension has been uploaded, navigate in the board's ACP to Customise -> Manage extensions. You should see your recently uploaded extension listed under "Disabled Extensions". Simply click its "Enable" button and installation is complete!

I do not see any heading labled "Disabled Extensions" anywhere with any items listed.

My installation is phpbb version 3.2.4 in a localhost environment accessed via: http://localhost:81/forum/
The php config.php file is located in: C:\Website Development\apache2\htdocs\forum

Any other suggestions?

[MarkDHamill]

The problem is the digest-master directory is not used. GitHub creates this because of the way the project is laid out in GitHub. Move the files in it up to the parent folder and then remove digest-master folder which is not needed.

[Praggle]

Maybe he is also still missing the "s" at the end of digests: \ext\phpbbservices\digests\

[LCSF082]

Praggle,
That was it. I missed the trailing 's'. Got it installed. So far so good.
Thank You

[LCSF082]

All installed and working. It works great. Thank you for your effort.

I do believe I have some settings incorrect for what I would like. Is there another thread or FAQ area that I can search easily to help me out or should I just post my novice questions on this thread? My first issue is that I thought I had setup the user for 'daily' digests, however the user received a notification email immediately after a new topic was created on a board they were 'subscribed' to. I would like to have the notifications sent out no more frequently than once per day for most forums. Although for some forums the immediate notification might be useful. I'm not sure which setting needs to be changed to accomplish this.

[MarkDHamill]

Digests are not the same as phpBB notifications. You can request a feature change to phpBB's notification system, but I believe it sends just one email when a new topic or reply is posted and waits for you to visit the board before sending any more.