FileBase Beta Testing
 

Hi ppls,

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http://filebase.bots-united.com

ok, this is also WIP :-) so here are the updates:
now you only have to log into this forum to get upload access to the filebase, also remember, you can put downloads in the filebase which link to files elswhere on the net, you do not need to upload them again here if they are allready downloadable elswere, so let this become the link & download colletion for bot related software ;)

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i fixed up the filebase (paFileDB 3.1) to work in our secure server enviroment thats no joke, most software won't work out-of-the-box here.
and i made it even secure (which it is not by design), so i added some admins but no regular users (called Team Members in paFileDB).
also you can now use your forum login to log into the filebase

A small introduction is found here:
http://server.bots-united.com/wiki/i...hp/UseFilebase

please see the wiki link and add your wishes there, i will check it up in 2-4 days time :-)

The filebase admins allready added can get/set their accout by using root in paFileDB login or simply asking me via PM or email.

cheers ok

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i logged in. I think it works, but i won't add a file yet. When will we use this for sure?

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_i_ will use it, i managed to get the vb3 forum user/pass to be used for authenticating the "Team Members".
It should be used, that is shure, nova complained to me about attachments eating up the mysql server resources. but you do not need to re-upload all the stuff you allready have linked on your webpage, the paFileDB will also work with urls pointing to other urls than its own up/download area. e.g. your realbot page...

so the only todo left, is make it look like the rest of the bu webpage. i will ask pmb about that.

cheers

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can you add me to the team member list so i can test an upload for you?

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i just managed to get the filebase use this forum's database for user authentication, so you should be able to login with the same username/pass as here in this forum.
if you need more categories just tell me, or any other filebase admin.
see wiki http://server.bots-united.com/wiki/i...hp/UseFilebase
and the wishlist http://server.bots-united.com/wiki/i...lebaseWishlist

cheers Onno

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You've been doing insane amounts of work for our server Onno. Thumbs up...

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very nice Onno! :)

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*g* thx for the flowers, thats what i'm here for 8)

the filebase user management is now completely removed, so to say, all admins with usergroupid higher than 5 (6 and up) are now able to log into the filebase Admin area using the normal forum login. resulting of this, no user/admin editing in the filebase makes sense, the vb3 forum database won't be edited from the filebase pages ;)

also the rating feature is removed, it was not working and did not threw errors in any log, so after trying to fix it for an hour or two i decided to remove that pointless feature anyways.

also the first upload (from Count Floyd) was made, i encourage all mods to add categories in the filebase, prefeably befor adding files ;)

so todo's left over are making a BU style (i leave that to you PMB:D) , removing the defunctional leftovers of the filebase usermanagement and finaly enforcing the use of the filebase, by verifying big uploads in the filebase and limmiting uploads to the forum.
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next big thing: make the filebase detect and use the vb3 cookie, thus providing true single sign on :)

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i uploaded a file to the waypoint for podbot section......

check it out.....it works good

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jep, the system works as expected, that is what i wan't :-)

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good job on it then :)

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nice work ... should we already use the filebase for links on our download pages ?

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I believe the sooner the better, have something against it Onno ?

oh and also, I've seen that the filebase can feature "links" to "external files", that is, files that are not uploaded on the filebase... Is it better to upload everything to the filebase or can/should we use such external links ?

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i will use this filebase when i will release my new version of RB. I don't think that should be a problem? :)

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If you link to external (not BU server) it saves bandwith :)

if you link to files allready elsewhere on the bu server you only "lack" the feature of disallowing direct linking and counting through the filebase.
one feature of the filebase is the counting of downloads, which is only reliable if all downloads are made using the filebase "download file" button. but that can be done by analysing the apache logs as well, so the feature is only to present the stats to the user/downloader on the fly and make rankings by download popularity.
a nice-to-have thinggy.


btw. you can simly "move" the files to filebase/uploads/<optional-subdir>/.. and then add/edit the link in the filebase db.

i'm working an automatic filesize detection, which will add this information to the database, the sql query is allready 40% ready...
until its done automatic, it is a filed which te uploader should fill with some reasonable data.

cheers

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Hey,
upps i did it again :)

after logging into the forum you are also logged into the filebase !

you now do not need to login for the filebase, i edited the vb3 login.php, the pafiledb cookie is now set when loggin into the vb3 forum software *g*

admins do still need to login for admin access, and login out from the filebase won't clear the vb3 forum cookie, and oh it all only works with cookies.

so now i think it's close to perfect, and PMB is allready workning on the layout, but please don't bugg him while he is still working on it ;)

cheers

/edit if it does not work for you, logout and re-login, its realy edited a few minutes ago

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i'm linking the sourceforge stuff thru the filebase. according to the counting on sf this saves us apprx 30gb of traffic per month

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hell yes :-)

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The Filebase reskinning is FINALLY finished. It's almost integrated with the forum now. Please review it and tell me if you find bugs.

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looks almost identical 8o

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looks and works great!
big WOOT! goes out to BU crew! You guys just dont stop for a second!

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there's one bug though

it is possible to register files without uploading them, i.e, it is possible to "upload no file". The result is a download slot with nothing in it.

I'll fix that later... *yawn*

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nice work man.......never cease to amaze

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very neat skin pmb! good job!

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can I, as a member, create a new category under waypoints?

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no, for now only mods amd admins can create categories. so just tell soulfather (the waypoint forum mod) or me (server admin) what categories you need, preferably including some descriptive text like other categories have, but that only to make's it easier to create that category :-)

cheers

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i set up your thing for you Dead Bwoy, check the filebase waypoints page.

Onno is it possible to set a REORDER for the subcategories too?

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OK folks, I've been hacking some PHP again and I believe a certain number of bugs in the filebase are fixed.

- It is now impossible to validate a "new file" if a minimal number of parameters have not been filled, namely: "name" and "download URL".
- Added 2 more error messages for those
- Fixed the error message display : they should display correctly (in a neat page) now and not with weird colours in a weird table
- Deleting a file from the filebase now also deletes the file from the hard disk if this file has been previously uploaded to the filebase (no more "orphan files" in /uploads).

I take it they work, but I haven't been testing all this very thoroughly.

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thanks soulfather!
how about a link back to the forums on the top menu bar?

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nice one!:D

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ok for the orphaned files, i will make my delete script a check script and generate some mail automatically to be send to the filebase manager ;)