FileBase Beta Testing

[SoUlFaThEr]

good job on it then

[@$3.1415rin]

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

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

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 ?

[stefanhendriks]

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

[Onno Kreuzinger]

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//.. 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

[Onno Kreuzinger]

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

[@$3.1415rin]

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

[Onno Kreuzinger]

hell yes :-)

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

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

[sPlOrYgOn]

looks almost identical 8o