Free forum software - any that allow pasting images?

[DT4K]

I'm looking into SMF or phpBB and can't seem to find if there is any way to set these up in a way that would allow someone to paste an image into a post, rather than having to upload it and paste a link or attach a file.

For my purposes, it would be really nice to be able to take a screen capture and post it in a thread without the extra work of saving it somewhere, then having to click a button to attach a file and have to browse to wherever you saved it.

So I was hoping there was some kind of mod or script for SMF or phpBB that would allow that. Any ideas?

 

[Crusty]

There's absolutely nothing server side you can do for this feature, this is all done client side with javascript or a browser addon.

 

[DT4K]

There's absolutely nothing server side you can do for this feature, this is all done client side with javascript or a browser addon.

I'm not familiar with forum software, so wasn't sure if it was possible.
I was hoping that there was javascript that would be part of the forum posting page and would detect the right-click and "paste" (or ctrl-v) and grab the contents of the clipboard and add it to the post.

 

[Crusty]

Well certainly, but it does not have to belong to any particular piece of forum software. There's nothing that prevents you from using any javascript for any generic form and tie that into your software's form submission.

Javascript is designed to run on the clients machine so anything that would automate what a user would do would also need to run on the client machine.

 

[Gillbot]

the typical [ img] tag works with phpBB if that's what you mean.

After rereading your OP, phpBB supports attachments but i'm not sure if it's a mod or native support. My board has an attachment moderation panel in the admin controls so the feature is there.

 

[Ka0t1x]

SMF:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=211.0
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=89.0

phpBB:
- Attach Mod


Modifying these would be quite a pain, as yes you'd need to be using Javascript which may or may not be blocked by the browser to access the Clipboard.

Edit:

You could search for an alternative to CloudApp (mac) if you're using a Windows Environment.

 

[Crusty]

Maybe I read things wrong then? It was my impression that he wanted the ability for a user to have an image in his clipboard, open up a 'New Post' box and hit ctrl-v to paste the image directly into the post. Not a link to the image, but the actual image data.

 

[Ka0t1x]

Edit: I misread the post. Its been a long day in the cube. See post above is about your only option.

 

[wwswimming]

phpBB allows you to post images in posts.

 

[DT4K]

Maybe I read things wrong then? It was my impression that he wanted the ability for a user to have an image in his clipboard, open up a 'New Post' box and hit ctrl-v to paste the image directly into the post. Not a link to the image, but the actual image data.

This is exactly correct. Maybe people are mis-reading "pasting images" as "posting images".

The reason I'm asking about this is because I'm thinking of using SMF or phpBB as a sort of knowledge base and communication tool for our IT department. When we have solved an issue, we often want to share this solution with the rest of our team in case it comes up again. Right now, we just email everyone with the solution and we almost always include multiple screenshots to help explain the issue and the solution. So we are used to just capturing a screenshot and doing a ctrl-v in the message body in Outlook.

It's not a huge deal, but being able to copy and paste would be easier and faster than having to capture the screenshot, save the file somewhere, than attach it to a forum post. That's why I figured I'd ask if there was anything like this available in forum software.