Questions about licenses and where media are stored.

[TechBill]

We maintain a forum with over 20,000 member since 1997 and we are considering about switching over to Xenforo forums but we have a couple of questions.

On our existing forum, we allows member to upload photos, embedded videos and non-executable file like pdf firmware etc into their posts.

Does XenForo license cover this or do we need to purchase a Media Gallery license to allow them to upload and attach photos or video in their forums?

Does XenForo allow member to upload videos into their post or they can only embed video from other sites into their post? Can other files type be uploaded and attached like a pdf or non-executable file?

How are the attachment that members upload stored on site? In the database or as a flat file on the web server?

Does Xenforo administrator have a feature where it can mass delete all photos or attachments at a certain date and older but keeping the post intact and searchable? We want to be able to keep posts 10 years or older but not the attachments in the post? Is that what Resource Manager is for?

Can the XenForo create and set a forum where that members that been registered with only X amounts of days and have X amount of posts in other forums can access to this specific forum? We have classified forums but only accessible by members who been a members longer than 30 days and have made at least certain amount of posts before they could view or post in classified forum.

Thank you
Bill

 

[Chris D]

Does XenForo license cover this or do we need to purchase a Media Gallery license to allow them to upload and attach photos or video in their forums?

Yes attachment uploading is supported in the standard license.

Does XenForo allow member to upload videos into their post or they can only embed video from other sites into their post? Can other files type be uploaded and attached like a pdf or non-executable file?

You can upload videos to posts but they wouldn't be embedded in the lost with a video player; they’d just download or open in a new tab. You can upload videos to the gallery and embed them in posts.

How are the attachment that members upload stored on site? In the database or as a flat file on the web server?

They are stored on the file system.

Does Xenforo administrator have a feature where it can mass delete all photos or attachments at a certain date and older but keeping the post intact and searchable? We want to be able to keep posts 10 years or older but not the attachments in the post? Is that what Resource Manager is for?

There’s no such functionality unfortunately. There is an Attachment Browser in the Admin CP but it will be a case of deleting them one at a time through there.

Can the XenForo create and set a forum where that members that been registered with only X amounts of days and have X amount of posts in other forums can access to this specific forum? We have classified forums but only accessible by members who been a members longer than 30 days and have made at least certain amount of posts before they could view or post in classified forum.

Yes XenForo has a user promotions system which will promote users to a special user group if they meet certain criteria. That user group can then be given access to that forum.

 

[TechBill]

Yes attachment uploading is supported in the standard license.

You can upload videos to posts but they wouldn't be embedded in the lost with a video player; they’d just download or open in a new tab. You can upload videos to the gallery and embed them in posts.


They are stored on the file system.


There’s no such functionality unfortunately. There is an Attachment Browser in the Admin CP but it will be a case of deleting them one at a time through there.


Yes XenForo has a user promotions system which will promote users to a special user group if they meet certain criteria. That user group can then be given access to that forum.

I knew I forgot ask a question.

Can Xenforo automatically scale down images after it uploaded but before it attached to a post?

We got folks on our forums that uses smartphone to take photos and upload to their post but many of them are huge in size.

Thank you for speedy responses.
Bill

 

[Chris D]

Yes you just set the max width / height and anything that exceeds those dimensions will be scaled down.