Add-on [XF2] Guest view image attachments

[Anomandaris]

I see several posts asking for functionality that allows the Guest usergroup to view attachments but limit it to picture attachments only. This would be useful for image extraction when posting to social media as you could make it pull images attached in the thread rather than your opengraph image resulting in better social media posts. Many good posts with hot linked images result in 404 years later when the hosts either remove them or disappear all together. Well ranked landing pages with image attachments result in a poor experience for guests as well.

I am aware you can allow guests to access all attachments but many admins would like for guests to see the content inlcuding images, but be forced to register if they want to download the "download". I think this issue is largely resolved when you use the Resource Manager but I have thousands of thread attachments and won't be moving them all to the resource manager (unless someone makes some awesome converter that does that, would be amazing as well).

Thanks for reading or if you have any suggestions please let us know

 

[Anomandaris]

An alternative solution could be an addon that detects image attachments based on file extension, and instead of attaching the picture it uploads the picture to a image directory and hotlinks the image via a regular URL in img tags. Seems like this may be easier perhaps

 

[CNK]

Has anyone solved this problem? I very need option: View image attachments to posts for guests

 

[Mr. Wah]

Yeah, still having this issue. the "Unregistered/Guest" group's Permissions even have the "View Attachments" Permissions set.

 

[Anomandaris]

I think this addon idea still has merit. Attached images are part of the content restricting them to viewers only is obnoxious.

We want to force people to register if they want to download the attached download, but not to view pictures which are part of the content

if (attachment.type == image)
{
ShowImage();
}

else
{
//UserMustLoginToDownloadAttachment
}

 

[HardikS]

Where to add this code ? I mean which template need to modify ?

 

[Anomandaris]

Where to add this code ? I mean which template need to modify ?

it's psuedocode just to explain the concept, it's not real code, noone has provided code or an addon to do this yet which is why it's in the request section

 

[SyTry]

Hello, with my friend @CRUEL-MODZ at @XenSoluce we are going to share an add-on to do this for free !

Regards, SyTry

 

[SyTry]

Hello,

Like we said, here is the free one :

[Xen-Soluce] Display Visitor Attachments

Description : This add-on allow you to let the guest usergroup to view attachments. Feature summary : Options : Enable for threads : Enable the option for threads Allowed extensions for visitor attachments Branding : This add-on does not...

xenforo.com

Regards, SyTry

 

[Anomandaris]

Hello,

Like we said, here is the free one :

[Xen-Soluce] Display Visitor Attachments

Description : This add-on allow you to let the guest usergroup to view attachments. Feature summary : Options : Enable for threads : Enable the option for threads Allowed extensions for visitor attachments Branding : This add-on does not...

xenforo.com

Regards, SyTry

huge thank you!