Dropbox integration mod?

Post by **Martin_K** » 05 Dec 2012, 10:14

Our forum is getting quite large because of attachments, making backups take longer and longer.

It has made me think that perhaps it would good to use a free online storage service like dropbox, and have a mod that automatically stores attachments in a Dropbox set up for this purpose.

Dropbox has a folder called 'Public', which allows public access via the image URL it generates for each file:

Eg right click on an image in the public folder of Dropbox to get the public link:

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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1994173/A325EC_1.jpg

gives

when placed in the img BBCode.

What do you think?

Easy to do? The problem might be getting the right links from Dropbox. Maybe another free storage service would be easier?

Post by **Martin_K** » 05 Dec 2012, 10:50

I guess the way it would have to work might be as a button alternative to attachments, that would activate a script to copy the picture over to Dropbox, and get the image URL from Dropbox.

The Dropbox developers page with APIs is here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers

Post by **Stoker** » 05 Dec 2012, 11:39

Why not postimage.org?
The have a mod for phpbb3

Post by **Martin_K** » 05 Dec 2012, 11:58

Thanks, didn't know about that one.