can you/i/we do this?

[keith2004]

first of all let me congratulate you on a great hosting site.Whilst ive been researching to find a host for my project i have seen many hosting sites and this is by far one of the best.

anyway.

im planning on purchasing a domainname and 1 years hosting from you.i have a budget or around $125

what im looking for is an image upload script that i could intergrate into phpbb`s member system.

for example:
a user joins my forum using the username fred

and is given a message:

Thankyou for joining your account will be activated within 24hrs.

i come along and activate the account and also create a directory for fred on my domain
e.g www.mydomain.com/fred

now fred comes back to the forum and logs in the usual way using his username and password.

once logged in fred goes to his edit profilepage and along with the usual information boxes fred is presented with a input box to allow him to browse his harddrive and upload images to his directory.

if possible i would also like him to be able to view what files are already there and be able to delete them too.

ive searched and searched all the phpbb forums and cannot find the answer,i thought a possibility may be one of the gallery programmes such as egallery,gallery or coppermine but none of them seeem to handle the images the way i need.

the only formats i need are jpeg and gif but i want to make sure it is done properly because as you know there are many security holes in image upload scripts.

im not a php newbie but im not an expert either so i was wondering if you would help me with this?

i also can only pay for my hosting using paypal,will that be a problem

regards

Keith

[NexDog]

Hi Keith,

I know there are many galley hacks for vbulletin (like this board) but I don't know enough about phpbb as I don't personally use it. However, there are many phpbb users here and someone might be able to point you in the right direction.

As for the hosting, payment via PayPal is fine and there is an option to pay via that method after you submit the signup form.

[keith2004]

that was quick

ok cool

unfortunately i dont know enough about how vbulletin works to try using that.
I may be able to figure it out myself or try and find an alternative way around it...

and like you said there are many phpbb user on this board and others to assist me if i run into difficulties..

dont worry im still going to buy your hosting
im very impressed with the way you approach your service and site and the amount of members,interest,and reading material this forum has is testimony to that.


few more questions though:

if i purchase your shared business plan (NexBusiness)for $99.95/yr does that give me the facilty to create the subdirectories i need and also ,as a possible solution to my problem,to manually give my users an ftp acount with the same user and password as the forum to give them access only to their subdirectory..?

and if possible only allow uploading of jpeg,gif

could this be a possibility

[MikeMann]

With NexBusiness you get 10 subdomains. There is only one ftp/username combination that can be given to each domain here. Now if you setup the subdomains, you can give each one its own separate username/password.

If you could come up with a few dollar more than the stated 125 budget (129.95) you can get the July monthly promo package which would make you a reseller and eligible for unlimited subdomains.

[keith2004]

SOLD

i think that would be my best solution...

i didnt see the promo where is it?

do i have to register my domain before the hosting account?

[NexDog]

The allowing of uploading certain file extensions will depend on the script you are using and if you found such a script, I'm sure it will create a subdirectory for each member that joins and they would be able to upload from the script interface and not via FTP.

damn, that was one sentence

[NexDog]

Promotions available here:

http://www.hostnexus.com/solutions/promotions.htm

And you can get the domain before or after - whichever suits you the best. You will be able to develop the site before a domain propagates to the server etc.

[keith2004]

sorry to be a pain in the ass guys i apprecite your help.

i just signed up for the reseller account you suggested and everything went smoothly

now where do i go to register my domain name and point it to my hosting account?
my account name is Anthony by the way

[NexDog]

No pain at all.

You can register a domain at http://nexusdomains.net and please let Chris know the domain and a user/pass too as it's missing on your order form.

[keith2004]

ok.. sent chris a user and pass and got all my hosting details back.

now i just went to register a domain and it tells me i need a creditcard,

like i said in my first post i dont have a creditcard and i can only pay with paypal

what do i do?