Extension for pasting content rather than uploading

RobinKolk

Hi guys!

I've been looking around but couldn't find anything, is there an plugin which makes it possible to just paste images into the text? I know there is a plugin to upload images but just pasting would be even easier!

Thanks in advance!

Robin

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There is a image attach extension , but I don't think it captures images from the clipboard.

Franz

I don't think that's actually possible on a website. Have you seen that functionality anywhere on the web?

wignu

Franz I don't think that's actually possible on a website. Have you seen that functionality anywhere on the web?

Xenforo has that capability as well

jacko

Franz I don't think that's actually possible on a website. Have you seen that functionality anywhere on the web?

LikeReply

Google Inbox has it as well as the other web apps mentioned earlier.

wignu Xenforo has that capability as well

I didn't know that and I have had Xenforo forum for many years now ?

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Gmail has it, and a quick search turned up this discussion, so it's possible but not that easy to implement.

Franz

[deleted] Wow, that's interesting, thanks for digging that up!

I'd say for now it should be part of an extension...

jordanjay29

Drag and drop might be more useful than pasting content.

datitisev

jordanjay29 Well, copying & pasting is also useful for images on the web without downloading them and you want to upload them to your own Flarum server instead of whatever server that images uses.
Confusing ?

meetdilip

Woltlab's Burning Board has it as well.

RobinKolk

I got this functionality on my DokuWiki (with this plugin : https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:imgpaste) and I did just found an flarum extension that would suppose to work : https://github.com/sthinteresting/imageattachments but there is an security risk in that. Any more advice would be great, will try the github extension later but since it isn't updated in a while I suppose it won't work anymore... ?

wignu

The warning the author has I think is not so much a security one but that anyone can just upload as many images of whatever size they like with I guess a possible impact on your site. Although there could possibly be a security issue if non-picture files were dragged over??

I think that'd be great if there were limits around the number of images plus size limits.

RobinKolk

I tried getting it back to work but I haven succeeded yet ? It needs to be updated for the new flarum release, even things as package name etc are missing! Maybe someone is bored and want to give it a shot?
If so thank you very much already!

I am very new to flarum extension developing and not an very experienced programmer, so if I would try it it would take a long time :/

Davis

RobinKolk I think this should be a pull request to the flagrow/flarum-ext-imageupload extension instead of trying to revive an extension from September of 2015.

RobinKolk

The one I posted also supports drag and drop by the way! So if we would get that working I think a lot of people would think of it as an neat add-on!

RobinKolk

I got hold of the developer of the other extensions and he didn't want to update the extension because flarum wouldn't update fast enough. So and pull request for flagrow/flarum-ext-imageupload would be best I suppose too ?!

Davis

RobinKolk I took a look at it for a minute and couldn't get it working. The PasteData returned false. I'm probably doing it wrong, honestly. I don't really have the time to mess around with it, sorry.

RobinKolk

I also tried to get it working by messing around with the code, with in my mind that the JS and other code still should be compatable and maybe only the event listeners etc should be changed. But I didn't got it too working also ? I'll be patient ?