upload problems

You need to enable the upload features from the admin area and also give permission on the forum or for a user group to upload files and or images in the forums you wish this to be available in.

Files are not placed in the database.

Checks are carried out to see if the file already exsists on the server and if it does the file is renamed.

Placing files in the database is very bad for performance especially with access as it would only take 10, 1Mb size files and your database would be over 10Mb in size slowing down the entire forum. Extraction of the files from the database is also slower.

In the next version files and images will also be placed in a folder named after the user for easier tracking of who has uploaded what.

Also the avatar uploading in the next version will only be available once a user is registered, thuse adding more security as unregistered users will not be able to upload avatars.

There is a mod in the mods forum that will place files and images in folders named after the user.

It is far slower storing images and files in a database, this is why it is not done very often.

Soring images on the server in folders is the same as storing any image on the web server and only a link to the image is stored in the post stored in the database.

This way when a post is placed in a page the link to the image works in the same way as a link to any image on your web site. If the image was also stored in the database it would have to be stored as binary format and there would be the need to open anther resource heavy connection to the database inorder to get the image, add to it also 200 images per month in the database your database would become very large very quickly slowing down the forum. Disk space is cheap and won't effect performance so it is the cheapest and optimal way to store the images and files.