Hey Z-Man,

Yeah, I did consider that as well. The main thing I don't like about that solution is it still requires an extra step for the user (uploading to their photo album, then grabbing the url). Also, users may not want their forum post images showing up on the news feed or elsewhere on the site for privacy reasons. The Summernote control (www.summernote.org), which is already used by the Forum component, provides a way to do this pretty easily as I mentioned earlier (tbh I'm a little surprised this wasn't already implemented since Forum is a paid component, but no worries). Just add javascript initialization code for onImageUpload to Forum/plugins/default/forum/js.php, and then add server-side processing code to store your image file. The JS would be something like:

onImageUpload: function(files, editor, welEditable) {
                sendFile(files[0], editor, welEditable);
            }
        });
        function sendFile(file, editor, welEditable) {
            data = new FormData();
            data.append("file", file);
            $.ajax({
                data: data,
                type: "POST",
                url: "Your URL POST (php)",
                cache: false,
                contentType: false,
                processData: false,
                success: function(url) {
                    editor.insertImage(welEditable, url);
                }
            });

And the PHP code to process the uploads:

if ($_FILES['file']['name']) {
            if (!$_FILES['file']['error']) {
                $name = md5(rand(100, 200));
                $ext = explode('.', $_FILES['file']['name']);
                $filename = $name . '.' . $ext[1];
                $destination = '/uploads/' . $filename; //change this directory
                $location = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
                move_uploaded_file($location, $destination);
                echo 'http://test.yourdomain.al/uploads/' . $filename;//change this URL
            }
            else
            {
              echo  $message = 'Ooops!  Your upload triggered the following error:  '.$_FILES['file']['error'];
            }
        }

Thanks for sharing that interesting idea.

Speaking for myself, I'm always thinking twice before using a third party service for storing stuff- so why not simply retrieve the image(s) from one of my own Ossn photo albums? Actually, it's quite easy:

• Using the DD button, I'm logging in to https://newblue.ongolito.net/ as DemoDuck
• I'm adding a new album named 'media' to the photos section of my profile https://newblue.ongolito.net/u/demoduck/photos
• I'm uploadeding the photo (to be later inserted in the forum) into that media album
• Clicking the photo gives a link like https://newblue.ongolito.net/photos/view/1892
• Using Firefox or Chrome and RIGHT clicking the photo is offering an option like "Copy image address"
• Doing so will save an url like https://newblue.ongolito.net/album/getphoto/574/68891a0f0ea2871612ef554a7567500c.png?size=view in my copy/paste buffer
• Jumping to Forum section now, clicking the 'picture' button and paste the buffered photo address is all that's left to do. See https://newblue.ongolito.net/forum/topic/329/topic1

The same will work with the Editor used in the Blog component, SitePages, etc.