Richard Lynch said the following on Friday, October 14, 2005 3:39 PM:
So... Do I: A) Attempt to hack fckEditor to "allow" a PDF to get uploaded, and then display a link to the PDF instead of alink to the fckEditor output. B) Give them a separate, possibly confusing, input to upload files to tie in as links to the fckEditor area
I've had success with this, creating a seperate utility to upload documents to the filesystem and keeping track of them in mysql. I chose to allow displaying the PDF's and Doc's through links in the FCKEditor content, because I have never found a way to embed the PDF data into pages. I added a custom drop-down menu to FCKEditor's Link window that fills in the URL upon selecting the menu item, but this url consisted of just a path to a redirect.php script where I set a GET variable to the ID of the document, then passing through the PDF or DOC data. Though you could link the full path to the PDF in the URL, I just had my documents stored behind the web-accessible address. Every time a new document was uploaded, I decided to write the URL's statically to a file that the FCKEditor script (changed fck_link.html to fck_link.php) will read into Javascript arrays, as opposed to accessing the DB every time this Link window was viewed. I added about 50 lines of Javascript code to fck_link.php to do what I wanted in setting the URL from the Select list. I must warn you though, every time that I upgrade FCKEditor, I have to reapply the changes I've done and there is the possibility that the FCKEditor scripts may change to cause compatibility problems. Let me know if you are interested in this route and I can post my alterations to FCKEditor, but the PDF file management is up to you. I've had many non-technical users working with this utility just fine for about 6 months, so it works and though its not the most graceful implementation from a developer's standpoint, it makes the user interface easiest to work with. -Jason Kovacs -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
