On Fri, October 14, 2005 6:03 pm, Jason Kovacs wrote: > 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 don't think PDF embedded into pages exists... Not saying for sure it doesn't, and sure not saying it SHOULDN'T, but I've told them it ain't happening for them in the time-frame we've got. :-) > 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. Sweet! > 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, Please do! > but the PDF file management is up to you. Oh yeah. That's for sure. > 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. It certainly sounds like a very good solution. Be really nifty if fckEditor folks took a look at it and considered adding it as a feature. We can't be the only ones needing this kind of thing. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
