I'm storing custom images on our servers. I'd like to have the user download the images using our plugin. When I send the request to the server I can see that it is started correctly but the file save dialog never comes up.
Does anyone know how to do this or can point me to an example?
Thanks!
In general, for security reasons, extensions created on Crossrider or otherwise do not provide functionality to access/save to the local files system. There are various workaround suggestions on various Stack Overflow threads (e.g. Chrome extension: How to save a file on disk) that may work on certain browsers. Whilst Crossrider does not support or guarantee that they will work, you can of course try to make them work in your Crossrider extension.
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I'm trying to find a solution for files uploading directly with TinyMCE. Imagine creating a list of pdf files by uploading them using a custom button.
Is there something already done I can use? collective.clipboardupload seems to be a solution only for images.
collective.quickupload serves us well for such purposes and has a very good UI.
You can add that gadget as a portlet and make it only visible in edit-mode via CSS.
In our case we assigned the portlet to a certain content-type ('Gallery') instead to a location.
MoxieManager may be what you're looking for. It's a premium plugin made by the same developers as TinyMCE itself.
https://www.tinymce.com/docs/enterprise/manage-files-and-images/
Try to use reponsive file manager :
http://www.responsivefilemanager.com/
I am currently creating a form that involves a file uploader. Currently
my form is fine just using multipart and post but later on in future iterations
it will be necessary for the form to be posted with ajax in order to edit the
image before submitting the form.
I have seen a lot of things about multiple files like jquery-file-upload and swf
and php with uploadify and a whole host of non IE 7+ solutions. However those are
not going to work for this specific project and I am really just looking for the bare
bones nothing fancy to have to deal with just sends the image data to an endpoint.
What is the best way to do this in a way that can support all browsers.
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I havent tested this completely yet but this solution seems good to me
https://github.com/francois2metz/html5-formdata
Fine Uploader is a library that provides the ability to support cross-browser uploading. Ajax/xhr post requests are used for all browsers that support the file api. Otherwise, a form-based upload method is used. No flash is used or needed. This is all transparent to the user. Check out fineuploader.com for more details.
You can't send file through AJAX request this is just impossible. If you use HTML5 File API that would work but as you stated in your question you need to support old browsers. So I think you either have to use flash (uploadify uses flash as well) or you don't have any other option.
You can have a look at this question/answer:
jQuery Ajax File Upload
Is there a way to disable auto uploading with Filepicker.io? I'd like to be able to select a couple of files and then explicitly click an 'Upload' button to being the upload process. This would be especially handy for the pickMultiple function as users may want to select files from various folders on their system.
As mentioned by Liyan in the above comment, this is currently not possible with their API.
I have a web app project that I will be starting to work on shortly. One of the features included is going to be a content management system where users can add content and then that content will be combined with a template and then output as a regular .html file. This .html file would then be FTPed to their own web host.
As I've always believed in not reinventing the wheel I figured I'd see if there are any quality customizable CMSes out there that do this already do this. For instance, Blogger.com allows you to post all of your content to your account there; but offers the option to let you use your own hosting. Any time you publish a new article then a new .html page is generated (as well as an updated index page with links to the new article) and then the updated content is FTPed to your own server.
What I would like is something like this that I can modify to more closely suit my needs.
Required Features:
Able to host on my own server
Written in PHP
Users add content through their account, then when posted it is FTPed as .html to their server
Any appropriate pages are also updated to link to the new content (like the index page or whatnot)
Templateable
Customizable
Optional (but very much desired) features:
Written in CodeIgniter or a similar PHP framework
While CodeIgniter isn't strictly required, I would very much prefer it. It speeds up development time and makes things much easier to implement.
So - any suggestions? I've stumbled across a few CMSes that push to remote servers as static pages, but the ones I've found all are hosted on the developers servers which means that I cannot modify it at all.
Adobe Contribute might work for your situation. A developer/designer creates a set of templates with Dreamweaver and publishes the templates. Authorized users can then create pages based on the templates and only make changes within the editable regions. It includes systems for drafts and reviews prior to publishing (via many options, including ftp) and incorporates automatic version control. It can work with static html pages or dynamic pages like php.
Sounds like you need a separate application that can do this for you.
For example, you should be able to write something that queries Drupal's menu router and saves the output (with curl) to a directory and then run's rsync to push your content where you want it to go.
Otherwise your requirements are likely to be outside the scope of a typical CMS. Separating this functionality will give you better options.
You'd need to write a filter for your URLs too. It's a bit of work...
Hope that helps!
I have a section of a web application I’m working on where there are mail merge templates. The documents are word documents. When a user has need to edit the template I’d like them to be able to simply click edit, which would cause word to load with the document loaded. When the user is done, they click save in word and the web page spots the change in the file and pushes this back to the server.
I managed to create a VBScript in a web page that could do all of this, but only when internet explorers security was turned down. The fact that I’m using VBScript to automate is not good as it restricts the browser choice and I’m not happy asking my users to turn their security down.
I don’t want the users to download the file, edit it, save it to their local machine and then upload it back to the server, it’s all very clunky. I also know that there are 3rd party controls that allow editing in a page, but I'd rather avoid them if I can.
Is there an alternative way of approaching this?
You can use Office Open XML to generate the word documents on the Server Side. There is an msdn article, sorry no time to go searching for it, explaining why you should not automate office from web servers using COM/DCOM because of security issues involving shared memory.
you could use google docs API, which is certainly more universal than using proprietary technology that works in one and only browser (IE).
I think you can go for the google docs API. It is more generic solution to go for too.
It is possible, with browser-security caveats, to open Word documents for edit from a browser via an UNC path on an internal network.
The best option currently is to WebDAV enable your website, and use the SharePoint plug-in client-side to open the file in Word over WebDAV.
The SharePoint plug-in for IE gets installed when you install Office. There is also a plug-in for Firefox/ Chrome referred to as NPAPI. Beware NPAPI seems to have an issue with long URL paths.
IT Hit make a terrific framework for WebDAV enabling a .NET-based website, see http://www.webdavsystem.com/. They also sell a client-side library that can open Word documents via Java instead of the plug-ins mentioned above. IIS has it own, more basic, WebDAV capability that you can use too.
I am not familiar with non-.Net / Apache solutions but just search for WebDAV products.
Office will require the use of HTTPS for editing via WebDAV.