Changing the User Files Path in ColdFusion

you might want to consider using a different file manager... maybe...

http://www.webworksllc.com/cffm

CFFM integrates nicely with fckEditor, and you can use your existing coldfusion skills to manage the userFiles directory stuff however you want.

Rick

I managed to pull it off - but not as a cfmodule attribute, I fear. I ended up just setting a session variable, and hacking some of the editor code to look for that session var instead of in the application/server scopes.

Email me if you want and I'll dig out the mods I made and fire'em off your way.

I've got a better way to do the single-upload/download folder bit (or perhaps "another way" is how I should put it.

Lets say your web site has the following structure:

/ (root)
/includes/
/tags/
/uploads/
/uploads/page001files/
/uploads/page023files/
/uploads/page097files/

Where the uploaded files go into the sub-subfolders above, based on one subfolder per page (or user or whatever).

/Uploads/ is never going to change in such a layout, right? As such, go ahead and set application.userFilesPath as recommended in the FCK docs. If it does change, then add in session.userFilesPath as described in previous posts.

Next, put this code in just before you call the editor:

<cflock scope="SESSION" type="EXCLUSIVE" timeout="10">
<cfset session.theFolder="page097files">
</cflock>

Now, in connector.cfm replace

<cfparam name="URL.Type" type="string">

with

<!--- <cfparam name="URL.Type" type="string"> --->
<cflock scope="Session" type="readonly" timeout="3">
<cfset url.Type=session.ThisPage>
</cflock>

There is no need to fool with form posts to remove doubled slashes. Also, assuming your root/parent upload folder will never change, you can now set that as an application variable from within an isdefined, probably in /Application.cfm.

You can also defeat the multiple subfolders without too much trouble and give yourself one upload folder for all file types.

In connector.cfm, change this:

<cfparam name="URL.Type" type="string">

to this:
<!--- <cfparam name="URL.Type" type="string"> --->
<cfset url.Type="">

This will force the folder type to an empty string and solve MOST of the problem. However placing any files with one of the browser tools will result in code like this

/userfiles//myimage.gif
/userfiles//mydoc.pdf

Note the doubled slash. It will work but to tidy it up I use this code where the form posts, which I would rather not but can't see an easier way around at the moment:

<cflock scope="server" type="READONLY" timeout="10">
<cfset UserFilesFind=server.userfilespath&"/">
<cfset UserFilesReplace=server.userfilespath>
</cflock>
<cfset form.wysiwyg=Replace(form.wysiwyg,UserFilesFind,UserFilesReplace,"ALL")>

I am using the server scope above because it is a part of the default file set. I have added a session scope to connector.cfm and use it on my own stuff as already described.

The code above is probably best handled by breaking it out into a cfinclude, coupled to a dynamic variable name for the sake of easy re-use. Haven't gotten further with the coding. Any improvements welcome as this is just roughed out with an axe.

Hmm, I need to do this too (this is being implemented on a pre-existing system and so users already have images uploaded into a specific folder and now they can't "see" them) -- however when I did the above I got an XML 500 error.

Solved.. I just took out any reference to url.type when it involved directory listing, etc. and then created new variable for userFilesPath that didn't have the trailing / -- did this in connector.cfm