Who can get the ColdFusion connector working?

My first question is what version of CF are you using? If it's MX 6.1 or MX 7, then I believe you can get it to work, though I can't help you further on that. I am currently using CF 5 with my local development running on top of Apache and the live sites running on top of IIS. So I had the problem that I couldn't use the CF connector (it does not work with CF 5 period). I almost gave up on the editor altogether at that point until I realized that IIS comes WITH asp support built in, so why not just use the ASP connector on IIS. Since I was running apache locally I couldn't use ASP but I could use PHP (which I also had installed) so on my local dev I use the php connector and live uses ASP. Both sites running CF 5 and my sites are primarily CF5. No one even noticed that I'd quietly slipped in another language for that piece of the functionality and both the PHP and ASP connectors work (though admitedly I had to do some customizations b/c of my setup)...

I am using cf 5 and 2.0FC, and the connector is working for me. There's a few things that one needs to do:
1. update fckconfig.js-- need to add cfm connector reference to FCKConfig.LinkBrowserURL and FCKConfig.ImageBrowserURL; just copy the asp line and change all references of "asp" to "cfm".
2. create the application variables mentioned in connector.cfm, which create paths to the default file directories.

Also, grant has a version in his connector/filemanager. I like it because it adds delete, rename, etc.

Same issue tho, think it's set for 6.1 or so, although, it should be really easy to get it to work with 5.

You could even use JS to start the editor, and a simple CF file (any version) for the connector.

The connector XML stuff is well documented, and I've had good luck (besides having to add debug info, but grant's connector has a nice (last time i checked) debug feature.) setting 'em up, converting 'em, tweaking 'em, etc.

May [good] luck follow you wherever ya go!
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dEN was here

Yeah, had things working fine on RC2.0.1, but just upgraded to RC2.0.3 and can't seem to get things working with the connector.

Ugh.

FYI, I was having a bitch of a time getting the connector to work with the RCrc3... so I downloaded the Final Preview and was up and running in seconds.

Your idea with the session scope sound good, but it's not a good idea to use the "official" cfml connector in a different way compared to the other connectors in php,asp, perl, ...

The developer documentation demands an absolute "server" wide path, e.g. in the asp model it's in the server scope. I've already switched it to the application scope with a "fallback" to the server scope in coldfusion, because the asp server scope is a bit different from the cfml server scope.

So feel free to modify the connector to your own version and switch from Application to Session Scope. The only thing to do for it is to replace all appearances of "Application." in the connector.cfm to "Session.".

For most of the advanced coldfusion users, it's not too tricky to fully replace the file connector.
Not everybody liked the idea of uploading just files without a database insert of the data structure and to allow x levels of subdirectories without security.

For your own version of the connector, you just have to

1. replace the "browser.html" with your own version of an image picker / file upload variant.

2. Call "window.top.opener.SetUrl( fileUrl ) ;" with "fileurl" as the full url to the selected image or file to get the selected image/file back to FCKEditor 2.0.

Hi,

I'm the developer of the coldfusion version. The biggest challenge is to change the connector for the different versions (asp/php/cfm) in fckconfig.js. I'm in contact with Fred to have an easier way to automatically configure the correct connector from fckeditor.cfm.

Here are the things to get it working:

1. The file connector for image uploading and managing needs UTF-8 XML Files,
which can only be handled by ColdFusion MX 6 and above. This is a demand by the javascript in the core editor. If you have your own version of the fileconnector, the fckeditor.cfm should work also in older versions.

2. Please edit fckconfig.js and make a comment sign (// ) before the asp connector in line 104 (??) and uncomment the cfm connector line below to use the cfm connector instead of the asp connector!

3. Set the Application variable "userFilesPath" to the root folder for the uploaded media files relative to your website

Under this directory, all media files will be placed automatically.
e.g. <cfset Application.userFilesPath = "/UserFiles/">

The folder (sub-)structure is demanded by Fred and is used by all standard versions.

4. Create the necessary folder you've set in 3. under your webroot (in this example "{webroot}\UserFiles" )

Then everything should work. You can get an updated version of the coldfusion files from RC3 as a zip archive (no official version!) here:

http://www.hotelwebservice.de/fckeditor.zip

Testing FCKEditor with ColdFusion files RC3:
- ImageProperties > Browse Server
The FCK Resource Browser windows opens with an error message :
"XML request error: Internal Server Error (500)"
Please advice. ThankYou

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