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Tue, 10/23/2007 - 16:28

notonebit

Joined: 23/10/2007

Posts: 6

2.5 File Manager Questions

I like the changes in the new version to the file manager but I had a few questions on the way the file browser works. Why does the file manager create its own file, image, media, and flash folders after you setup the config file in .../fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/config.php? I would expect that if I specify a folder to store files in, that that should be the only folder that the browser looks in, and only I can create subfolders for whatever I need. I have set the following options in the config file:

$Config['Enabled'] = true;
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/assets/images/uploads/';
$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = '/var/www/html/assets/images/uploads/';

Now when I fire up the file browser, using the example of inserting an image, it immediately goes to my /assets/images/uploads/image/ folder instead of just the /assets/images/uploads/ folder I specified. I have run the test.html and uploadtest.html in the .../fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/ folder and they run fine, but I don't understand why the folders file, image, media, and flash are being created when I specified the root folder I want the browser to look in.

And here's what confuses me more. If I choose not to use the file browser to upload a file and instead use the Upload tab in an image, flash, link popup window, it uploads the file to the correct folder (/assets/images/uploads/) which is the one I specified. Can anyone clear up my confusion?

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 08:49

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

http://www.fckeditor.net/extras/ckfinder

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Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:36

notonebit

Joined: 23/10/2007

Posts: 6

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

Hi wiktor,

Thanks for the reply. I guess my question isn't really about the lumping of files together, but rather why does the upload tab only upload files to one folder (the folder I specify in the config file) while the file browser allows you to specify any folder to upload a file to except the folder I specified in the config file? The upload tab seems to be a shortcut around using the file manger but here's the issue. In my config file, if I specify an upload folder of say /images/uploads/ then the upload tab will drop files there, but the file manager never sees them because it only looks in /images/uploads/image, /images/uploads/file, /images/uploads/flash, or /images/uploads/media. It's the fact that the file browser created those four folders on its own and doesn't look in the folder I specified in the config file that confuses me.

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 16:46

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

The 2.5 beta allows you to specify the folder for the upload, and the folder for the browser. You can configure both of them to be the same. (and use or not the file type subfolders)

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 19:50

notonebit

Joined: 23/10/2007

Posts: 6

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

alfonsoml wrote:The 2.5 beta allows you to specify the folder for the upload, and the folder for the browser. You can configure both of them to be the same. (and use or not the file type subfolders)

I'm currently using the 2.5 beta, can you tell me how to set that configuration as what I see are the $Config['Enabled'], $Config['UserFilesPath'], $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] variables in the new connector config file?

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 22:30

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

Look below in that file:

NOTE: by default, QuickUploadPath and QuickUploadAbsolutePath point to
"userfiles" directory to maintain backwards compatibility with older versions of FCKeditor.
This is fine, but you in some cases you will be not able to browse uploaded files using file browser.
Example: if you click on "image button", select "Upload" tab and send image
to the server, image will appear in FCKeditor correctly, but because it is placed
directly in /userfiles/ directory, you'll be not able to see it in built-in file browser.
The more expected behaviour would be to send images directly to "image" subfolder.
To achieve that, simply change
$Config['QuickUploadPath']['Image'] = $Config['UserFilesPath'] ;
$Config['QuickUploadAbsolutePath']['Image'] = $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] ;
into:
$Config['QuickUploadPath']['Image'] = $Config['FileTypesPath']['Image'] ;
$Config['QuickUploadAbsolutePath']['Image'] = $Config['FileTypesAbsolutePath']['Image'] ;

There are lots of other comments.

Wed, 10/24/2007 - 22:49

notonebit

Joined: 23/10/2007

Posts: 6

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

I need a break. How did I miss that? Thanks.

Mon, 10/29/2007 - 06:37

echan79

Joined: 29/10/2007

Posts: 2

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:05

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] should be set to the absoulte path not to an URL.
Set it to /home/public_html/mydomain.com/abc/...or whatever your system path to that directory is.

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Mon, 10/29/2007 - 09:59

#10

echan79

Joined: 29/10/2007

Posts: 2

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

i got it not ..
thank you so much

Wed, 11/07/2007 - 11:21

#11

vincentvb

Joined: 07/11/2007

Posts: 1

Re: 2.5 File Manager Questions

Sorry for my english.

If I use the "upload" tabs, it didn't work ("/home/powerdev/www/userfiles/" : can't create directory)

But if I use first server browse, then "Upload a new file in this folder", it work perfect.

<?php
....

global $Config ;
$Config['Enabled'] = true ;

$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/userfiles/' ;

$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = '/home/powerdev/www/userfiles/' ;


$Config['AllowedExtensions']['Image']   = array('bmp','gif','jpeg','jpg','png','psd','tif','tiff') ;
$Config['DeniedExtensions']['Image']   = array() ;
$Config['FileTypesPath']['Image']      = $Config['UserFilesPath'] . 'image/' ;
$Config['FileTypesAbsolutePath']['Image']= ($Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] == '') ? '' : $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'].'image/' ;
$Config['QuickUploadPath']['Image']      = $Config['UserFilesPath'] ;
$Config['QuickUploadAbsolutePath']['Image']= $Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] ;
.....
?>