How can I provide a shared folder?

In my use of CKFinder, each user has access to image files they have uploaded into their own file area, so they have read/write access to that area, and that's all working fine.

In addition to this, I'd like to provide access to a shared file area that's read-only and common to all users. Ideally this would appear as a second folder in the left-hand column.

How can I do that?

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 08:40

synchro

Joined: 10/12/2007

Posts: 64

[SOLVED]

Answering my own question by reading the docs in config.php!

First I added a Library resource type:

$config['ResourceType'][] = Array(
	'name' => 'Library',
	'url' => '/url/path/to/images',
	'directory' => '/path/to/images',
	'maxSize' => "2M",
	'allowedExtensions' => 'gif,jpeg,jpg,png',
	'deniedExtensions' => 'bmp,avi,iso,mp3'
);

Then I added an AccessControl entry for it with read-only settings:

$config['AccessControl'][] = Array(
	'role' => '*',
	'resourceType' => 'Library',
	'folder' => '/',

	'folderView' => true,
	'folderCreate' => false,
	'folderRename' => false,
	'folderDelete' => false,

	'fileView' => true,
	'fileUpload' => false,
	'fileRename' => false,
	'fileDelete' => false
);

and finally added it to the front of my DefaultResources setting:

$config['DefaultResourceTypes'] = 'Library,Images';

And it's all happy.

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 09:21

synchro

Joined: 10/12/2007

Posts: 64

Ah, not quite...

The above works fine for a standalone instance of ckfinder, but when it's loaded from ckeditor, the resources are set by ckeditor config, which in my case includes this line:

CKEDITOR.config.filebrowserImageBrowseUrl = "/ckfinder/ckfinder.html?type=Images";

This only includes access to a single resource type. It works if I set it to 'Library', but I can't see how to make it show both at once. I tried setting it to 'Library,Images'. I tried making up a property name, but this doesn't work either:

CKEDITOR.config.filebrowserLibraryBrowseUrl = "/ckfinder/ckfinder.html?type=Library";

How do I tell it to show both? What's the equivalent of '$config['DefaultResourceTypes'] = 'Library,Images';' from the PHP side?

Sat, 11/16/2013 - 15:35

(Reply to #3) #4

synchro

Joined: 10/12/2007

Posts: 64

I found a duplicate of this

I found a duplicate of this question here. Unfortunately that was not answered clearly - although multiple resource types work fine when CKFinder is used standalone, it doesn't work from within CKEditor. I don't see why it should render differently when it's the same config. Is this supposed to be possible?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 07:10

synchro

Joined: 10/12/2007

Posts: 64

Workaround found!

I figured that the reson CKEditor only specifies a single resource type is to provide selection for specific media types, hence the different settings for Images and Flash. Since I only have two resource types defined, and both are images, setting this as the image browser URL allowed it to show both types in the CKEditor image selector:

CKEDITOR.config.filebrowserImageBrowseUrl = "/ckfinder/ckfinder.html";

Clearly this won't work if you have non-image resource types defined, but it's a workable solution for me.