Implementing 2 Image-Directories and limiting Image-Amounts

I would like to "pimp" CKfinder (ColdFusion) for two things

1) I have the image base-dir set to /some/path/#cookie.mailingid#/
meaning with each new E-Mail-Mailing that is being generated through my tool there will be a separate image directory, this works a charm.
Now I would like for each user to have one additional image directory that is based on his user-data, so whenever a user is constructing a new mailing he will have
a) the mailing-specific imagedir (as works now) and
b) an imagedir which is based on his username and hence always the same for the same user
Is that possible?

2) I would like to restrict the amount of images in each /#cookie.mailingid#/-Folder to x (e.g. 5).
This would mean I'd have to somehow work a control mechanism into some template (possibly FileUpload.cfc?) that first checks the amount of images present and denies upload if x has been reached already.

Any hints? Or are there variables already existent for such behaviour?
Jan

Thu, 04/23/2009 - 17:17

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Implementing 2 Image-Directories and limiting Image-Amounts

1) Basically do similar thing with "userid" like you did with /some/path/#cookie.mailingid#/ .
baseUrl and baseDir are just helper variables used later in resource type definitions, so the only difference here is that you can create for example baseUrl2 and baseDir2

config.baseUrl2 = "/some/path/#userid#/";
config.baseDir2 = APPLICATION.CreateCFC("Utils.FileSystem").resolveUrl(config.baseUrl2);

and use them in new resource type:

config.resourceType[4] = structNew();
config.resourceType[4].name = 'User Images';
config.resourceType[4].url = config.baseUrl2 & 'images';
config.resourceType[4].directory = config.baseDir2 & 'images';
config.resourceType[4].maxSize = 0;
config.resourceType[4].allowedExtensions = 'bmp,gif,jpeg,jpg,png';
config.resourceType[4].deniedExtensions = '';

btw. I would try to avoid using values from cookies to build server path.

2) In constants.cfm add new constant, for example
constants.CKFINDER_CONNECTOR_ERROR_TOO_MANY_FILES=600;
and in core/lang add entry for code 600 in language files.
In FileUpload.cfc throw this error if you detect that user has reached limit of uploded files:

<cfset THIS.throwError(REQUEST.constants.CKFINDER_CONNECTOR_ERROR_TOO_MANY_FILES)>
<cfreturn false>

Wiktor Walc
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Fri, 04/24/2009 - 09:48

jansr

Joined: 22/04/2009

Posts: 5

Re: Implementing 2 Image-Directories and limiting Image-Amounts

Hi, thanks for the heads up, so far so good, now I'm not quite clear how I get the second (User Images) directory to appear als well. Do I need to specify a second upload-Button in the fckeditor-toolbar?

Edit: I checked if I simply could duplicate the 'Image' Buttons Behaviour, but since this seems quite "embedded" in the editor, I wouldn't Knwo how to start duplicating it. Maybe I would need to create a Plugin for a second Image Browser but then also I wouldn't know where to begin linking correctly.

If I try it the primitve way (just having the Flash Toolbar-Icon point to my second image directory) this is "ok", but of course I also get the Flash-Details Dialogue... I'm Stumped :-)

Jan

Fri, 04/24/2009 - 17:35

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Implementing 2 Image-Directories and limiting Image-Amounts

Do you really want to add another button to the FCKeditor toolbar just to open another CKFinder installation pointing to different location?
I thought that you want to use both locations inside of one CKFinder window (each resource type on the left side can point to a completely separate directory).
Let me know what exactly do you want to achieve and I'll try to help you.

Wiktor Walc
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Mon, 04/27/2009 - 07:59

jansr

Joined: 22/04/2009

Posts: 5

Re: Implementing 2 Image-Directories and limiting Image-Amounts

Wiktor,

I'm perfectly content to have both the mailingID-Directory and the UserID-Directory in one instance of the CKfinder-Popup.
Jan