File

Very weird– are you sure it’s the same file upload location?

Very weird– are you sure it’s the same file upload location?

Yes, I’m only using one file upload location.

What if you just remove the resize_images record from the database? I’m finding that default values don’t have a record created.

Everything seems to work, but I have this notice on my custom fields page in the CP:

Undefined variable: field_type in /home/.../cp/cp.publish_ad.php on line 7311

Any ideas?

Everything seems to work, but I have this notice on my custom fields page in the CP:

Undefined variable: field_type in /home/.../cp/cp.publish_ad.php on line 7311

Any ideas?

I changed the field order and it is resolved.

All the code within the {self_mailer_preview} {/self_mailer_preview} tags is going to repeat for each image uploaded to the field. So if you have three images, that code is going to repeat three times. On the first loop, count will = “1” so the code won’t show. On the second two count will not = “1” so the code will show. By the way, you may want to use {total_results}, and not {count} for this (although there are some glitches with {total_results} and {count} and adding/removing files that I’ve seen): What about this code– not the neatest in the world, but probably workable:

<div class="preview">
    {self_mailer_preview}
        {if ({count} == 1) && ({total_results} > 1)}
            Click on image to see more views
            <ul class="gallery">
        {if:elseif {count} == 1}
            <ul class="gallery">
        {/if}
        <li>
            {file_url}
        </li>
        {/self_mailer_preview}
    </ul>
</div>

That code was close and definitely ended the multiple instances, but somehow disabled clicking through to the next image. This was my fix:

<div class="preview">
      <ul class="gallery">
      {self_mailer_preview}<li>{if {total_results} > 1}Click image to see more views{/if}{file_url}</li>{/self_mailer_preview}
     </ul>
</div>

Thanks for getting me on the right track!

Hi all… I love this extension, but have a small problem. I want to use the same file on multiple weblog entries. So basically what I need is to be able to upload the file using this fantastic extension, OR select a file from a list (drop-down?). Has anyone come across this issue, or better yet found a solution? Thanks in advance.

Hi again…I didn’t have any response to my question, so I thought I would try it again! Let me know if I haven’t explained myself properly, or if it simply isn’t possible with this extension.

Thanks again.

What you’re looking to do isn’t really supported by the plugin out of the box. Have you considered doing it with relationships? Upload it to the first one you want to use it on, and add an optional “File from related entry” field in the weblog so you can pull the image again from any other entry.

Thanks slapshotw. I kind of figured that it wasn’t an out of the box solution. Oh well. Best to be sure.

I think I might have to go with the same file being uploaded multiple times, but have it automatically re-named. Unfortunately I don’t think that your solution will work, as there are tons of entries, and finding the right one will probably be tricky (for the client).

If I do work out a solution, I will post it for all.

Thanks for the response thought!

😊

What about making a new Weblog for it, with a single custom field (the file) and naming the entries in that weblog to be the name of the file you want (or some other descriptive text)? Then, make the relationship only with that weblog.

Hmmm…interesting approach. This is what I love about EE…there are a million different ways of doing stuff. You just need to think “outside the box”.

I am in fact already using this approach with the “location” for each entry (they are services of a business, but spread across something like 20 locations)….therefore the client might be comfortable enough to go with this as well. It also means that I can use it in a specific ‘resources/publications’ list.

Cool. Thanks for your help slapshotw.

Anybody aware if the 3.X branch of Mark’s File extension supports thumbnail generation of png’s with an Alpha transparency?

If so, is there a trick to it? I’m unable to, from the uploaded source (a .png with w/transparency), generate a thumb that also contains the transparency. The resulting thumb converts the transparency to black.

Anyone come across this issue and come up with a resolution?

Thanks

The extension uses the function imagecreatefrompng to do the resizing. There’s more information about it here: http://us.php.net/imagecreatefrompng. If you look through the comments, people talk about getting it working with transparency. Perhaps you can modify the extension to use the changes they mention?

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