Cool. On 5/18/07, Whiterod, David (PIRSA) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Blair, > > I've tested on: > > FF 2 > IE 6+7 > > and it all looks good. > > If the browser supports 302 temporary redirects (which is what cflocation > is now doing under the hood) then it should all be sweet. > > cheers > > David > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Blair McKenzie > *Sent:* Friday, 18 May 2007 11:52 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [farcry-dev] Re: TIP: Displaying images in dmHTML pages > > Will this work for all browsers? I've heard that some older ones don't > handle redirects very well. > > Blair > > On 5/18/07, David Whiterod < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > One of the things that I haven't liked when users create dmHTML > > objects is the hard-coding of image URLs within the body. > > > > Others may have developed workarounds, but I was looking at Ben > > Nadel's blog the other day and he was taking about a simple method to > > log file downloads in CF [1]. I thought the method he described would > > be a good way to 'solve' the hard-coding issue. To this end, I've have > > created a proxy.cfm template (this can go in your webroot folder) and > > an example dmImage inserthtml snippet [2]. (These files have been > > created for, and testing, on FarCry 4 but they wouldn't need too much > > change to work with a FarCry 3 setup). > > > > Firstly the inserthtml. It's pretty basic as it just replaces the > > img's src with a call to proxy.cfm?objectid=<the image's UUID> instead > > of the image's URL path. Yyou can also supply the (optional) imagesize > > param. ie proxy.cfm?objectid=<the image's UUID>&imagesize=<thumb, > > optimised or original>) > > ie: > > > > <!--- @@displayname: Link (via proxy) ---> > > <cfoutput><img alt='#stObj.alt#' title='#stObj.alt#' > > src="#application.url.webroot#/proxy.cfm?objectid=#stObj.objectid#" / > > ></cfoutput> > > > > Secondly, the proxy.cfm templateiso only marginally more complex. It > > just takes the objected and (optional) imagesize (via the URL), gets > > the FarCry object and cflocations to the current image URL. This > > allows users to update the physical image (and location and filename) > > associated with a FarCry dmImage object and the links within the > > dmHTML bodys do not need to be changed. > > > > The good thing about using the cflocation method is that the image > > will also shows up in the rich text editor when users are editing the > > dmHTML objects! > > > > (Although this does need to do a database lookup it you turn on FarCry > > 4's objectbroker for the image type this should cut down the amount of > > db traffic.) > > > > The code for proxy.cfm looks like: > > > > <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true" /> > > > > <cfparam name="URL.objectid" type="string" default="" /> > > <cfparam name="URL.ImageSize" type="string" default="optimised" /> > > > > <cfif len(trim(URL.objectid))> > > <cfset oImage = createObject("component", > > "#application.types.dmImage.typePath#")> > > <cfset imagePath = oImage.getURLImagePath(URL.objectid, > > URL.ImageSize) /> > > > > <cfif len(trim(imagePath))> > > <cflocation url="#imagePath#" addtoken="false" /> > > <cfelse> > > <cfoutput>image not found</cfoutput> > > <!--- trace or report this error ---> > > </cfif> > > > > <cfelse> > > <cfoutput>Must supply object id</cfoutput> > > <!--- trace or report this error ---> > > </cfif> > > > > In summary, this looks like a good solution to the problem. > > > > Questions/comments/suggestions? > > > > (I've tested this on Windows/IIS but I don't see issues with other > > setups) > > > > Cheers > > > > David > > > > [1] http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:706.view > > [2] > > http://docs.farcrycms.org:8080/confluence/display/FCDEV30/Insert+HTML+Templates > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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