Re: Media View Path - Strange behaviour

[Stephen S]

This happened a couple more times since I written the original email, it
turns out when it cannot find the file, it prints an error with the wrong
path. When the file is found, it uses the intended path.


On 1 March 2014 19:57, Stephen S hellospeak...@gmail.com wrote:

 Doing pr(ROOT) will print D:\Work\DittoCake


 On 1 March 2014 05:38, Andrew Lechowicz drew.lechow...@gmail.com wrote:

 What is the value of your `ROOT` constant on the windows machine?


 On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:01:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen S wrote:

 Hey

 I've pulled some working code from a repository this morning, which
 works at the office using OSX, to my windows machine.

 The media view is having strange and unexpected behaviour, here is the
 code (expected path and actual path).

 http://pastie.org/private/qw6twdc7pk4mm9kqega

 If you read the book (http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/
 en/views/media-view.html) it states the path by default should be
 absolute unless it's relative to the webroot folder. This only happens on
 my windows installation.

 Perhaps this is a bug I should report, rather than something I have done
 wrong?

 Cheers!

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Re: Media View Path - Strange behaviour

[Stephen S]

Doing pr(ROOT) will print D:\Work\DittoCake


On 1 March 2014 05:38, Andrew Lechowicz drew.lechow...@gmail.com wrote:

 What is the value of your `ROOT` constant on the windows machine?


 On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:01:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen S wrote:

 Hey

 I've pulled some working code from a repository this morning, which works
 at the office using OSX, to my windows machine.

 The media view is having strange and unexpected behaviour, here is the
 code (expected path and actual path).

 http://pastie.org/private/qw6twdc7pk4mm9kqega

 If you read the book (http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/
 en/views/media-view.html) it states the path by default should be
 absolute unless it's relative to the webroot folder. This only happens on
 my windows installation.

 Perhaps this is a bug I should report, rather than something I have done
 wrong?

 Cheers!

 --
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Media View Path - Strange behaviour

[Stephen S]

Hey

I've pulled some working code from a repository this morning, which works
at the office using OSX, to my windows machine.

The media view is having strange and unexpected behaviour, here is the code
(expected path and actual path).

http://pastie.org/private/qw6twdc7pk4mm9kqega

If you read the book (http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/media-view.html)
it states the path by default should be absolute unless it's relative to
the webroot folder. This only happens on my windows installation.

Perhaps this is a bug I should report, rather than something I have done
wrong?

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Re: Media View Path - Strange behaviour

[Andrew Lechowicz]

What is the value of your `ROOT` constant on the windows machine?

On Friday, February 28, 2014 7:01:22 AM UTC-5, Stephen S wrote:

 Hey

 I've pulled some working code from a repository this morning, which works 
 at the office using OSX, to my windows machine.

 The media view is having strange and unexpected behaviour, here is the 
 code (expected path and actual path).

 http://pastie.org/private/qw6twdc7pk4mm9kqega

 If you read the book (http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/media-view.html) 
 it states the path by default should be absolute unless it's relative to 
 the webroot folder. This only happens on my windows installation.

 Perhaps this is a bug I should report, rather than something I have done 
 wrong?

 Cheers!

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Re: CakePHP Media View Download of PDF Files Size Limit?

[Blues Clues]

Hi
Would you mind sharing the code snippet to download pdf files using 
mediaview in cakephp controller. I am able to download the file and but I 
try to open the pdf after the download is complete, I get invalid/corrupt 
file error from Adobe Reader.

Other file types work just fine. I wonder if the header needs to be setup 
in a certain way. 

I am using Cakephp 1.3

-BC



On Monday, March 28, 2011 8:40:14 PM UTC-4, Lawrence wrote:

 I've setup downloading of PDF files using the media view. It's working 
 great and I can basically force authentication prior to users 
 downloading the files. 

 The one problem I've run into is that once a PDF file goes over a 
 certain size, the file won't download. I'm given the prompt to 
 download the file, the option to specify where I'd like to save the 
 file, but after that the file download doesn't start. I've gone 
 through the logs (cake and apache) and cannot see anything obvious. 

 Again smaller PDF files are being downloaded properly. 

 Would love to hear if anyone else has run into this issue before or 
 whether anyone has any tips on where I can investigate further. 

 Thanks! 



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Re: CakePHP media view not functioning.

[Daniel]

Are you using the correct URL?  In the example on the link you gave,
from your localhost, it would be as follows:
localhost/appname/example/download

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CakePHP media view not functioning.

[nizam bloody]

Hi. I'm Nizam. I'm newbie to this CakePHP.

I'm now on a project using CakePHP 1.3 ..

My problem now is using the media view. It is to enable admin to
download the necessary files uploaded by the user.

I try to implement media view like stated in here
http://book.cakephp.org/1.3/view/1094/Media-Views with a little tweaks
but not functioning. I also try the default tutorial and have my
example.docx on the location. Yet,still not solve my problem.

For both problems,the error stated is Error: The requested address
'the web adress' was not found on this server.

What do I do wrong actually??


Please. I've been googling and trying many solution and not happening.
I'm behind schedule now.

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Media view 1.3

[JTiki]

I've recently been trying to get a media view up and running, but for
some reason I keep getting this Error Error: The requested address '/
events/download' was not found on this server.
My controller code is below

function download () {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter.pdf',
  'name' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'pdf',  // must be lower case
  'path' = APP . 'webroot' . DS . 'files' . DS   // don't
forget terminal 'DS'
   );
   $this-set($params);
}

Any ideas?

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Re: Media view 1.3

[Tilen Majerle]

set debug to 2 and you will see what's going wrong :)
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2011/12/30 JTiki jeremyt...@gmail.com

 I've recently been trying to get a media view up and running, but for
 some reason I keep getting this Error Error: The requested address '/
 events/download' was not found on this server.
 My controller code is below

 function download () {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter.pdf',
  'name' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'pdf',  // must be lower case
  'path' = APP . 'webroot' . DS . 'files' . DS   // don't
 forget terminal 'DS'
   );
   $this-set($params);
}

 Any ideas?

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Re: Media view 1.3

[JTiki]

I actually already had debug to 2, but on the bright side I figured
out what was wrong, the file on the server had a different name, thats
why I couldnt be found...

On Dec 30, 2:34 pm, Tilen Majerle tilen.maje...@gmail.com wrote:
 set debug to 2 and you will see what's going wrong :)
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 2011/12/30 JTiki jeremyt...@gmail.com







  I've recently been trying to get a media view up and running, but for
  some reason I keep getting this Error Error: The requested address '/
  events/download' was not found on this server.
  My controller code is below

  function download () {
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter.pdf',
               'name' = 'SalemFall2011Newsletter',
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'pdf',  // must be lower case
               'path' = APP . 'webroot' . DS . 'files' . DS   // don't
  forget terminal 'DS'
        );
        $this-set($params);
     }

  Any ideas?

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Media View: specifying the filename when download = false

[shantamg]

Hi,

I have noticed that with media view, the file name specified is only
used when download is set to true. I'd like to have the file play in
the browser by default but if they decide to download the link it
should have the name I specified. Anyone know of a fix?

Thanks,
Jason

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Re: Media View: specifying the filename when download = false

[euromark]

yes - last week after upgrading to 2.0 I had the same problem.
I wanted to render files as pdf automatically (/controller/action/
[ID].pdf)
and it always returned the ID
no matter what I did.
after some research I found out that this is a well known bug in
almost all browsers
they simply ignore the inline filename header
thats probably why cakephp doesnt even bother setting it^^

see my post from last week about this topic:
http://www.dereuromark.de/2011/11/21/serving-views-as-files-in-cake2/
Its not the media view but I think it should work in your case, as
well, if you make sure that
all files are served as /controller/action/ID/this-is-the-actual-
filename.pdf

yours
mark


On 26 Nov., 22:37, shantamg jason.galu...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have noticed that with media view, the file name specified is only
 used when download is set to true. I'd like to have the file play in
 the browser by default but if they decide to download the link it
 should have the name I specified. Anyone know of a fix?

 Thanks,
 Jason

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CakePHP Media View Download of PDF Files Size Limit?

[Lawrence]

I've setup downloading of PDF files using the media view. It's working
great and I can basically force authentication prior to users
downloading the files.

The one problem I've run into is that once a PDF file goes over a
certain size, the file won't download. I'm given the prompt to
download the file, the option to specify where I'd like to save the
file, but after that the file download doesn't start. I've gone
through the logs (cake and apache) and cannot see anything obvious.

Again smaller PDF files are being downloaded properly.

Would love to hear if anyone else has run into this issue before or
whether anyone has any tips on where I can investigate further.

Thanks!

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media view

[a17s]

Hello,
I am trying to use the MediaView class to set a download of pdf file.
So far my attempts are not working and I can't seem to find any fault
in my code copied from the book.cakephp.org website. Any help or
thoughts will be appreciated.

Find sample code below:


$this-view = 'Media'; //set to media download
$params = array(
'id' = 'catalogue.pdf',
'name' = 'new_catalogue',
'download'=true,
'extension' = 'pdf',
'path' = $this-webroot . 'files' . DS   );
$this-set($params);

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Re: media view

[Sam Sherlock]

check that you have no errors hidden away (you need debug to be off for
media views to work) - this can be a cause of media views not working

also check that
$this-webroot . 'files' . DS   is what you expect and that the pdf is there

 - S



On 22 February 2011 13:55, a17s godlyfr...@googlemail.com wrote:

 $this-webroot . 'files' . DS

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Re: media view

[cricket]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:55 AM, a17s godlyfr...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I am trying to use the MediaView class to set a download of pdf file.
 So far my attempts are not working and I can't seem to find any fault
 in my code copied from the book.cakephp.org website. Any help or
 thoughts will be appreciated.

Define not working please.

 Find sample code below:


 $this-view = 'Media'; //set to media download
                $params = array(
                        'id' = 'catalogue.pdf',
                        'name' = 'new_catalogue',
                        'download'=true,
                        'extension' = 'pdf',
                        'path' = $this-webroot . 'files' . DS   );
                $this-set($params);

What is $this-webroot? Is there a reason you're not using WEB_ROOT?
If you're trying to keep this configurable (perhaps it could be APP--a
more reasonable use for MediaView, anyway) it might be better to use a
more neutral variable name, like $this-_base.

In any case, as Sam mentioned, be sure to debug or log the path. Are
you seeing a 404? Are you sure it's not a 404 due to some error and
debug being set to 0? If unsure, alter the MediaView render() method
to do something besides throwing a 404 for a missing file.

Or just triple-check the path and that the file you want it really
there and accessible.

I can't remember why but my code also always includes the MIME type:

'mimeType' = array($result['ItemFile']['type'])

Note that it's an array.

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Still stuck with Media View some one please help!!!

[newguy]

I have a display page with follwoing 4 links:

pSelect the game to download/p
ul
li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
li
li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
li
li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('action'='download1')); ?/
li
liGame 4/li
/ul

On clicking each link a different file should be downloaded.

I am using Media View to dlownload file placed on my disk but since
the file name is hardcoded I am able to download only one file through
the download fucntion, I want to know that is it possible that I just
pass the name of the file to be downloaded(depending on the link
clicked) to the download function of media view and the respective
file is downloaded(extension of all files is zip).

Heres my controller code:

function download ()
 {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'example.zip,
  'name' = 'example',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'zip',
  'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
   $this-set($params);
}

Guys am new here so please help me witha little more explanation than
usual.

Thanks

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Re: Still stuck with Media View some one please help!!!

[AD7six]

On Feb 5, 11:16 am, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have a display page with follwoing 4 links:

 pSelect the game to download/p
 ul
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('action'='download1')); ?/
 li
 liGame 4/li
 /ul

 On clicking each link a different file should be downloaded.

 I am using Media View to dlownload file placed on my disk but since
 the file name is hardcoded I am able to download only one file through
 the download fucntion, I want to know that is it possible that I just
 pass the name of the file to be downloaded(depending on the link
 clicked) to the download function of media view and the respective
 file is downloaded(extension of all files is zip).

 Heres my controller code:

 function download ()
          {
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = 'example.zip,
               'name' = 'example',
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'zip',
               'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
        $this-set($params);
     }

 Guys am new here so please help me witha little more explanation than
 usual.

3 tips

1 don't create duplicate threads - that's really irritating.
2 how is your question any different than you want to view post 1, 2,
3 of the blog tutorial?
3 the media view file is written in php - you can debug it.

AD

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Re: Still stuck with Media View some one please help!!!

[Jeremy Burns | Class Outfit]

You need to let your download function know which file to download. You can do 
this by passing the name of the file into the function:

li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download', 'filename1')); 
?/li
li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download', 'filename2')); 
?/li


function download ($filename = '')
{
   $this-view = 'Media';
   $params = array(
 'id' = $filename,
 'name' = 'example',
 'download' = true,
 'extension' = 'zip',
 'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
  $this-set($params);
   }

If you don't want to reveal the name of the file, you could store them in a 
table and pass in the id of the record instead of the filename, then in your 
download function do a find to get the name first.

Jeremy Burns
Class Outfit

jeremybu...@classoutfit.com
http://www.classoutfit.com

On 5 Feb 2011, at 10:16, newguy wrote:

 I have a display page with follwoing 4 links:
 
 pSelect the game to download/p
 ul
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('action'='download1')); ?/
 li
 liGame 4/li
 /ul
 
 On clicking each link a different file should be downloaded.
 
 I am using Media View to dlownload file placed on my disk but since
 the file name is hardcoded I am able to download only one file through
 the download fucntion, I want to know that is it possible that I just
 pass the name of the file to be downloaded(depending on the link
 clicked) to the download function of media view and the respective
 file is downloaded(extension of all files is zip).
 
 Heres my controller code:
 
 function download ()
 {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'example.zip,
  'name' = 'example',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'zip',
  'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);
   $this-set($params);
}
 
 Guys am new here so please help me witha little more explanation than
 usual.
 
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Re: Media View related Query

[cricket]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 no its not working, i get the following error:

 Error: The requested address '/users/display/game' was not found on
 this server.

If debug is set to 0 and there's any kind of non-fatal error, Cake
throws a 404. It's possible you have an error somewhere.

 Moreover all the file extensions are fixed to be zip and I have files
 on my disk under gamefiles folder in app folder. On clicking link
 three I want game.zip to be downloaded where as on clicking link 2
 example1.zip should be downloaded.

As i said, pass the file name or slug to the action. Don't hard-code
things. It's programming basics.

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Re: Media View related Query

[newguy]

In continuation of the previous post:
In my site on page display there are 4 links and user clicks on it to
download 4 different files. This is the cpt file for this:

pSelect the game to download/p
ul
li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
li
li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
li
li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('controller' =
'users','action' = 'download','slug' = Inflector::slug('game'))); ?
/li
liGame 4/li
/ul

This is my Router::connect:
Router::connect('/users/
display/:slug',array('controller'='users','action'='download'),array('slug'='[-0-9a-
z]+','pass'=array('slug')));
This file to be downloaded on clicking link three is game.zip

Please help me get this link working , thanks

On Feb 3, 11:50 pm, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi I did what was suggested in the above post and now this is my
 download function:

 function download ($slug = null)
          {
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = 'example.zip,
               'name' = 'example',
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'zip',
               'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

        $this-set($params);
     }
 I have three more links on whose click 3 different files should be
 downloded using this very download function, how should I make use of
 this slug to download different files. Should it be this: ???

 function download ($slug = null)
          {
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = $slug,
               'name' = 'example',
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'zip',
               'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

        $this-set($params);
     }

 On Feb 1, 7:13 pm, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote:







  On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:57 PM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
   Hi
   I want to download four different files through 4 different links, I
   am using Media View to download file but I have to hardcode the file
   name in the download function in controller:

   function download () {
          $this-view = 'Media';
          $params = array(
                'id' = 'example.zip',
                'name' = 'example',
                'download' = true,
                'extension' = 'zip',
                'path' = APP . 'files' . DS
         );
         $this-set($params);
      }

   This works fine for one file, now for link number 2,3,4 do I need to
   create 3 different actions and give different file names in them or is
   there a way in which I can use download() only and depending on which
   link has been clicked respective file is downloaded.

  Just pass the file name or slug in the link. I use the latter, where
  each downloadable file has a title and slug:

  Router::connect(
          '/downloads/:slug',
          array(
                  'controller' = 'files',
                  'action' = 'download'
          ),
          array(
                  'slug' = '[-0-9a-z]+',
                  'pass' = array('slug')
          )
  );

  public function download($slug = null) { ... }

  Or you could pass the record ID:

  Router::connect(
          '/downloads/:id',
          array(
                  'controller' = 'files',
                  'action' = 'download'
          ),
          array(
                  'id' = '[0-9]+',
                  'pass' = array('id')
          )
  );

  public function download($id = null) { ... }

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Re: Media View related Query

[cricket]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:50 AM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi I did what was suggested in the above post and now this is my
 download function:

 function download ($slug = null)
         {
        $this-view = 'Media';
        $params = array(
              'id' = 'example.zip,
              'name' = 'example',
              'download' = true,
              'extension' = 'zip',
              'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

       $this-set($params);
    }
 I have three more links on whose click 3 different files should be
 downloded using this very download function, how should I make use of
 this slug to download different files. Should it be this: ???

 function download ($slug = null)
         {
        $this-view = 'Media';
        $params = array(
              'id' = $slug,
              'name' = 'example',
              'download' = true,
              'extension' = 'zip',
              'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

       $this-set($params);
    }

Are all of the files going to be zips? Because you've hard-coded the
extension here. Are your downloadable files recorded in the DB? If so,
save the extension for each record. Use the $slug to fetch the desired
file's data.

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Re: Media View related Query

[cricket]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:20 AM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 In continuation of the previous post:
 In my site on page display there are 4 links and user clicks on it to
 download 4 different files. This is the cpt file for this:

 pSelect the game to download/p
 ul
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
 li
 li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('controller' =
 'users','action' = 'download','slug' = Inflector::slug('game'))); ?
/li
 liGame 4/li
 /ul

 This is my Router::connect:
        Router::connect('/users/
 display/:slug',array('controller'='users','action'='download'),array('slug'='[-0-9a-
 z]+','pass'=array('slug')));
 This file to be downloaded on clicking link three is game.zip

You're getting close. There's no need to call Inflector::slug(),
though, if you're going to hard-code the file.

So, is this not working?

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Re: Media View related Query

[newguy]

no its not working, i get the following error:

Error: The requested address '/users/display/game' was not found on
this server.

Moreover all the file extensions are fixed to be zip and I have files
on my disk under gamefiles folder in app folder. On clicking link
three I want game.zip to be downloaded where as on clicking link 2
example1.zip should be downloaded.

My hurdle is that I want to use the above stated download
function(part of media view) to download different files based on the
link clicked by the user and I followed what you suggested in your
first reply to this thread but it seems that due to my limited
knowledge I couldnt get it right, please help me by explaining in a
little more detail.

Thanks

On Feb 4, 8:34 am, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:20 AM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
  In continuation of the previous post:
  In my site on page display there are 4 links and user clicks on it to
  download 4 different files. This is the cpt file for this:

  pSelect the game to download/p
  ul
  li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
  li
  li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
  li
  li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('controller' =
  'users','action' = 'download','slug' = Inflector::slug('game'))); ?
 /li
  liGame 4/li
  /ul

  This is my Router::connect:
         Router::connect('/users/
  display/:slug',array('controller'='users','action'='download'),array('slu 
  g'='[-0-9a-
  z]+','pass'=array('slug')));
  This file to be downloaded on clicking link three is game.zip

 You're getting close. There's no need to call Inflector::slug(),
 though, if you're going to hard-code the file.

 So, is this not working?

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Re: Media View related Query

[newguy]

Please help someone, am stuck 

On Feb 4, 11:48 am, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 no its not working, i get the following error:

 Error: The requested address '/users/display/game' was not found on
 this server.

 Moreover all the file extensions are fixed to be zip and I have files
 on my disk under gamefiles folder in app folder. On clicking link
 three I want game.zip to be downloaded where as on clicking link 2
 example1.zip should be downloaded.

 My hurdle is that I want to use the above stated download
 function(part of media view) to download different files based on the
 link clicked by the user and I followed what you suggested in your
 first reply to this thread but it seems that due to my limited
 knowledge I couldnt get it right, please help me by explaining in a
 little more detail.

 Thanks

 On Feb 4, 8:34 am, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote:







  On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:20 AM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
   In continuation of the previous post:
   In my site on page display there are 4 links and user clicks on it to
   download 4 different files. This is the cpt file for this:

   pSelect the game to download/p
   ul
   li?php echo $html-link('Game 1',array('action'='download')); ?/
   li
   li?php echo $html-link('Game 2',array('action'='download1')); ?/
   li
   li?php echo $html-link('Game 3',array('controller' =
   'users','action' = 'download','slug' = Inflector::slug('game'))); ?
  /li
   liGame 4/li
   /ul

   This is my Router::connect:
          Router::connect('/users/
   display/:slug',array('controller'='users','action'='download'),array('slu
g'='[-0-9a-
   z]+','pass'=array('slug')));
   This file to be downloaded on clicking link three is game.zip

  You're getting close. There's no need to call Inflector::slug(),
  though, if you're going to hard-code the file.

  So, is this not working?

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Re: Media View related Query

[newguy]

Hi I did what was suggested in the above post and now this is my
download function:

function download ($slug = null)
 {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'example.zip,
  'name' = 'example',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'zip',
  'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

   $this-set($params);
}
I have three more links on whose click 3 different files should be
downloded using this very download function, how should I make use of
this slug to download different files. Should it be this: ???

function download ($slug = null)
 {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = $slug,
  'name' = 'example',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'zip',
  'path' = APP . 'gamefiles' . DS);

   $this-set($params);
}


On Feb 1, 7:13 pm, cricket zijn.digi...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:57 PM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi
  I want to download four different files through 4 different links, I
  am using Media View to download file but I have to hardcode the file
  name in the download function in controller:

  function download () {
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = 'example.zip',
               'name' = 'example',
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'zip',
               'path' = APP . 'files' . DS
        );
        $this-set($params);
     }

  This works fine for one file, now for link number 2,3,4 do I need to
  create 3 different actions and give different file names in them or is
  there a way in which I can use download() only and depending on which
  link has been clicked respective file is downloaded.

 Just pass the file name or slug in the link. I use the latter, where
 each downloadable file has a title and slug:

 Router::connect(
         '/downloads/:slug',
         array(
                 'controller' = 'files',
                 'action' = 'download'
         ),
         array(
                 'slug' = '[-0-9a-z]+',
                 'pass' = array('slug')
         )
 );

 public function download($slug = null) { ... }

 Or you could pass the record ID:

 Router::connect(
         '/downloads/:id',
         array(
                 'controller' = 'files',
                 'action' = 'download'
         ),
         array(
                 'id' = '[0-9]+',
                 'pass' = array('id')
         )
 );

 public function download($id = null) { ... }

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Media View related Query

[newguy]

Hi
I want to download four different files through 4 different links, I
am using Media View to download file but I have to hardcode the file
name in the download function in controller:

function download () {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'example.zip',
  'name' = 'example',
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'zip',
  'path' = APP . 'files' . DS
   );
   $this-set($params);
}

This works fine for one file, now for link number 2,3,4 do I need to
create 3 different actions and give different file names in them or is
there a way in which I can use download() only and depending on which
link has been clicked respective file is downloaded.

Thanks

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Re: Media View related Query

[cricket]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:57 PM, newguy aimanparv...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi
 I want to download four different files through 4 different links, I
 am using Media View to download file but I have to hardcode the file
 name in the download function in controller:

 function download () {
        $this-view = 'Media';
        $params = array(
              'id' = 'example.zip',
              'name' = 'example',
              'download' = true,
              'extension' = 'zip',
              'path' = APP . 'files' . DS
       );
       $this-set($params);
    }

 This works fine for one file, now for link number 2,3,4 do I need to
 create 3 different actions and give different file names in them or is
 there a way in which I can use download() only and depending on which
 link has been clicked respective file is downloaded.

Just pass the file name or slug in the link. I use the latter, where
each downloadable file has a title and slug:

Router::connect(
'/downloads/:slug',
array(
'controller' = 'files',
'action' = 'download'
),
array(
'slug' = '[-0-9a-z]+',
'pass' = array('slug')
)
);

public function download($slug = null) { ... }

Or you could pass the record ID:

Router::connect(
'/downloads/:id',
array(
'controller' = 'files',
'action' = 'download'
),
array(
'id' = '[0-9]+',
'pass' = array('id')
)
);


public function download($id = null) { ... }

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Media View: Dowload works on local machine from external server, but production server gets 0 byte files...

[DigitalDude]

Hey,

I ran into a strange problem today and need help...

I added cake's media view as download action to my app, which works
fine when I download files from my virtual hosts on my dev laptop. The
files are being downloaded from a central fileserver, and all files
are downloaded complete and working from there.

The interesting part is when I try to download the files via my
production server where the app is running, I get 0 byte files! How
can this be?
The folder and files can be accessed by the webserver (I also tried
777 on the files...) and as I said everything works fine from my local
dev machine.

Here's the code by the way:

function download($filename = null) {
$file = $this-Upload-findByFilename($filename);
if(empty($file)) {
$this-Session-setFlash(__('Sorry, could not find
requested file!', true), 'default', array('class' = 'negative'));
$this-redirect($this-referer());
}
$this-view = 'media';
$params = array(
  'id' = $file['Upload']['filename'],
  'name' = $file['Upload']['original_name'],
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = 'pdf',
  'path' = 'http://my.fileserver.com/pdf/'
);
$this-set($params);
}

Could this be an apache problem or something with the mimetype? I just
do not understand why I can download the files from my local computer
when the app runs under XAMPP, but not from the production server...?
If there is an access restriction, why can I get the files from here
but not from a real server?!

Please help...

Regards,

DD

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Re: Media View: Dowload works on local machine from external server, but production server gets 0 byte files...

[euromark]

the path usually doesnt start with http://
its a file path - at least afaik

windows: c:/...
linux /var/www/...

but the constansts should be just about fine:
ROOT.DS.'files'.DS.'whatever'

thats why you need the media view in the first place
because usually you want to serve files that are below the webroot
folder (and need to be passed through in order to get accessable)

On 15 Nov., 16:42, DigitalDude e.blumsten...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hey,

 I ran into a strange problem today and need help...

 I added cake's media view as download action to my app, which works
 fine when I download files from my virtual hosts on my dev laptop. The
 files are being downloaded from a central fileserver, and all files
 are downloaded complete and working from there.

 The interesting part is when I try to download the files via my
 production server where the app is running, I get 0 byte files! How
 can this be?
 The folder and files can be accessed by the webserver (I also tried
 777 on the files...) and as I said everything works fine from my local
 dev machine.

 Here's the code by the way:

 function download($filename = null) {
         $file = $this-Upload-findByFilename($filename);
         if(empty($file)) {
             $this-Session-setFlash(__('Sorry, could not find
 requested file!', true), 'default', array('class' = 'negative'));
             $this-redirect($this-referer());
         }
         $this-view = 'media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = $file['Upload']['filename'],
               'name' = $file['Upload']['original_name'],
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = 'pdf',
               'path' = 'http://my.fileserver.com/pdf/'
         );
         $this-set($params);

 }

 Could this be an apache problem or something with the mimetype? I just
 do not understand why I can download the files from my local computer
 when the app runs under XAMPP, but not from the production server...?
 If there is an access restriction, why can I get the files from here
 but not from a real server?!

 Please help...

 Regards,

 DD

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Debug error with media view

[Jeremy Burns]

I am using the media view to allow customers to download PDF documents
they have purchased. Everything is working fine, but the debug.log has
these lines in it:

2010-09-28 22:53:24 Notice: Notice (8): ob_end_clean() [a
href='ref.outcontrol'ref.outcontrol/a]: failed to delete buffer. No
buffer to delete. in [/xxx/cake/libs/view/media.php, line 274]
2010-09-28 22:53:24 Notice: Notice (8): ob_flush() [a
href='ref.outcontrol'ref.outcontrol/a]: failed to flush buffer. No
buffer to flush. in [/xxx/cake/libs/view/media.php, line 283]

(site path changed to xxx above).

The second line is repeated ~20 times.

Any ideas?

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Display a view in a iframe using Media View

[marco.rizze...@gmail.com]

Hi
I'm using Media view to allow my users to download files and to keep
files on top the web server root.
Now I have the need to display these files inside an iframe of the
page.
I try to use Media View and set 'download' parameter false but I get
an Invalid Content error.
I would ask if exists a pattern to keep files on top the web server
root but to have the possibility to display them on a iframe?
Thanks

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Re: Display a view in a iframe using Media View

[marco.rizze...@gmail.com]

Sorry I have mistake the url in the iframe . All works fine :) .

On 5 Mar, 09:50, marco.rizze...@gmail.com marco.rizze...@gmail.com
wrote:
 Hi
 I'm using Media view to allow my users to download files and to keep
 files on top the web server root.
 Now I have the need to display these files inside an iframe of the
 page.
 I try to use Media View and set 'download' parameter false but I get
 an Invalid Content error.
 I would ask if exists a pattern to keep files on top the web server
 root but to have the possibility to display them on a iframe?
 Thanks

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How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[sebb86]

Hello,
i almost solved my problem, but there is still a little fault. In one
of my views i readout a database cell, with a text inside, e.g. 13.pdf
(13.pdf = document_name).

The little fault is, when i click on the text in the column (e.g.
13.pdf) a download-windows opens and the file i download is called
13.pdf.pdf. :(
So what is wrong there?


Source-code in my view to invoke the download-method in the
controller:
{{{
td?php echo $html-link($document['Document']['document_name'],
array('action'='download', $document['Document']['id'])); ?/td
}}}

Source of my download-function in my documents_controller:
{{{
function download($id = null)
  {
$this-view = 'Media';
$this-autoLayout = false;

$this-Document-recursive = -1;
$document = $this-Document-read(null, $id);

if (empty($document))
{
  $this-redirect('/', 404, true);
}

$file = $document['Document']['document_name'];
$basename = basename($file);
$file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($basename,.),1));

$this-set('id', $document['Document']['document_name']);
$this-set('name', $basename);
$this-set('download', true);
$this-set('extension', $file_extension);
$this-set('path',APP.'files'.DS);
}
}}}
The files are stored in cake - app - files.

Thanks if someone can help!!!

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Re: How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[John Andersen]

The basename function returns the filename with the suffix! Try to
change your code to:

[code]
   $basename = basename($file);
   $file_extension = substr(strrchr($basename,.),1);
   $basename = basename($file, '.'.$file_extension);
...
   $this-set('extension', strtolower($file_extension));
[/code]

The first basename() usage gets the full filename, including the
suffix.
The second basename() usage removes the suffix from the filename.
Hope this helps you on the way,
   John

On Feb 3, 9:34 am, sebb86 kahlc...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hello,
 i almost solved my problem, but there is still a little fault. In one
 of my views i readout a database cell, with a text inside, e.g. 13.pdf
 (13.pdf = document_name).

 The little fault is, when i click on the text in the column (e.g.
 13.pdf) a download-windows opens and the file i download is called
 13.pdf.pdf. :(
 So what is wrong there?

 Source-code in my view to invoke the download-method in the
 controller:
 {{{
 td?php echo $html-link($document['Document']['document_name'],
 array('action'='download', $document['Document']['id'])); ?/td

 }}}

 Source of my download-function in my documents_controller:
 {{{
 function download($id = null)
   {
     $this-view = 'Media';
         $this-autoLayout = false;

                 $this-Document-recursive = -1;
                 $document = $this-Document-read(null, $id);

     if (empty($document))
     {
                   $this-redirect('/', 404, true);
         }

     $file = $document['Document']['document_name'];
     $basename = basename($file);
     $file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($basename,.),1));

     $this-set('id', $document['Document']['document_name']);
     $this-set('name', $basename);
         $this-set('download', true);
     $this-set('extension', $file_extension);
         $this-set('path',APP.'files'.DS);
         

 The files are stored in cake - app - files.

 Thanks if someone can help!!!

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Re: How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[sebb86]

John

Hello,
thanks for your answer! :)
I've added your code.
Well, I found out, that my old code (same result with your code) also
works, but only with 3 of my 4 test-data-rows.
It works for '13.pdf', '288.pdf' and '3.pdf'. It fails for
'19.pdf' (result on click = 19.pdf.pdf) and i absolutely dont know
why??!??!? That's very confusing.
The pdf-fles are all the same, only the filename is changed.

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Re: How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[sebb86]

John

Hello,
thanks for your answer! :)
I've added your code.
Well, I found out, that my old code (same result with your code) also
works, but only with 3 of my 4 test-data-rows.
It works for '13.pdf', '288.pdf' and '3.pdf'. It fails for
'19.pdf' (result on click = 19.pdf.pdf) and i absolutely dont know
why??!??!? That's very confusing.
The pdf-fles are all the same, only the filename is changed.

Also thanks for your addition with strtolower with the file
extension!

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Re: How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[sebb86]

John

Hello,
thanks for your answer! :)
I've added your code.
Well, I found out, that my old code (same result with your code) also
works, but only with 3 of my 4 test-data-rows.
It works for '13.pdf', '288.pdf' and '3.pdf'. It fails for
'19.pdf' (result on click = 19.pdf.pdf) and i absolutely dont know
why??!??!? That's very confusing.
The pdf-fles are all the same, only the filename is changed.

Also thanks for your addition to use strtolower with the file
extension.

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Re: How to correct: double file-extension when i download something (media view)

[John Andersen]

I suggest you turn on debug and add some debug statements in between
your code, so you can see what the content of each variable is at
specific places. Debug is turned on in your core.php file in the
config directory.

Use debug statements:
debug($basename);
debug($file_extension);
and maybe some more, so you can check the content.
Enjoy,
   John

On Feb 4, 9:06 am, sebb86 kahlc...@googlemail.com wrote:
 John

 Hello,
 thanks for your answer! :)
 I've added your code.
 Well, I found out, that my old code (same result with your code) also
 works, but only with 3 of my 4 test-data-rows.
 It works for '13.pdf', '288.pdf' and '3.pdf'. It fails for
 '19.pdf' (result on click = 19.pdf.pdf) and i absolutely dont know
 why??!??!? That's very confusing.
 The pdf-fles are all the same, only the filename is changed.

 Also thanks for your addition to use strtolower with the file
 extension.

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No download progress using media view

[bram]

My app delivers jpeg images and zip files through the media view. Even
though the content length is specified correctly in the response
headers, the browser doesn't use it to display the download progress.

These are the request and response headers:

GET http://localhost/test/DSC03701.jpg Load Flags[LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI
LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI  ] Content Size[3342590] Mime Type[image/
jpeg]

Date[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:44:12 GMT]
  Server[Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-
Patch]
  X-Powered-By[PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5]
  P3P[CP=NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM]
  Content-Disposition[attachment; filename=DSC03701.JPG.jpg;]
  Expires[0]
  Accept-Ranges[bytes]
  Cache-Control[private]
  Pragma[private]
  Content-Length[3342590]
  Keep-Alive[timeout=15, max=100]
  Connection[Keep-Alive]
  Content-Type[application/octet-stream]

These are the response headers when downloading the same file directly
from a web accessible directory:

GET http://localhost/site/pictures/download/350 Load Flags
[LOAD_DOCUMENT_URI  LOAD_INITIAL_DOCUMENT_URI  ] Content Size[3342590]
Mime Type[application/octet-stream]

  Date[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:42:04 GMT]
  Server[Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-
Patch]
  Last-Modified[Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:20:20 GMT]
  Etag[207c-3300fe-47d3737d7a190]
  Accept-Ranges[bytes]
  Content-Length[3342590]
  Keep-Alive[timeout=15, max=94]
  Connection[Keep-Alive]
  Content-Type[image/jpeg]


Tested with FF 3.5.7 and Chrome 4.0.249.43.

My media view variables:
[name] = abcde
[id] = abcde.jpg
[extension] = jpg
[path] = /home/bram/public_html/site/app/uploads/
[download] = 1

Does anyone have a clue what's going on here?
What do browsers expect and how can I tweak the media view parameters
to let it download *with* progress indication?

B
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Re: Media View / Download: How to count finished downloads?

[euromark]

interesting - did you test this?

i doubt this is working
with normal php functionality there is no way the browser returns
whether it is done or not
the browser aborts or is cancelled manually which results in the
script to be terminated
and the termination after a successful download would be indifferent
to it.

there is no callback whatsoever to use afterwards. thats what i
thought anyway.


On 4 Jan., 08:19, biesbjerg k...@biesbjerg.com wrote:
 Hey,

 I modified the MediaView to be a Component, and added some stuff - you
 can find the component here:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/599576961

 1. Add to components array in the controller.
 2. Parameters are the same, only you should use 
 $this-Download-download($params); instead of $this-set($params); (And no 
 need to

 set the view to 'media'
 3. the download-method returns true only successful download, false if
 interrupted/cancelled
 4. Additional variables are available after a file has been downloaded
 (or not): $this-Download-speed (KB/s), $this-Download-time (How
 long did it take to send the file), $this-Download-sent (If
 interrupted, how much was sent to the user)

 On Jan 3, 6:10 pm, DigitalDude e.blumsten...@googlemail.com wrote:

  Hey,

  in my app I have some type of file uploading, and also downloading.
  I'm using Cake's Media View, so I can send the file to the user after
  authenticating that he/she is allowed to get that file.

  So I was wondering, is there any chance to COUNT these downloads? All
  I have in my action is a view-like action which sets the params. I
  could then just save a counting value to my databse, but I think
  that's not really the way to go...

  (basic usage of the media view...)

          $this-view = 'media';
          $params = array(
                'id' = $file['Upload']['hash'],
                'name' = $file['Upload']['name'],
                'download' = true,
                'extension' = $file['Upload']['type'],
                'path' = APP . '/uploads/'.$modelpath.'/'
         );
         $this-set($params);

  Is there any kind of callback or so after a user has successfully
  downloaded a file?

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Media View / Download: How to count finished downloads?

[DigitalDude]

Hey,

in my app I have some type of file uploading, and also downloading.
I'm using Cake's Media View, so I can send the file to the user after
authenticating that he/she is allowed to get that file.

So I was wondering, is there any chance to COUNT these downloads? All
I have in my action is a view-like action which sets the params. I
could then just save a counting value to my databse, but I think
that's not really the way to go...

(basic usage of the media view...)

$this-view = 'media';
$params = array(
  'id' = $file['Upload']['hash'],
  'name' = $file['Upload']['name'],
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = $file['Upload']['type'],
  'path' = APP . '/uploads/'.$modelpath.'/'
   );
   $this-set($params);

Is there any kind of callback or so after a user has successfully
downloaded a file?

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Re: Media View / Download: How to count finished downloads?

[euromark]

you can ONLY check if somebody starts to download
not if he stops it or finishes it

for counting just add the model method call before
you pass those vars to the media view

$this-Model-touch();
$this-set($params);

with touch() being your count method!

(in your controller action)


On 3 Jan., 18:10, DigitalDude e.blumsten...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hey,

 in my app I have some type of file uploading, and also downloading.
 I'm using Cake's Media View, so I can send the file to the user after
 authenticating that he/she is allowed to get that file.

 So I was wondering, is there any chance to COUNT these downloads? All
 I have in my action is a view-like action which sets the params. I
 could then just save a counting value to my databse, but I think
 that's not really the way to go...

 (basic usage of the media view...)

         $this-view = 'media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = $file['Upload']['hash'],
               'name' = $file['Upload']['name'],
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = $file['Upload']['type'],
               'path' = APP . '/uploads/'.$modelpath.'/'
        );
        $this-set($params);

 Is there any kind of callback or so after a user has successfully
 downloaded a file?

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Re: Media View / Download: How to count finished downloads?

[biesbjerg]

Hey,

I modified the MediaView to be a Component, and added some stuff - you
can find the component here: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/599576961

1. Add to components array in the controller.
2. Parameters are the same, only you should use $this-Download-
download($params); instead of $this-set($params); (And no need to
set the view to 'media'
3. the download-method returns true only successful download, false if
interrupted/cancelled
4. Additional variables are available after a file has been downloaded
(or not): $this-Download-speed (KB/s), $this-Download-time (How
long did it take to send the file), $this-Download-sent (If
interrupted, how much was sent to the user)

On Jan 3, 6:10 pm, DigitalDude e.blumsten...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hey,

 in my app I have some type of file uploading, and also downloading.
 I'm using Cake's Media View, so I can send the file to the user after
 authenticating that he/she is allowed to get that file.

 So I was wondering, is there any chance to COUNT these downloads? All
 I have in my action is a view-like action which sets the params. I
 could then just save a counting value to my databse, but I think
 that's not really the way to go...

 (basic usage of the media view...)

         $this-view = 'media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = $file['Upload']['hash'],
               'name' = $file['Upload']['name'],
               'download' = true,
               'extension' = $file['Upload']['type'],
               'path' = APP . '/uploads/'.$modelpath.'/'
        );
        $this-set($params);

 Is there any kind of callback or so after a user has successfully
 downloaded a file?

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When I use Media View ,my session deleted

[Saleh Souzanchi]

i use my custom auth system  in my project and it save user
informatin  into session(no used Auth Component)


$this-Session-write( 'Cms.User', array (...) );


 when is  use  This Code


function profile_donwload( $paperID )
{
  if ( $file = $this-Paper-Attachment-read( null, $paperID ) )
  {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = 'paper.'.$file['Attachment']['format'],
  'name' = $file['Attachment']['fname'],
  'download' = true,
  'extension' = $file['Attachment']['format'],
  'path' = WWW_ROOT .'data'.DS.$file['Attachment']
['for'].DS.$file['Attachment']['paper_id'].DS
   );
   $this-set($params);
  }
}


 after Downloading file or Canceling it ,my session's deleted,why ?

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Re: caching Media View

[jperras]

Setting the 'cache' option will send the Cache-Control: max-
age=time, Expires=converted time and Pragma: cache headers. It
does not change the response HTTP 1.1 code to 304, nor does it set the
If-Modified-Since header.

-j.

On Oct 31, 2:17 am, tol daviddevr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can someone tell me how caching in media views is supposed to work?

 example:
         $this-view = 'Media';
         $params = array(
               'id' = $id,
               'cache' = 10,
               'download' = false,
               'extension' = 'jpg',
               'path' = 'restricted' . DS . 'uservideo' . DS

        );
        $this-set($params);

 Works fine but I get the feeling its not caching. The headers of the
 images are 200 OK not 304
 Am I doing something wrong? Or am I misunderstanding / overlooking
 something?
 'cache'=true does not change anything either...
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caching Media View

[tol]

Can someone tell me how caching in media views is supposed to work?

example:
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
  'id' = $id,
  'cache' = 10,
  'download' = false,
  'extension' = 'jpg',
  'path' = 'restricted' . DS . 'uservideo' . DS

   );
   $this-set($params);

Works fine but I get the feeling its not caching. The headers of the
images are 200 OK not 304
Am I doing something wrong? Or am I misunderstanding / overlooking
something?
'cache'=true does not change anything either...
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Chain media view

[Thiago Nuic Vidigal]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a chain media view in order to integrate my system with
another one. One of the issues I'm having is showing images. Since the
system that holds the images is using media view to protect the images I was
wondering if it is possible to chain the response from the media view of one
system to media view to another. One lazy approach would be to pass the
session_id as a GET parameter, but that would not be very nice. In java I
would use a chain of streams. Anyone had this problem?

Thank in advance.
Thiago Nuic Vidigal

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Re: Chain media view

[Thiago Nuic Vidigal]

Got it working by creating my own Media view based on CakePHP's one.


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Thiago Nuic Vidigal tvidi...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 I'm trying to make a chain media view in order to integrate my system with
 another one. One of the issues I'm having is showing images. Since the
 system that holds the images is using media view to protect the images I was
 wondering if it is possible to chain the response from the media view of one
 system to media view to another. One lazy approach would be to pass the
 session_id as a GET parameter, but that would not be very nice. In java I
 would use a chain of streams. Anyone had this problem?

 Thank in advance.
 Thiago Nuic Vidigal


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Re: getting a 404 with Media View

[Stinkbug]

Thanks brian!  I finally got around to testing this in our production
environment tonight.  Sure enough, the path wasn't right.  I added
APP . to the front of my path and it fixed the problem.  Thanks for
the advice.  It's still odd to me that it works in our test
environment fine without it, but not in production.  Wonder if there
is some sort of configuration in apache that could cause this.  Oh
well, got it working, thanks again!

On Jul 28, 12:32 pm, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote:
 MediaView::render() fires a 404 if ... you guessed it--the file cannot be 
 found.

 I had some similar trouble a while back (see link below). I placed a
 die(debug($path)) line just before that check and eventually figured
 out the problem is that is_dir() can use a relative path and it was
 throwing things off. I'm sorry that I can't remember the details
 better than that but I solved the problem by setting path param like
 so:

 'path' = APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS,

 Although, if your app is working locally, perhaps the problem is
 simply that apache doesn't have read permission on that directory. But
 start with debugging the path to be sure it what you expect.

 http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/0f648c14...

 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Stinkbugjustink...@gmail.com wrote:

  I'm assuming this is an apache config problem, but I'm not sure what
  could be causing it.  Thought I'd just ask the community to see if
  anyone knew what the problem might be.

  I'm using the Media view to download files and have the files
  directory outside the webroot.  I'm getting a 404 Page cannot be found
  error when tring to download the file.  It works in out test
  envirnoment just fine, but when I move into production, I get this
  error.  Could it be an apache config problem, or an app problem?


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Re: getting a 404 with Media View

[JamesF]

sounds like a permissions problem. who owns that directory? if you are
in a shell type chown accountnameHere /htmldirectory/
and check read/execute permissions. also a stray or
misconfigured .htaccess can cause these problems.

On Jul 28, 10:37 am, Stinkbug justink...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm assuming this is an apache config problem, but I'm not sure what
 could be causing it.  Thought I'd just ask the community to see if
 anyone knew what the problem might be.

 I'm using the Media view to download files and have the files
 directory outside the webroot.  I'm getting a 404 Page cannot be found
 error when tring to download the file.  It works in out test
 envirnoment just fine, but when I move into production, I get this
 error.  Could it be an apache config problem, or an app problem?
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Re: getting a 404 with Media View

[Stinkbug]

Thanks for the tips guys.  I'll have to do these tests late at night
since it's on a production box.  Since I'm using CakePHP I haven't
messed with the .htaccess files.  They are what comes with Cake.  The
permissions on the directory is chmod 777.  the owner and groups are
root.data, the same as our test box and it works fine there.  The
files in the directory are wwwrun.www, which is the apache user I
guess.

My files directory is actually outside of the app directory.  I wanted
to set it up this way for deployment reasons.  So with the debug
information on my local windows box, I get something like this:

C:\wamp\www\intranet\app\../files\filename.pdf

which I thought was a bit odd, but it still works.

On our test linux box I got something like this.

/srv/www/vhosts/intranet/app/../files/filename.pdf

and it works fine.  I'm leaning towards some sort of config problem,
whether it's permissions or something in apache.  It's just odd to me
that it would work fine on my local box and the test server, but not
on production.  I'll check the debug stuff on production tonight
probably.
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Re: getting a 404 with Media View

[JamesF]

well let us know what you come up with it may help someone in the
future

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 Thanks for the tips guys.  I'll have to do these tests late at night
 since it's on a production box.  Since I'm using CakePHP I haven't
 messed with the .htaccess files.  They are what comes with Cake.  The
 permissions on the directory is chmod 777.  the owner and groups are
 root.data, the same as our test box and it works fine there.  The
 files in the directory are wwwrun.www, which is the apache user I
 guess.

 My files directory is actually outside of the app directory.  I wanted
 to set it up this way for deployment reasons.  So with the debug
 information on my local windows box, I get something like this:

 C:\wamp\www\intranet\app\../files\filename.pdf

 which I thought was a bit odd, but it still works.

 On our test linux box I got something like this.

 /srv/www/vhosts/intranet/app/../files/filename.pdf

 and it works fine.  I'm leaning towards some sort of config problem,
 whether it's permissions or something in apache.  It's just odd to me
 that it would work fine on my local box and the test server, but not
 on production.  I'll check the debug stuff on production tonight
 probably.
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getting a 404 with Media View

[Stinkbug]

I'm assuming this is an apache config problem, but I'm not sure what
could be causing it.  Thought I'd just ask the community to see if
anyone knew what the problem might be.

I'm using the Media view to download files and have the files
directory outside the webroot.  I'm getting a 404 Page cannot be found
error when tring to download the file.  It works in out test
envirnoment just fine, but when I move into production, I get this
error.  Could it be an apache config problem, or an app problem?
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Re: getting a 404 with Media View

[brian]

MediaView::render() fires a 404 if ... you guessed it--the file cannot be found.

I had some similar trouble a while back (see link below). I placed a
die(debug($path)) line just before that check and eventually figured
out the problem is that is_dir() can use a relative path and it was
throwing things off. I'm sorry that I can't remember the details
better than that but I solved the problem by setting path param like
so:

'path' = APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS,

Although, if your app is working locally, perhaps the problem is
simply that apache doesn't have read permission on that directory. But
start with debugging the path to be sure it what you expect.

http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/0f648c149c67bdcd/ec1f52e6f593017a?lnk=raotfwc=1


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Stinkbugjustink...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm assuming this is an apache config problem, but I'm not sure what
 could be causing it.  Thought I'd just ask the community to see if
 anyone knew what the problem might be.

 I'm using the Media view to download files and have the files
 directory outside the webroot.  I'm getting a 404 Page cannot be found
 error when tring to download the file.  It works in out test
 envirnoment just fine, but when I move into production, I get this
 error.  Could it be an apache config problem, or an app problem?
 


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Re: Media View and Caching

[Galdan]

Hi together,

thank you for the responses.

Link-Protection is not the only reason why i use them.

I also use Media Views for counting the hits on the images.

I changed the application in the way that thumbnails dont get loaded
by mediaview and only the high-res pictures (which should get counted
and protected) are done by it.

Thank you!

bye
Tom

On 10 Jun., 18:04, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Matt Currym...@mcurry.net wrote:

  I don't think caching will help you here, since the image is a static
  file.  The big difference is that in the case where you just link to
  the image your web server can return it directly.  When you go through
  the MediaView your webserver needs to use PHP which will always be
  slower, regardless of the framework.

  If you're just trying to prevent link stealing you should look into
  handling this directly with your web server.

 Just to add to Matt''s comment: look into using mod_rewrite to prevent
 hotlinking. Using MediaView for this is overkill.
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Media View and Caching

[Galdan]

Hi together,

in my application i've a image gallery. And i show the images by a
media view (against link stealing).

But all the time the images gets parsed completly by the media view.

So i wan't to cache the output for a long time (1 month or something).

But the usual cache functions seems not to work with media views.

For example, a page with 100 pictures takes about 30 seconds to get
loaded when i use media views, and it takes only 3 seconds if i put
them directly in the page by image tags.

Does anybody know some hints?

Thank you in advance
bye
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Re: Media View and Caching

[Matt Curry]

I don't think caching will help you here, since the image is a static
file.  The big difference is that in the case where you just link to
the image your web server can return it directly.  When you go through
the MediaView your webserver needs to use PHP which will always be
slower, regardless of the framework.

If you're just trying to prevent link stealing you should look into
handling this directly with your web server.

-Matt
http://www.pseudocoder.com


On Jun 10, 7:51 am, Galdan beyer.tho...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi together,

 in my application i've a image gallery. And i show the images by a
 media view (against link stealing).

 But all the time the images gets parsed completly by the media view.

 So i wan't to cache the output for a long time (1 month or something).

 But the usual cache functions seems not to work with media views.

 For example, a page with 100 pictures takes about 30 seconds to get
 loaded when i use media views, and it takes only 3 seconds if i put
 them directly in the page by image tags.

 Does anybody know some hints?

 Thank you in advance
 bye
 Tom
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Re: Media View and Caching

[brian]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Matt Currym...@mcurry.net wrote:

 I don't think caching will help you here, since the image is a static
 file.  The big difference is that in the case where you just link to
 the image your web server can return it directly.  When you go through
 the MediaView your webserver needs to use PHP which will always be
 slower, regardless of the framework.

 If you're just trying to prevent link stealing you should look into
 handling this directly with your web server.


Just to add to Matt''s comment: look into using mod_rewrite to prevent
hotlinking. Using MediaView for this is overkill.

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Re: trouble with Media view

[brian]

I don't see how that would change anything, as it's the $id that's
appended to $path. The issue appears to be that is_dir() can take a
relative path.

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:04 PM, bram brammele...@gmail.com wrote:

 Did you try 'name' = 'test' (without extension)?

 I don't know why the parameters to the media view are that
 complicated... note that the extension should be lower case. In my
 application, the absolute path to the file is known. Even then, it's
 quite a hassle to get in properlly in the media template. I've used
 the following code:

 $path_parts = pathinfo($filepath);

 $params = array();
 $params['id'] = $path_parts['basename'];
 $params['name'] = $path_parts['filename'];
 $params['extension'] = strtolower($path_parts['extension']);
 $params['path'] = $path_parts['dirname'] . DS;
 $params['download'] = true;


 On Apr 21, 6:30 am, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote:
 Mediaviewkeeps throwing up a 404 because of the following code:

 if (is_dir($path)) {
         $path = $path . $id;} else {

         $path = APP . $path . $id;

 }

 if (!file_exists($path)) {
         header('Content-Type: text/html');
         $this-cakeError('error404');

 }

 Here are my params, btw:

 Array
 (
     [id] = test.jpg
     [name] = test.jpg
     [download] = 1
     [extension] = jpg
     [path] = files/test/
 )

 That path is under APP, not WWW_ROOT, as it should be.

 What's happening is that is_dir() can take a relative path and so is
 checking relative tp APP and returning true. However, file_exists()
 must have an absolute path.

 When I changed my code to:
 'path' = APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS

 Everything worked.

 I didn't see anything on bugtrac. Shouldn't this problem be cropping
 up for everybody that uses the recommended relative-to-app path?!?
 


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Re: trouble with Media view

[bram]

Did you try 'name' = 'test' (without extension)?

I don't know why the parameters to the media view are that
complicated... note that the extension should be lower case. In my
application, the absolute path to the file is known. Even then, it's
quite a hassle to get in properlly in the media template. I've used
the following code:

$path_parts = pathinfo($filepath);

$params = array();
$params['id'] = $path_parts['basename'];
$params['name'] = $path_parts['filename'];
$params['extension'] = strtolower($path_parts['extension']);
$params['path'] = $path_parts['dirname'] . DS;
$params['download'] = true;


On Apr 21, 6:30 am, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote:
 Mediaviewkeeps throwing up a 404 because of the following code:

 if (is_dir($path)) {
         $path = $path . $id;} else {

         $path = APP . $path . $id;

 }

 if (!file_exists($path)) {
         header('Content-Type: text/html');
         $this-cakeError('error404');

 }

 Here are my params, btw:

 Array
 (
     [id] = test.jpg
     [name] = test.jpg
     [download] = 1
     [extension] = jpg
     [path] = files/test/
 )

 That path is under APP, not WWW_ROOT, as it should be.

 What's happening is that is_dir() can take a relative path and so is
 checking relative tp APP and returning true. However, file_exists()
 must have an absolute path.

 When I changed my code to:
 'path' = APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS

 Everything worked.

 I didn't see anything on bugtrac. Shouldn't this problem be cropping
 up for everybody that uses the recommended relative-to-app path?!?
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trouble with Media view

[brian]

Media view keeps throwing up a 404 because of the following code:

if (is_dir($path)) {
$path = $path . $id;
} else {
$path = APP . $path . $id;
}

if (!file_exists($path)) {
header('Content-Type: text/html');
$this-cakeError('error404');
}

Here are my params, btw:

Array
(
[id] = test.jpg
[name] = test.jpg
[download] = 1
[extension] = jpg
[path] = files/test/
)

That path is under APP, not WWW_ROOT, as it should be.

What's happening is that is_dir() can take a relative path and so is
checking relative tp APP and returning true. However, file_exists()
must have an absolute path.

When I changed my code to:
'path' = APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS

Everything worked.

I didn't see anything on bugtrac. Shouldn't this problem be cropping
up for everybody that uses the recommended relative-to-app path?!?

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Re: media view and files on the fly

[Matt Curry]

Sorry, forgot to mention: you also need to tell it to use that view
renderer.  In your action:
$this-view = 'AppMedia';

Although the way you have it works too, the only thing you lose is the
ability to access the original MediaView, which isn't a big deal since
this one does all the same things.

-Matt
http://www.pseudocoder.com

On Mar 31, 5:15 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
wrote:
 are you sure it is app_media.php then?
 i only got it to work by leaving it the same name media.php in /app/
 views/

 mark

 On 31 Mrz., 21:45, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

  nice :)
  thx

  On 31 Mrz., 15:17, Matt Curry m...@mcurry.net wrote:

   I had to do this with pdf/xls files returned by a webservice.  I took
   the default media view (/cake/libs/views/media.php) and copied it to /
   app/views/app_media.php.

   Then I modified it so that it checked for a $content view var and
   wrote that to a tmpfile.
   Here's the diff:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1310700342

   -Matthttp://www.pseudocoder.com

   On Mar 30, 1:05 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
   wrote:

i tried to use the media view for files generated on thefly(some
exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
existing files on the server

trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
with the echoed content

echo 'blabla'
or
$content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?


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Re: media view and files on the fly

[Martin Westin]

I have so far lest MediaView alone and gone a different way for
fake, dynamic, files.

I have made use of parseExtensions to output files. The examples
mostly show rss feeds but you can just as easily use it to generate an
Excel sheet full of statistics about something on your site or any
other dynamic output.

/Martin


On Mar 30, 7:05 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
wrote:
 i tried to use the media view for files generated on the fly (some
 exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
 but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
 existing files on the server

 trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
 so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
 with the echoed content

 echo 'blabla'
 or
 $content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

 without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?
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Re: media view and files on the fly

[Matt Curry]

I had to do this with pdf/xls files returned by a webservice.  I took
the default media view (/cake/libs/views/media.php) and copied it to /
app/views/app_media.php.

Then I modified it so that it checked for a $content view var and
wrote that to a tmpfile.
Here's the diff:
http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1310700342

-Matt
http://www.pseudocoder.com

On Mar 30, 1:05 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
wrote:
 i tried to use the media view for files generated on the fly (some
 exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
 but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
 existing files on the server

 trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
 so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
 with the echoed content

 echo 'blabla'
 or
 $content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

 without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?
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Re: media view and files on the fly

[Mark (Germany)]

nice :)
thx

On 31 Mrz., 15:17, Matt Curry m...@mcurry.net wrote:
 I had to do this with pdf/xls files returned by a webservice.  I took
 the default media view (/cake/libs/views/media.php) and copied it to /
 app/views/app_media.php.

 Then I modified it so that it checked for a $content view var and
 wrote that to a tmpfile.
 Here's the diff:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1310700342

 -Matthttp://www.pseudocoder.com

 On Mar 30, 1:05 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

  i tried to use the media view for files generated on the fly (some
  exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
  but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
  existing files on the server

  trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
  so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
  with the echoed content

  echo 'blabla'
  or
  $content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

  without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?
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Re: media view and files on the fly

[Mark (Germany)]

are you sure it is app_media.php then?
i only got it to work by leaving it the same name media.php in /app/
views/

mark



On 31 Mrz., 21:45, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
wrote:
 nice :)
 thx

 On 31 Mrz., 15:17, Matt Curry m...@mcurry.net wrote:

  I had to do this with pdf/xls files returned by a webservice.  I took
  the default media view (/cake/libs/views/media.php) and copied it to /
  app/views/app_media.php.

  Then I modified it so that it checked for a $content view var and
  wrote that to a tmpfile.
  Here's the diff:http://bin.cakephp.org/view/1310700342

  -Matthttp://www.pseudocoder.com

  On Mar 30, 1:05 pm, Mark (Germany) dereurom...@googlemail.com
  wrote:

   i tried to use the media view for files generated on thefly(some
   exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
   but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
   existing files on the server

   trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
   so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
   with the echoed content

   echo 'blabla'
   or
   $content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

   without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?
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media view and files on the fly

[Mark (Germany)]

i tried to use the media view for files generated on the fly (some
exported text inside a export.txt or whatever)
but it seems like the media view can only handle downloads of
existing files on the server

trying to rewrite it did not turn out very well
so, did anyone manage to create a txt file to download, that is filled
with the echoed content

echo 'blabla'
or
$content = 'blabla' transfered to the media view

without creating locale (temp.) files on the server?
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Re: Media View not downloading unless I set headers

[Mike Cook]

Okay, after a short distraction regarding pagination, I went in and
checked both the Cake and Apache logs.

The Cake error.log shows no errors. (\app\tmp\logs)

There were also no errors in the apache\logs\error.log so I checked
out the access.log. The response was...

127.0.0.1 - - [01/Mar/2009:17:14:07 +0100] GET /books/view/1 HTTP/
1.1 200 13472
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Mar/2009:17:14:09 +0100] GET /books/download/
test.epub HTTP/1.1 200 3104

The Apache Docs say, regarding the 200, that;

This is the status code that the server sends back to the client.
This information is very valuable, because it reveals whether the
request resulted in a successful response (codes beginning in 2), a
redirection (codes beginning in 3), an error caused by the client
(codes beginning in 4), or an error in the server (codes beginning in
5). The full list of possible status codes can be found in the HTTP
specification (RFC2616 section 10).

Does this mean that $this-set($params);  in the Media View is not
forcing the download? Any ideas on where I am going wrong on this?


On Feb 26, 3:04 am, brian bally.z...@gmail.com wrote:
 Have you checked your error log? A white screen typically means a fatal error.

 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mike Cook m...@epubbooks.com wrote:

  I am unable to get the Media View to force the download to start, no
  error is given other than it just lands on a blank page. Here's the
  download function in my controller;

   function download ($id = null) {
     list($file_name, $file_ext) = split('[.]', $id);
     $this-view = 'Media';
       $params = array(
         'id' = $file_name . '.' . $file_ext,
         'name' = $file_name,
         'download' = true,
         'extension' = 'epub',
         'path' = 'app' . DS . 'files' . DS,
         'mimeType', array('epub' = 'application/epub+zip'
       ));
     $this-set($params);
   }

  Like I say, no download (I tried with an without the 'app'.DS on the
  path) but if I send the headers like in this post then it works;

 http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/cf567fbb...

  So, I replace $this-set($params) with;

       if(!empty($id)){
       $file = $params['path'] . $params['id'];
       $data = file_get_contents($file);
       $size = filesize($file);
       if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])  strpos($_SERVER
  ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') ) {
         header('Content-Type:application/force-download');
       } else {
         header('Content-Type:application/epub+zip');
         header('Content-Length:' . $size);
         header('Content-disposition:attachment;filename=' . $params
  ['id'] . '');
         echo $data;
       }
     } else {
       $this-redirect();
       exit();
     }

  I guess that Media View was implemented so we don't have to send the
  headers ourselves - or am I am wrong?

  Does anyone have any ideas why the default Model View method is not
  working?
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Media View not downloading unless I set headers

[Mike Cook]

I am unable to get the Media View to force the download to start, no
error is given other than it just lands on a blank page. Here's the
download function in my controller;

  function download ($id = null) {
list($file_name, $file_ext) = split('[.]', $id);
$this-view = 'Media';
  $params = array(
'id' = $file_name . '.' . $file_ext,
'name' = $file_name,
'download' = true,
'extension' = 'epub',
'path' = 'app' . DS . 'files' . DS,
'mimeType', array('epub' = 'application/epub+zip'
  ));
$this-set($params);
  }

Like I say, no download (I tried with an without the 'app'.DS on the
path) but if I send the headers like in this post then it works;

http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/cf567fbb9beccfcb/b69133b6c7d70fa6?hl=enlnk=gstq=how+to+have+file+downloads#b69133b6c7d70fa6

So, I replace $this-set($params) with;

  if(!empty($id)){
  $file = $params['path'] . $params['id'];
  $data = file_get_contents($file);
  $size = filesize($file);
  if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])  strpos($_SERVER
['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') ) {
header('Content-Type:application/force-download');
  } else {
header('Content-Type:application/epub+zip');
header('Content-Length:' . $size);
header('Content-disposition:attachment;filename=' . $params
['id'] . '');
echo $data;
  }
} else {
  $this-redirect();
  exit();
}

I guess that Media View was implemented so we don't have to send the
headers ourselves - or am I am wrong?

Does anyone have any ideas why the default Model View method is not
working?
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Re: Media View not downloading unless I set headers

[brian]

Have you checked your error log? A white screen typically means a fatal error.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Mike Cook m...@epubbooks.com wrote:

 I am unable to get the Media View to force the download to start, no
 error is given other than it just lands on a blank page. Here's the
 download function in my controller;

  function download ($id = null) {
    list($file_name, $file_ext) = split('[.]', $id);
    $this-view = 'Media';
      $params = array(
        'id' = $file_name . '.' . $file_ext,
        'name' = $file_name,
        'download' = true,
        'extension' = 'epub',
        'path' = 'app' . DS . 'files' . DS,
        'mimeType', array('epub' = 'application/epub+zip'
      ));
    $this-set($params);
  }

 Like I say, no download (I tried with an without the 'app'.DS on the
 path) but if I send the headers like in this post then it works;

 http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_thread/thread/cf567fbb9beccfcb/b69133b6c7d70fa6?hl=enlnk=gstq=how+to+have+file+downloads#b69133b6c7d70fa6

 So, I replace $this-set($params) with;

      if(!empty($id)){
      $file = $params['path'] . $params['id'];
      $data = file_get_contents($file);
      $size = filesize($file);
      if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])  strpos($_SERVER
 ['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') ) {
        header('Content-Type:application/force-download');
      } else {
        header('Content-Type:application/epub+zip');
        header('Content-Length:' . $size);
        header('Content-disposition:attachment;filename=' . $params
 ['id'] . '');
        echo $data;
      }
    } else {
      $this-redirect();
      exit();
    }

 I guess that Media View was implemented so we don't have to send the
 headers ourselves - or am I am wrong?

 Does anyone have any ideas why the default Model View method is not
 working?
 


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Media view not working

[Miles J]

So im trying to get this media view working, but it doesn't seem to
force the download. All it does is show a white page and the query
output, any ideas? Heres my action:


/**
 * Downloads a file
 * @param int $upload_id
 * @return media
 */
function download($upload_id) {
$this-view = 'Media';

$file = $this-Upload-find('first', array(
'conditions' = array('Upload.id' = $upload_id),
'contain' = array('Current')
));

if (!empty($file)) {

$this-Upload-increaseDownloadCount($file['Current']['id']);
}

$params = array(
'id' = $file['Current']['filename'],
'name' = $file['Upload']['name'] .' v'. 
$file['Current']
['version'],
'download' = true,
'extension' = $file['Current']['type'],
'path' = 'files'.DS
);

$this-set($params);
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Re: Media view not working

[Miles J]

Ah nvm, it seemed I had the filename misspelt. Stupid me.
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Media View - Acceptable Mime Types

[sotin]

I originally posted this question in the CakePHP documentation but
have moved it here for further discussion

1 - Modify acceptable mime types?

What is the best way to add an mime type to the 'acceptable' mime
types list? I haven't been able to find anything aside from editing
cake\libs\view\media.php, which I do not want to do for obvious
reasons. Extending the MediaView class also seems a little excessive
just to add one mime type.

I am trying to add xlsx download support (application/
vnd.openxmlformats)

Thanks!


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Re: Media View - Acceptable Mime Types

[sotin]

Posted as a reply at http://book.cakephp.org/view/489/Media-Views

2 - Acceptable MIME types are declared in web server

For Apache the acceptable MIME types are given in [apache root]\conf
\mime.types or alternatively you can specify in [apache root]\conf
\httd.conf with AddType directive; e.g.

AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats xlsx


On Nov 24, 9:55 am, sotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I originally posted this question in the CakePHP documentation but
 have moved it here for further discussion

 1 - Modify acceptable mime types?

 What is the best way to add an mime type to the 'acceptable' mime
 types list? I haven't been able to find anything aside from editing
 cake\libs\view\media.php, which I do not want to do for obvious
 reasons. Extending the MediaView class also seems a little excessive
 just to add one mime type.

 I am trying to add xlsx download support (application/
 vnd.openxmlformats)

 Thanks!
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Re: Media View - Acceptable Mime Types

[sotin]

Using cake version 1.2.0.7692 RC3 it does not appear that the
MediaView class pays any attention to the apache mime types (nor
should it since this would be web server specific).  Acceptable mime
types in cake are hard coded in cake/libs/view/media.php.  Even with
the .xlsx extension defined (using AddType) in Apache the cake media
view will not allow downloads of this file extention until the
extension is added into the $mimeType array in the media.php file.

Is there another way to add mime types aside from extending this
class? Maybe this could become a feature request ticket?

Thanks!



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 Posted as a reply athttp://book.cakephp.org/view/489/Media-Views

 2 - Acceptable MIME types are declared in web server

 For Apache the acceptable MIME types are given in [apache root]\conf
 \mime.types or alternatively you can specify in [apache root]\conf
 \httd.conf with AddType directive; e.g.

 AddType application/vnd.openxmlformats xlsx

 On Nov 24, 9:55 am, sotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I originally posted this question in the CakePHP documentation but
  have moved it here for further discussion

  1 - Modify acceptable mime types?

  What is the best way to add an mime type to the 'acceptable' mime
  types list? I haven't been able to find anything aside from editing
  cake\libs\view\media.php, which I do not want to do for obvious
  reasons. Extending the MediaView class also seems a little excessive
  just to add one mime type.

  I am trying to add xlsx download support (application/
  vnd.openxmlformats)

  Thanks!
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Re: Media View - Acceptable Mime Types

[dr. Hannibal Lecter]

Here's a bit of shameless self-promotion:

http://dsi.vozibrale.com/articles/view/mediaview-is-a-bleeding-bastard

http://dsi.vozibrale.com/articles/view/downloadview-a-mediaview-replacement-for-cakephp

Hope that helps!

On Nov 24, 3:55 pm, sotin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I originally posted this question in the CakePHP documentation but
 have moved it here for further discussion

 1 - Modify acceptable mime types?

 What is the best way to add an mime type to the 'acceptable' mime
 types list? I haven't been able to find anything aside from editing
 cake\libs\view\media.php, which I do not want to do for obvious
 reasons. Extending the MediaView class also seems a little excessive
 just to add one mime type.

 I am trying to add xlsx download support (application/
 vnd.openxmlformats)

 Thanks!
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media view with files on different server

[JuergenRiemer]

Hi bakers,

I want to use the media view component to manage downloads of files
that reside on a different server

function download() {
$this-view = 'Media';
$params = array(
'id' = 'afile.pdf',
'name' = 'afile',
'download' = true,
'extension' = 'pdf',
'path' = '\\host\disk_d\files\'
);
$this-set($params);
}

path is relative to APP as put in media.php line 111. Do I have to
modify the file ( take out the APP constant ) to make that work? Is
there a more elegant way?
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Re: media view with files on different server

[Adam Royle]

When you say different server do you mean one that is on a different
domain/website? If so, you can just redirect to that file and not use
the media view at all.

The media view is used to read local files.

Cheers,
Adam

On Nov 5, 6:15 pm, JuergenRiemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi bakers,

 I want to use the media view component to manage downloads of files
 that reside on a different server

 function download() {
                 $this-view = 'Media';
                 $params = array(
                         'id' = 'afile.pdf',
                         'name' = 'afile',
                         'download' = true,
                         'extension' = 'pdf',
                         'path' = '\\host\disk_d\files\'
                 );
                 $this-set($params);

 }

 path is relative to APP as put in media.php line 111. Do I have to
 modify the file ( take out the APP constant ) to make that work? Is
 there a more elegant way?
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Re: media view with files on different server

[Mathew]

He's asking how to define the path to the file as absolute rather then
relative to the app folder.

Which you can't because the MediaView.php file is hard coded to
compute the path as follows.

$path = APP . $path . $id;

There are two ways to resolve this problem.

1) Change the MediaView.php file as you see fit.
2) Create link in your app folder to the other mounted server.
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