Great contribution!! thanks! On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, cleve <[email protected]> wrote: > > Awesome thanks Tom! > > On Apr 2, 3:33 pm, Tom Boutell <[email protected]> wrote: >> We've just released pkMediaPlugin. >> >> pkMediaPlugin provides five key services: >> >> * A front end user interface for browsing, uploading, and managing >> media (still images and video). >> * A front end user interface for selecting media and then >> returning the user to a specified URL within your application, passing >> on information about the selection the user made. >> * A simple, RESTful API that accepts a query for information about >> one or more media items and returns everything your application needs >> to know about them in an easily understood JSON response. >> * Efficient, 100% cached access to media that resides directly in >> the plugin (that is, all still images, and the thumbnails of videos). >> "100% cached" means that with the help of a few Apache directives >> these images will come directly from static files once they are first >> requested in a particular form. Note that this means you can request >> an image scaled and/or cropped to any size and then receive it >> instantly again in the future if you request the same size etc. >> * Video, still image and slideshow "slots" for use with our CMS >> solution for Symfony, pkContextCMSPlugin. These slot implementations >> are great demonstrations of the selection interface and the API. But >> not everyone will want them, and we didn't want to make this plugin >> dependent on the CMS plugin. So they are kept in the separate plugin >> pkMediaCMSSlotsPlugin. >> >> The media plugin is designed to be useful in three situations: >> >> * In the Symfony application in which the media plugin resides; >> * In other Symfony applications accessing the media plugin via its APIs, >> and >> * In web applications that aren't written in Symfony, or even in >> PHP. These can also use the APIs to take full advantage of the plugin. >> >> We've focused most of our attention thus far on the first two >> scenarios, but due to our use of REST and JSON there is no reason why >> you can't utilize the media plugin from a separate site written in >> Ruby on Rails, or even .NET for that matter. >> >> ** BY FAR the easiest way to check it out is to pick up the cmstest >> project from pkContextCMSPlugin via svn, which demonstrates both >> plugins. >> ** Much easier than dealing with dependencies by hand. Don't suffer! >> See the pkContextCMSPlugin manual for more information >> >> pkMediaPlugin has been released under the MIT license. >> >> For more information check out the README (aka full-blown manual) for >> pkMediaPlugin: >> >> http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/pkMediaPlugin >> >> -- >> Tom Boutell >> P'unk Avenue >> 215 755 1330 >> punkave.com >> window.punkave.com > > >
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