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Hello,

Thanks for this work, it exactly what I needed!

Just one thing, this code can't display validation error messages (messages displayed close of fields)

To display error messages :
# in the controller :
remove upload function, and modify index() with this one

Controller Class:

<?php 
    function index() {
        if (!empty($this->data)) {
            // Validate and move the file
            if($this->Image->upload($this->data)) {
                $this->Session->setFlash('The image was successfully uploaded.');
            } else {
                $this->Session->setFlash('There was an error with the uploaded file');
            }
        }
    
        $this->set(
            'images',
            $this->Image->readFolder('your_upload_folder')
        );
    }
?>
# in the view
Set the action to index an remplace $form->file, by $form->input and specify type to file :

View Template:


<?php
echo $form->create('Image',array('type' => 'file', 'url' => array('action' => 'index')));
echo $form->input('image', array('label' =>___('Upload image')." :", 'type' => 'file'));
echo $form->end('Upload');
?>


With this code you will be able to dissociate extention validation to the custom file validation and add other validation rules if needed :

Model Class:

<?php 
<?php
    var $validate = array(
        'image' => array(
            'extension' => array('rule' => array( 'extension', array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png')),
                'message' => 'Invalid file or extention (should be jpg, jpeg, png or gif'
            ),
            'validFile' => array('rule' => array('validFile', true), 'message' => 'Invalid file'))
        )
    );


        function validFile($check, $required = true) {
        // Remove first level of Array
        $_check = array_shift($check);

        // No file uploaded.
        if(($_check['size'] == 0) && $required) {
            return false;
        }

        // Check for Basic PHP file errors.
        if($_check['error']) {
            return false;
        }

        // Use PHPs own file validation method.
        if(!is_uploaded_file($_check['tmp_name'])) {
            return false;
        }

        // Valid extension
        return true;
    }
?>
?>

Hi,

the lack of an imagebrowser was basically the only thing preventing me from using TinyMCE over FCKEditor. Now that this article has been published, I see no reason not to go for TinyMCE.

However, this article is written with the assumption of using the TinyMCE Element. I however, have used the TinyMCE helper, explained at http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/tinymce-helper-1
I was trying to figure out how to add the image upload functionality to the helper, and it turned out to be quite simple. I'll describe the implementation below, assuming you have the helper up and running.

First of all, copy the whole code provided at step 5 from this main article. Then, in every view you want the tinymce helper applied on textareas, insert the element into your view page

<?php echo $this->element('your_element_name'); ?>
Now, this will add the tinymce editor to all the textareas in your view. I can imagine that that isn't supposed to happen in most cases...

This is caused by a parameter in the step 5 code. In the javascript TinyMCE.init() function, there is a parameter called mode, which can have the following 4 values: textareas, specific_textareas, exact and none. I'm not going to go too deep into this, it basically determines which textfields are affected by the javascript code.

I haven't managed to fix this problem with the mode parameter, but I've found a workaround just as easy (or even easier). The "problem" is caused by the FormHelper::input method. This method generates an input field based on the datatype of the corresponding field in the database. TEXT, CHAR, and VARCHAR types will cause the formhelper to generate a textarea. This can be manipulated by determing the input type at the formhelper. It just involves adding a simple extra parameter, the 'type' parameter.

So, to keep it simple:
<?php echo $form->input('title', array('type' => 'text')); ?> will actually generate an input field instead of a textarea, whatever the database data type is. Thus, no editor will be applied to these kind of fields, only to textareas. Maybe not the right workaround, but certainly the easiest...