Is it possible to display icons next to files?

wet · 2006-04-03 04:24:11

Paths in style sheets are relative to the style sheet itself (/dev2/textpattern/ it that case).

Last edited by wet (2006-04-03 04:25:52)

sekhu · 2006-04-03 13:58:44

thanks alot for your help guys it seems to be working now,

Cheers

Last edited by sekhu (2006-04-03 14:04:48)

squaredeye · 2006-04-03 23:46:32

Wet,
You are the man of the hour!
That’s a great technique.

I have often assigned the file a category and then played with the form to read:
<code>
<li class=”<txp:file_download_category />”>some text</li>
</code>

along with :

<code>
li.pdf { background: url(pdf.jpg) no-repeat 0 50%; }
li.mp3 { background: url(mp3.jpg) no-repeat 0 50%; }
li.doc { background: url(doc.jpg) no-repeat 0 50%; }
</code>

Your example is far more adaptable!
Consider it bookmarked!

nardo · 2006-04-04 00:48:15

there’s also this plugin: mrz_file_preview … but wet’s solution may be more efficient

alannie · 2006-04-05 22:10:48

wet wrote:

<code><p class="
<txp:php> 
$fn = file_download_name();      # read download filename
$ext = explode('.', $fn);     # split at dot
$ext = $ext[1];      # assume second part is extension, a file type
echo $ext.'-icon">'      # build class name, e.g. "foo-icon"
</txp:php>
<txp:file_download_name /></p></code>

Wet, thanks for the great suggestion! I needed exactly the file-type icon setup
 that you described. I'm having a bit of trouble with the code above, though. 
When I put it in, this error message gets generated in the HTML:

<p class="
<pre>tag_error <b>&lt;txp:php&gt;</b> -> <b> Warning: Missing argument 1 for file_download_name(), called in [..]: eval()'d code on line 2 and defined  on line 2081</b></pre>doc-icon">
Analysis Request Form.doc</p>

Any ideas? (sorry for the formatting of this post, it was the only way I could 
get both !@#$ snippets of code to show up).

wet · 2006-04-06 04:37:54

I have to admit that I wrote this code sequence out of my head, without reality check. The correct way of invoking tag handlers has to include the attribute array, even if it is empty, and my ommision of that is causing the error messge you are experiencing now.

So please use this amended sequence instead of the one I originally posted above. It also cares for filenames with more than one dot (e.g. “podcast-2006.10.01.mp3”) and uses the part after the last dot to designate the file type:

<p class="
<txp:php> 
$fn = file_download_name( array () ); 
$ext = explode('.', $fn); 
$ext = $ext[ count($ext) - 1 ];
echo $ext.'-icon">';
</txp:php><txp:file_download_name /></p>

(The original post is correct now for the sake of posterity)

HTH,

Robert

alannie · 2006-04-06 15:54:05

Robert, that works great! Just one minor correction to the CSS: <code>background-image</code> should be <code>background</code>. Again, thanks for the great technique.

wet · 2006-04-06 17:07:08

Ah, yes. Corrected. I should stop dreamweaving my style sheets… But, then again I’m just too lazy (I think I suffer from “programmer’s disease”).

alannie · 2006-06-19 19:30:18

Hi Robert, I am wondering if the PHP code you provided is compatible with PHP 4.3.10? I had it working on my machine, but when I uploaded it to the web host, it stopped working and I can’t figure out why. Or, does it have to do with register globals being off?

wet · 2006-06-19 20:50:29

I really haven’t got a clue. All used functions (i.e. explode) are part of PHP 3 and better, I cannot see any globals, so it must work. Please double-check spelling, presence of graphic files in correct directories and all the other common “brain 2.0 beta” mistakes.

alannie · 2006-06-19 21:04:47

Please double-check spelling, presence of graphic files in correct directories and all the other common “brain 2.0 beta” mistakes.

Thanks, I looked at the HTML output and none of the HTML is getting generated by the PHP. So I know it is not a misplaced image issue. I also had exactly the same code working successfully on another server, so that rules out any misspellings. I’m not sure what else to check. :/

wet · 2006-06-19 21:34:30

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