Posted by Ben on 10/15/05 00:12

Richard Lynch said the following on 10/14/05 13:39:

> So...
>
> Do I:
>
> A) Attempt to hack fckEditor to "allow" a PDF to get uploaded, and
> then display a link to the PDF instead of alink to the fckEditor
> output.

Good luck!


> B) Give them a separate, possibly confusing, input to upload files to
> tie in as links to the fckEditor area

If you can teach them how to use it this would work well. Perhaps you
could have them upload the file and then on the page with fckEditor on
it you could provide them with the URL to use for creating the link.

> C) Dump fckEditor and only allow file upload, requiring them to
> compose HTML pages in some external application

I'd stay away from this if they are already used to using fckEditor,
especially if they can't figure out option B.

> Has anybody faced this, and with VERY non-technical users had better
> luck one way or another?
>
> Which of these fit in best with PHP, and why?
>
> I'm mostly used to educable users who can flex on functionality to get
> what they want, but this is more a case of needing to make this WORK
> for them their way.

There are a number of PDF conversion programs available for pretty much
every platform. http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/PSto.html You could
convert the file to jpeg or gif and then make the graphic available for
using in fckeditor.

- Ben

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