Using IMCE CCK Image for file attachment (other than images)

I helped myself with adding some code into my template.php

function phptemplate_imceimage_formatter_default($element) {
	$item = $element['#item'];
	$field = $element['#field_name'];
	$delta = $element['#delta'];
	$id = "imceimage-". $field ."-". $delta;

	return my_theme_imceimage_image($item['imceimage_path'],$item['imceimage_width'],$item['imceimage_height'],$item['imceimage_alt'],$id);
}

function my_theme_imceimage_image($s, $w='', $h='', $a='', $id='') {
	$add = "";
	if(stristr($s, '.pdf')){
		$sArr = split('/', $s);
		$pdfName =$sArr[sizeof($sArr) -1]; 
		$add = '<a href="'. $s . '" >' . $pdfName . '</a>';
		$s = "/xyz/pdf-icon.jpg";
		
	}
	$s = 'src="'. $s .'" ';
	$a = 'alt="'. $a .'" ';
	$id = !empty($id)? 'id="'. $id .'" ':'';
	$w = !empty($w)? 'width="'. $w .'" ':'';
	$h = !empty($h)? 'height="'. $h .'" ':'';
	return '<img '. $s . $a . $w . $h . $id .'/>' . $add;
}

function phptemplate_imceimage($element) {
	if(stristr($element['#default_value']['imceimage_path'], '.pdf')){
//		$pdfIcon = "/xyz/pdf-icon.jpg";
//		$element['#children'] = str_replace($element['#default_value']['imceimage_path'], $pdfIcon, $element['#children']);
// this attempt caused problems ...
	}
	$add = "<br>" . $element['#default_value']['imceimage_path'] ;
	return $element['#children'] .$add ;
}

I have a client that needs this functionality as well. I am working on a patch and will post it here in the next few days.

+1

This, in my view, would be a much more seamless upload solution than some of the others I have seen. I look forward to the patch, @pmckibben.

Patch coming soon. I apologize for the delay--crazy work commitments!

This is a patch for imceimage 6.x-1.0-beta2. It adds a new widget for "generic file" that allows you to attach any file. The widget for attaching an image is unchanged, other than some minor UI improvements.

Sorry this took so long.

Is it likely to have this rolled into the dev release? I get a lot of people requesting this as well and it certainly seems handy to have this in the module by default.

I'm sure there are some other issues I'm not thinking of, but I'm sleep deprived, at the moment.

This is great!

@visualnotion: I'm not the maintainer of this module, but I have changed the status of this issue to "needs review" in hopes that maybe it will get some attention from the maintainer.

pmckibben: I applied this patch and when I save the node it has a place for the file but no link or name etc. Any ideas?

Also any idea on how to make this work with the forum comments?

I forgot that I never created a formatter to generate default output, so I apologize. The way I'm using this for my client, it's highly customized and uses a special node template. I'll see if I can find some time in the next week to add a default formatter.

For now, you can either create a custom theme template for your node, e.g. node-[mynodetype].tpl.php, or use the Content Template (http://drupal.org/project/contemplate) module to customize the node's output.

For your IMCE field, pretending your field name is "imce_file", you use:

$node->field_imce_file[0]['imceimage_path'] 

The above gives you the file path.

I don't use forums, so I'm afraid I can't help you with forum comments. Can you even use CCK with comments? I don't think you can, but I may be wrong. However, if you're using a rich text editor, some rich text editors provide a link tool that allow you to use IMCE to link to a file. I am using the WYSIWYG API (http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg) with fckeditor, and if you have the WYSIWYG IMCE bridge module (http://drupal.org/project/imce_wysiwyg), the link tool will allow you to use IMCE to browse/upload and link to a file. Would that serve your purpose?

Nice work on that patch. It definitely should be integrated into the plugin. I hope.

sorry - imceimage is just meant for images - hence the name. I agree the same framework can be extended to other file types and thank you for the patch. I will consider in the longer term - moving to a "imce cck file" module - to handle any type of file - but not for now.