Thanks would of had to code my own thing download function but now
with this Media view that is all covered, sweet.
On Jul 13, 11:39 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jörg,
>
> I'll show you the basics of how I just did this. In my case, the files
> are stored above webroot and there's a record for each in the
> database. The table was created like so:
>
> CREATE TABLE item_files
> (
> id INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
> created DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
> modified DATETIME DEFAULT NULL,
> item_id INT(10) NOT NULL,
> directory VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
> basename VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
> extension VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL,
> type VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL,
> size INT(11) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
>
> FOREIGN KEY (item_id) REFERENCES items (id) ON DELETE CASCADE
> )
> ENGINE=MyISAM;
>
> First, create a directory inside /app. Call it 'files' or something
> and put your PDFs in it. These are now inaccessible from the browser.
> Don't confuse this with /app/webroot/files, which is accessible.
>
> In your controller, create a download() method. I'm leaving out a lot
> of stuff in my own; this is just the basics. This action uses the
> MediaView, which is perfect for serving files that are above webroot.
>
> public function download($item_file_id)
> {
> // you'll want to check the login status here ...
>
> $result = $this->ItemFile->find(
> 'first',
> array(
> 'conditions' => array('ItemFile.id' => $item_file_id),
> 'fields' => array('*'),
> 'contain' => array(
> 'Item' => array(
> 'fields' => array('*')
> )
> )
> )
> );
>
> Configure::write('debug', 0);
> $this->view = 'Media';
>
> /* MediaView is really irritating
> */
> $name = substr(
> $result['ItemFile']['basename'],
> 0,
> -(strlen($result['ItemFile']['extension']))
> );
>
> $params = array(
> 'id' => $result['ItemFile']['basename'],
> 'name' => $name,
> 'download' => true,
> 'extension' => $result['ItemFile']['extension'],
> 'path' => APP.$result['ItemFile']['directory'].DS,
> 'mimeType' => array($result['ItemFile']['type'])
> );
> $this->set($params);
>
> }
>
> That's about it. Have a look in cake/libs/view/media.php to see how
> MediaView works.
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:22 AM, joergpb<joer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello CakePhp Group!
>
> > My name ist Jörg, form Berlin/Germany.
>
> > I am quite new to Cake. My problem is that I need a downloadarea where
> > the user can only download pdfs ( or any files) from the filesystem
> > after he logged in. So the URL to the download has to be dynamic.
>
> > Any idea how I may get this done with cake?
>
> > Thanks a lot !
>
> > Jörg
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