Hi,

I think Couch CMS is a fantastic package and very easy to work with but I have a problem when trying to upload and link to PowerPoint (.pptx) or Word template (.dot or .dotx) files.

If I browse to the file on my desktop and select upload there is a short pause and then I get a message saying Invalid File. The file is only small and all other file types seem to work fine.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Marcus

[KK]

Hello and welcome Marcus
I am glad you liked Couch.

As for the problem you mentioned -
please find the following file in your 'couch' installation folder:
/includes/fileuploader/config.php

Find the following line in the file and add the extensions of the type of files you want to upload:

$Config['AllowedExtensions']['File'] = array('7z', 'aiff', 'asf', 'avi', 'bmp', 'csv', 'doc', 'fla', 'flv', 'gif', 'gz', 'gzip', 'jpeg', 'jpg', 'mid', 'mov', 'mp3', 'mp4', 'mpc', 'mpeg', 'mpg', 'ods', 'odt', 'pdf', 'png', 'ppt', 'pxd', 'qt', 'ram', 'rar', 'rm', 'rmi', 'rmvb', 'rtf', 'sdc', 'sitd', 'swf', 'sxc', 'sxw', 'tar', 'tgz', 'tif', 'tiff', 'txt', 'vsd', 'wav', 'wma', 'wmv', 'xls', 'xml', 'zip') ;

Do take care to use the proper PHP syntax.
Hope this helps.

Hi,

Apologies for the delayed reply.

Worked perfectly - many thanks for your help!

I must be missing something here...

Fairly new to Couch but programming for years in PHP, java, jquery etc...

but I have looked everywhere to find out how I can insert a PDF file into an editable region just like I browse and insert an image or flash file.

Can someone help me find my way here?

I have a client who wants to insert PDF flyers in spots of the site to announce events and sales etc...

any help is much appreciated!
john

[KK]

Hi John,

There are two ways you could allow your client to insert a PDF (or any other file) in a webpage -
1. Use editable region of type 'file' (http://www.couchcms.com/docs/tags-refer ... /file.html)
2. Insert directly in contents of CKEditor (editable region of type 'richtext').

I think probably you meant to ask about the second method.
This is how we do it -
1. Select the text in CKEditor that will link to the PDF file (marked as 1 in image below)

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2. Click the 'Link' button (marked as 2 in image above)
3. In the dialog box that opens up, click 'Browse Server'

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The regular Couch' file explorer will open up allowing to upload/select files.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for getting back to me so fast!

I will try this...
and get back to you if I need anything else.

Thanks again!
john

Hello,

before starting a new thread I thought my request might fit in here and may get some attention.

I implemented CouchCMS to a website and built a section that has a HTML5 background video running. There's the possibility to upload a mp4 file and for fallbacks a webm file. The mp4 upload works fine, but when I try to upload a webm file CouchCMS fires an alert that says:

videoname.webm: Denied file extension.

I already added the extension to the fileuploader/config.php but still get the same error message.

What did I miss here?

[KK]

@carachas, the problem persists because now Couch uses a different file-manager (KCFinder) and so it is a different config file that would need to be modified.

Please see viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8405&p=26909#p26909
That post has a config file attached. Please use it to replace the existing 'couch\includes\kcfinder\config.php' file of your installation and you should now be able to upload webm files.

Hope this helps.