This option enables you to have an external list of media files. This list of media files can be generated by a server side page and then inserted into the media dialog window of TinyMCE. The media files can be from an internal site images or external URLs.
Change in 3.0: The way that relative URLs are calculated has changed since the 2.x version - you may want to use absolute URLs for this setting.
Example of usage of the external_media_list_url option:
tinyMCE.init({
...
external_media_list_url : "myexternallist.js"
});
Note: If utilizing the document_base_url option, the path to your file is relative from that base. If not set, your path is relative from the file containing the editor call.
Example of a external media list file: (myexternallist.js)
var tinyMCEMediaList = new Array(
// Name, URL
["Logo 1", "logo.swf"],
["Logo 2 Over", "logo_over.fla"]
);
Example of a PHP-generated media list file
<?php // this must be the very first line in your PHP file!
// You can't simply echo everything right away because we need to set some headers first!
$output = ''; // Here we buffer the JavaScript code we want to send to the browser.
$delimiter = "n"; // for eye candy... code gets new lines
$output .= 'var tinyMCEImageList = new Array(';
$directory = "../../media"; // Use your correct (relative!) path here
$TinyMceMediaExts =array( // allowed extensions
'avi' => '1','mpg' => '1','mov' => '1','fla' => '1','swf' => '1'
);
// Since TinyMCE3.x you need absolute image paths in the list...
$abspath = preg_replace('~^/?(.*)/[^/]+$~', '/$1', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
if (is_dir($directory)) {
$direc = opendir($directory);
while ($file = readdir($direc)) {
if (!preg_match('~^.~', $file)) { // no hidden files / directories here...
if (is_file("$directory/$file")) {
// We got ourselves a file! Make an array entry:
preg_match('/\.([^.]+)$/',$file,$match);
if($TinyMceMediaExts[@$match[1]]){
$output .= $delimiter
. '["'
. utf8_encode($file)
. '", "'
. utf8_encode("$abspath/$directory/$file")
. '"],';
}
}
}
}
$output = substr($output, 0, -1); // remove last comma from array item list (breaks some browsers)
$output .= $delimiter;
closedir($direc);
}
// Finish code: end of array definition. Now we have the JavaScript code ready!
$output .= ');';
// Make output a real JavaScript file!
header('Content-type: text/javascript'); // browser will now recognize the file as a valid JS file
// prevent browser from caching
header('pragma: no-cache');
header('expires: 0'); // i.e. contents have already expired
// Now we can send data to the browser because all headers have been set!
echo $output;
?>
Put this PHP code into your PHP file (the one you set as resource in the external_media_list_url option) and your browser should receive a valid JavaScript file (which of course hasn't got the typical ".js" file extension).
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