I’m glad that it has come in useful. Thanks for your comments, I’ll try and follow them up – about the UploadVariant.

I use the behaviours on a couple of sites, but to tell the truth I haven’t done any new work with Cake for over a year now.

Cheers

I have gotten it to work on upload and delete. The polymorphic deletion was not working at all. At least not for the UploadVariant. So I did a custom deletion process.

I would like to suggest that in the je_meio_upload.php behavior that at the for loop of the creation of the UploadVariant (line 495-500?) that you do not add entries for any variant named ‘normal’. This is something that meio_upload uses to overwrite the existing upload to a modified image size as per your options. There is not a normal variant actually created so there is no need to add a entry to the table for it.

how can display the image?

$html->image($upload['Upload']['dir'].$upload['Upload']['filename']); ??????

Yeah, you could do that, I wouldn’t say there is a real right or wrong way though. I’ve attached a couple of code fragments as to how I use it. Unfortunately though since I wrote this, I’ve done very little Cake based stuff (new jobs etc.) although I am doing some more soon so want to have another look at this all.

The code fragments are taken from the admin section of my CMS

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$contain = array(
			'UploadVariant'
		);
 
 
 
 
 
		$this->paginate = array(
							'Upload'=>array(
											'limit' => 20,
											'contain' => array('UploadVariant.variant = "small"'),
											'order' => array('Upload.id' => 'DESC')
							)
		); 
 
		$this->data = $this->paginate($conditions);

Helper:
This just takes creates a thumbnail and opens a full size version.

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<?php
 
class UploadHelper extends AppHelper {
 
	var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
 
	var $uploadModel = 'Upload';
	var $uploadModelVariant = 'UploadVariant';
 
	public function showThumb(&$data, &$sub_data = null, $rel = null){
 
		$str = '';
 
		$dir = WWW_ROOT . $this->getRealDir($data['dir']);
		$web_dir = '/' . $this->getWebDir($data['dir']);
 
 
 
		if(file_exists($dir . DS . $data['filename'])) {
 
 
 
 
			if($data['quick_type'] == 'image'){
 
 
				if(!empty($sub_data['filename'])){
 
 
 
					if(file_exists($dir . DS . $sub_data['filename'])){
 
						$image = $this->Html->image($web_dir . '/' . $sub_data['filename'], array('alt' => '', 'height' => $sub_data['height'], 'height' => $sub_data['height']));
 
						$str .= $this->Html->link($image, $web_dir . '/' . $data['filename'],array('class' => 'thickbox', 'rel' => $rel), false, false);
 
					} else {
 
 
 
					}
				} else {
 
 
				}
 
			} else {
				$str .= $this->Html->link($data['filename'], $web_dir. DS . $data['filename'],array('target' => '_blank'), false, false);
			}
 
		} else {
 
			$str = 'Missing File';
 
		}
 
 
		return $this->output($str);
 
	}
 
	protected function getRealDir($dir){
		$dir = r('\\', DS, $dir);
		$dir = r('/', DS, $dir);
		return $dir;
	}
 
	protected function getWebDir($dir){
		$dir = r('\\', '/', $dir);
		return $dir;
	}
 
 
 
}
 
?>

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echo $upload->showThumb($var['Upload'], $var['UploadVariant'][0]);

Thinking about it, you would usually know exactly what variant you are after so between the containable behaviour to filter the data and then possibly some use of array_key_exists() in the view you should be able to end up with some very neat code.

Hope this helps.

John

$html->image(‘thumb.’.$product['Upload'][0]['filename']);

I’ll check that out right away and fix it.