It is the best but its not for beginners - it is a vast plugin the vastness makes it not so easy to use.
the windows errors there are not whats causing you the issue; I think you could fix the error you have but would then face that issue which at least from windows would not be (without extensive effort) be possible. - S On 12 May 2011 17:27, barricades <[email protected]> wrote: > Re errors on windows, ahh... wow.... that looks like a lot or errors > and I wouldn't have the faintest notion what any of all that means. > > Re the repo for mime types I haven't set this up, I didn't know I had > to and have only been learning from googling over the last few hours. > > I think my problem is that I just don't know enough. I've only used > the cake console a couple of times and never used consoles before. All > the tutorials for this Media Plugin seem to require you doing things > with the console which I haven't been able to make work at all. So I'm > in a quandary. > > it's been suggested that I use > > http://www.jamesfairhurst.co.uk/posts/view/uploading_files_and_images_with_cakephp > to upload files and then crop them as necessary using > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/Perkster/2008/04/12/image-resizer-crop > > But everywhere I've read it says Media Plugin is the best. I'm not > sure what I'll be loosing out on if I go this other way. Because I > can't get media working, I don't know what I'm missing :( > > Are there security issues or other drawbacks to doing this without the > media plugin > > On May 12, 4:30 pm, Sam Sherlock <[email protected]> wrote: > > on windows media plugin has issueshttps:// > github.com/davidpersson/media/issues/8 > > > > David has a separate repo for mime types did you also set this uphttps:// > github.com/davidpersson/mm > > - S > > > > On 12 May 2011 14:43, barricades <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I'm trying to use the above plugin by following the tutorial at > > > > >http://pixelcone.com/tutorial/ajax-file-upload-using-jquery-and-cakep. > .. > > > > > The tutorial itself is great because it goes into a bit of detail with > > > exactly what you're meant to put and where, which is great for a total > > > newb like myself > > > > > However, after following all the instructions now when I visit any > > > page in my application I'm getting the error: > > > Fatal error: Call to undefined method MIME_Type::config() in C:\xampp > > > \htdocs\raisin\app\plugins\media\config\core.php on line 97 > > > > > From what I've googled it looks like I'm meant to have some other > > > piece of software installed somewhere but I'm buggered if I can figure > > > what. > > > > > anyone any ideas? > > > > > -- > > > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > > >http://tv.cakephp.org > > > Check out the new CakePHP Questions sitehttp://ask.cakephp.organd help > > > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected] For more options, visit this > group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > > -- > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials > http://tv.cakephp.org > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help > others with their CakePHP related questions. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this group > at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
