Richard Lynch said the following on 10/14/05 13:39:

So...

Do I:

A) Attempt to hack fckEditor to "allow" a PDF to get uploaded, and
then display a link to the PDF instead of alink to the fckEditor
output.

Good luck!


B) Give them a separate, possibly confusing, input to upload files to
tie in as links to the fckEditor area

If you can teach them how to use it this would work well. Perhaps you could have them upload the file and then on the page with fckEditor on it you could provide them with the URL to use for creating the link.

C) Dump fckEditor and only allow file upload, requiring them to
compose HTML pages in some external application

I'd stay away from this if they are already used to using fckEditor, especially if they can't figure out option B.

Has anybody faced this, and with VERY non-technical users had better
luck one way or another?

Which of these fit in best with PHP, and why?

I'm mostly used to educable users who can flex on functionality to get
what they want, but this is more a case of needing to make this WORK
for them their way.

There are a number of PDF conversion programs available for pretty much every platform. http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/PSto.html You could convert the file to jpeg or gif and then make the graphic available for using in fckeditor.

- Ben

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