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• Posted in Themes and Public Display
• Started 1 year ago by ebellempire
• 4 posts by 2 users
• Latest reply from ebellempire

1. 

   ebellempire Posted 1 year ago

   Hi,

   I need to return the archival file URLs (as in, http://example.com/archive/files/song.mp3) for audio files in certain item records but cannot seem to get to them. display_files_for_item() returns all kinds of extra info for the media player. I've tried a few other functions as well, but no luck so far.

   Thanks,

   Erin

   (PS: working on integrating an A/V Flash wrapper into a new theme)

2. 

   Jeremy Boggs (Moderator) Posted 1 year ago

   Hi Erin,

   You can use the file_display_uri function to get the uri for a specific file object, assuming you have the file object somehow already. The following example would get all the files available on the view (items/show.php in this case) as an array, then echo the uri for each of those.

   <?php
   $files = get_files_for_loop();
   foreach ($files as $file) {
       echo file_display_uri($file);
   }
   ?>

   You can also just pass any $file object, using get_files.

   These are functions we should document on our Theme API page, so I'll add a to-do to get this done.

   Hope this helps, and would love to see that Flash wrapper when you're done!

3. 

   ebellempire Posted 1 year ago

   Thanks Jeremy,

   I tried it and got this error:
   Invalid argument supplied for foreach()...

   Here's the code I'm using for now, in which I first test for an image to use with lightbox and then test for the Sound item type (eventually, I will probably use mime types, but this should do the job in the meantime) for use with the flash wrapper and then if none of the above, I use the standard display_files_for_item()...

   <?php
   		    if (item_has_thumbnail())
   					{
   					echo '<p><em>Click the Image for Full Size</em></p>';
   					echo display_files_for_item(array('linkAttributes'=>array('rel'=>'lightbox[gallery]')));
   										}
   			elseif (item_has_type('Sound'))
   					{
   			echo '<script type="text/javascript">AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_1", {soundFile:"';
   				$files = get_files_for_loop();
   				foreach ($files as $file) {
   					echo file_display_uri($file);
   				}
   			echo'"});';
   			echo '</script>';
   					}
   			else
   				{
   				echo display_files_for_item();
   				}
   			?>

4. 

   ebellempire Posted 1 year ago

   Nevermind.

   Looks like this works (though I switched to a different media player that doesn't require the full absolute path)

   foreach ($item->Files as $file) {
   echo file_download_uri($file);}

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