Link to PDF file

Tuesday 21 July 2009 2:49:13 am

HI, i am new to eZ Publsih....i want to have a link to PDF file. can any one help me how to do it in eZ publish.

For example in HTML we use <a href="xxx.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a>.

How should i add in eZ publish. This is very urgent can any one help me out.

Thanks
Srikanth

Tuesday 21 July 2009 6:13:14 am

I have uploaded the pdf file from Media section. I have a text link, when i click this link pdf file should open in new window.

Wednesday 22 July 2009 12:47:42 am

If you want to customize the anchor tag, you can use something like this:

<a target="_whatever" href="{$node.data_map.FILE.content.filepath|ezroot()}>dowbload</a>

Take care: the above code puts a direct link to the pdf, so access restrictions will not be checked by eZP.

You can examine the templates design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezbinaryfile.tpl and design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezbinaryfile_direct.tpl for more info

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Wednesday 22 July 2009 4:53:42 am

@ srikanth
Your code should match Gaetano's example, Please note you do not need to specify an actual path string this already provided in the 'filepath' variable. Basically just use this syntax. Note your $node name may be different.

<a target="_whatever" href="{$node.data_map.file.content.filepath|ezroot()}>dawn of the load</a>

<i>//kracker</i>

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Wednesday 22 July 2009 9:19:23 am

As stated above, if you know the node ID, you can fetch the node object like this:

{def $pdfnode = fetch( 'content', 'node', hash( 'node_id', PDFNODEID ) )}

where you change PDFNODEID with your value.

At this point the $pdfnode variable contains an object, of class ezcontentobjecttreenode.
You should really read up a little bit the doc page here: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/4_0/reference/objects/ezcontentobjecttreenode to learn what you can find inside it.

The name is f.e. {$pdfnode.name}, but you should remember to wash it to avoid breaking html, so you output it to html using {$pdfnode.name|wash()}

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Thursday 23 July 2009 3:01:10 am

I tryed the following code's but didn't work, please help

{* Fetching the Node with ID 110 *}

{def $pdfnode = fetch( 'content', 'node', hash( 'node_id', 110 ) )}

<a target="_blank" href="{$pdfnode.data_map.file.content.filepath|ezroot()}>{$pdfnode.name|wash()}</a>

After placing this code i got link with particular file name ex:- "special". this is the file name of node id 110. after i click this link it doesn't open any pdf file. it just link to same page where i am. in my case, i have placed this code in home page. link navigate to home page after clicking through pdf file.

I have tryed with one more type

{* Fetching the Node with ID 110 *}

{def $pdfnode = fetch( 'content', 'node', hash( 'node_id', 110 ) )}
{* Display your uploaded PDF file from the object *}

{attribute_view_gui attribute=$pdfnode.data_map.FILE}
<a href={'content/download/111/510/version/1/file/special.pdf' |ezroot()} class="menu">aaa</a>

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Basically i want to open a PDF file in new window as we do in HTML

<a href="special.pdf" target="_blank">special</a>

in what other way i can get the solution for this.

since this is very urgent can any one give me yr phone number or chat id so that i can get the solution more faster

Thursday 23 July 2009 8:47:29 am

Gaetano Giunta :- following is the output which i got from your code

Attribute Type Value
contentobject_attribute_id string 510
version string 1
filename string '5af143c02e239694cd37a771265dd005.pdf'
original_filename string 'f1b43bbe062c2885d61666cf692bd401.pdf'
mime_type string 'application/pdf'
download_count string 1
filesize integer 65536
filepath string 'var/plain_site/storage/original/application/5af143c02e239694cd37a771265dd005.pdf'
mime_type_category string 'application'
mime_type_part string 'pdf'

Thursday 23 July 2009 12:36:06 pm

Sorry, my fault.

{* Fetching the Node with ID 110 *}

{def $pdfnode = fetch( 'content', 'node', hash( 'node_id', 110 ) )}

<a target="_blank" href="{$pdfnode.data_map.file.content.filepath|ezroot('no')}>{$pdfnode.name|wash()}</a>

I forgot to set no in the ezroot template operator - it prevents the operator to create it's own quotation mark inside the html code.

<a href=""http://www.example.com"" target="_blank">...</a> looks realy strage in html.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Best regards

Max Keil

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Monday 27 July 2009 12:24:18 pm

Please refer to your other post: http://ez.no/developer/forum/general/horizontal_rulein_article

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Best regards

Max Keil

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eZ Publish Gold Partner - http://www.all2e.com
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