# Page\_attachments experience **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 2, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826 "2008-01-02T22:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/1 "2008-01-02T22:23:08Z")
I’m curious how well page\_attachments has worked for others. I’m going to give it a try in my test environment, but wondering how it’s worked for end users who may or may not be computer savvy (from a programmer’s perspective). Are there any other options, aside from writing my own extension, currently available to make it easy for end users to add images to the pages they create? Thank you for any comments! Bill ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/2 "2008-01-02T22:28:59Z")
I’m pretty happy with page\_attachments. The biggest headache for me was installing RMagick or image\_science on my Mac dev machine (I don’t know why this is still such a pain in the a$$!). It’s running great on my Ubuntu Server though. Usability-wise, the thumbnails it adds to the page admin interface are really good. As are the \ tags. My only complaint is that styles seem just a little bit off from the rest of the UI, but all things considered, that’s not too bad. I recommend you use it. For what it sounds like you want to do, it’s perfect. -Andrew ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/3 "2008-01-03T17:19:56Z")
Andrew O’Brien wrote: > I recommend you use it. For what it sounds like you want to do, it’s perfect. > > -Andrew It also works fine for me. No problems yet! Cheers, Mohit. 1/4/2008 | 12:18 AM. ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/4 "2008-01-03T21:40:45Z")
I think this is a top notch extension. However I will try to patch it so the admin view can display the ‘public’ url for easy copy pasting with wysiwyg editors. P. On Jan 3, 2008 5:18 PM, Mohit S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > Mohit. > 1/4/2008 | 12:18 AM. > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – met vriendelijke groet, Peter B. ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/5 "2008-01-04T04:26:19Z")
Saji N. Hameed wrote: > saji That may be true - I’m managing my site by myself and I’m not a lay person in that sense. But, in a technical sense, it works fine. Cheers, Mohit. 1/4/2008 | 11:25 AM. ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/6 "2008-01-04T09:05:42Z")
> Sorry, but not very easy to use for the lay person client who may have no > idea > about radius tags. > > saji > > True, that’s why I will try to patch it with some easy copy/paste URL > thingy. (like photobucket and the like) ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/7 "2008-01-04T01:33:21Z")
- Mohit S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) [2008-01-04 00:18:40 +0800]: > Andrew O’Brien wrote: > > > I’m pretty happy with page\_attachments. The biggest headache for me > > was installing RMagick or image\_science on my Mac dev machine (I don’t > > know why this is still such a pain in the a$$!). It’s running great > > ---------snip > > It also works fine for me. No problems yet! > > Cheers, > Mohit. > 1/4/2008 | 12:18 AM. Sorry, but not very easy to use for the lay person client who may have no idea about radius tags. saji > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – Saji N. Hameed APEC Climate Center +82 51 668 7470 National Pension Corporation Busan Building 12F Yeonsan 2-dong, Yeonje-gu, BUSAN 611705 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid KOREA ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/8 "2008-01-08T20:34:13Z")
On Jan 7, 2008 4:16 PM, J Aaron F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > One way I use the page\_attachements extension is to create a single > page under Root called Assets and then attach “global” files to this > page. I can then reference them directly by URL, but it would be nice > to have a tag that allowed for referencing of attachments of other > pages. I did a quick hack patch to do something like this. BUt I discovered page\_attachment would also pick up images from parent pages. So adding all the images to the home page is also an option. $ diff -u page\_attachment\_tags.rb.orig page\_attachment\_tags.rb — page\_attachment\_tags.rb.orig 2007-12-26 21:49:41.234538413 +1300 +++ page\_attachment\_tags.rb 2007-12-26 22:20:39.262566335 +1300 @@ -86,6 +86,23 @@ attributes = tag.attr.inject([]){ |a,(k,v)| a \<\< %{#{k}=“#{v}”} }.join(" “).strip %{\} end + - desc %{ - Test - - _Usage_: - - ``` ` - } - tag “attachment:global” do |tag| - page = tag.locals.page - attachment = PageAttachment.find\_by\_filename(tag.attr[‘name’]) - size = tag.attr[‘size’] || nil - raise TagError, “attachment is not an image.” unless attachment.content\_type.strip =~ /^image// - filename = attachment.public\_filename(size) rescue “” - attributes = tag.attr.inject([]){ |a,(k,v)| a \<\< %{#{k}=“#{v}”} }.join(" ").strip - %{\} - end ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/9 "2008-01-07T04:17:25Z")
“Peter B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes: > > Sorry, but not very easy to use for the lay person client who may have no > > idea > > about radius tags. > > > > saji > > > > True, that’s why I will try to patch it with some easy copy/paste URL > > thingy. (like photobucket and the like) One way I use the page\_attachements extension is to create a single page under Root called Assets and then attach “global” files to this page. I can then reference them directly by URL, but it would be nice to have a tag that allowed for referencing of attachments of other pages. – J Aaron F. [jadetower.com](http://jadetower.com) [US] +1 724-964-4515 馮傑仁 [cubiclemuses.com](http://cubiclemuses.com) [HK] +852 8123-7905 ---
**Author:** ![bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@bburcham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/bburcham)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/page-attachments-experience/124826/10 "2008-01-12T20:24:13Z")
J Aaron F. wrote: > > > > > > > thingy. (like photobucket and the like) > > One way I use the page\_attachements extension is to create a single > page under Root called Assets and then attach “global” files to this > page. I can then reference them directly by URL, but it would be nice > to have a tag that allowed for referencing of attachments of other > pages. Umm… [1] I can’t try it out right now, but I remember reading that page\_attachments searches up the tree (of parents) to find if something matches the name. [2] I can’t try it right now, but Radiant/ Radius allow you to do a find\_by\_url for a page and that switches the Radius context to the page that you just found. After that, using page\_attachments tags should mean that they search local to the page you just found. That would allow you to reference the attachment of the other page. Like I said, I can’t try these out right now, so I’m not sure if they work. Sean, of course, could confirm 😃 Cheers, Mohit. 1/13/2008 | 3:23 AM.