Re: Javascript libraries with images/css inside Cake Plugins

Exactly. I know the paths are righ, because the css files and js libs
do get loaded, and if I place them under the app's /webroot/ folder,
so do the images/other files they include. Just not when they're
inside a plugin's vendors folder (the same problem occurs with
javascript in the normal vendors folder by the way, but that has a
clear cause if you look at the vendors.php file in the webroot/js
folder).

So it pretty much comes down to this: when for instance I place a file
named "upload.swf" inside the /plugins/myplugin/vendors/js/ I would
like to be able to browse to it via url/myplugin/js/upload.swf, this
doesn't work though. And indeed it's not preferable to change the file
locations inside a 3rd party lib, but for swf-files the _only_
solution is moving it to the webroot folder, because it simply gets
ignored from anywhere inside the plugin's vendors folder.

Too bad you never found a good solution..

On Oct 2, 2:28 pm, womble <l.e.ad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure its not the 'prefacing' etc.  But I may be wrong.
>
> I basically had the same problem with ext-js.  I didn't ever find a
> good solution.  But there has to be somewhere to change the Cake
> settings.  My problem was that the library css was referencing
> relative urls of images, but the images were not accessible unless
> they were located under the plugin_name/img  folder.  And if I put the
> whole library under the plugin_name/js folder the css and images were
> not accessible.
>
> If it were all my own code it wouldn't be an issue, but as they're 3rd
> party libraries its preferable not to change paths in the css etc.
>
> On Oct 1, 2:03 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How are you linking the css files? You should only need to preface the
> > file name with 'plugin_name/css/', eg.
> > $html->css('/plugin_name/css/css_filename');
>
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Elte Hupkes <ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to develop a small backend cms-plugin, which contains some
> > > Javascript libraries like jQuery, jQuery-ui and TinyMCE. Doing this I
> > > stumbled upon a problem I cannot seem to solve in a good way.
> > > jQuery-ui and TinyMCE come bundled with themes, consisting of images
> > > and css files. CakePHP doesn't seem to serve any other file than *.js
> > > from the vendors/js folder inside my plugin though (as opposed to
> > > everything in the /webroot/ folder), forcing me to create additional
> > > folders for images and css in both the /img/ and /css/ folders. For
> > > jquery-ui this is inconvenient, for TinyMCE it's a giant pain, and for
> > > libraries like SwfUploader (or Uploadify in my case), this is simply
> > > impossible because the swf-files don't get served from any of the
> > > three (img, css, js) folders inside myplugin/webroot/.
>
> > > So how do I bundle these libraries with my plugin without breaking
> > > them? Is it even possible?
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