FileDownload R with &plugins

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Glyn Reply #1, 13 years, 2 months ago

I am attempting to use the FileDownload R with my a snippet.

I am calling the snippet via the FileDownload as follows:

[[!FileDownload?
	&getDir=`../PDF/[[parentAlias?]]/[[*alias]]/`
	&extShown=`pdf`
	&tplFile=`pdfFileRowTPL`
	&tplWrapper=``
	&plugins=`[
		{	"name":"waterMarkPDF"
			,"event":"BeforeFileDownload"
		}]`
]]

The waterMarkPDF snippet which I call does not seem to be working. waterMarkPDF is a call to SetAsigns setapdf-stamper php.

My hope is that when the user clicks on a pdf link, FileDownload parses to waterMarkPDF the pdf file path, then places a watermark on the pdf (using the users loggedin username). The download then begins with a custom watermaked pdf.

Within my waterMarkPDF snippet can I get the file link via:

$linktofile = $plugin.getProperties('filePath');

and the current user name via:

$currentUser = $modx->getLoginUserName();

Am I asking too much of FileDownload? Is there a better method that I could use for this?

Is it possible to treat the download file as an object that then can be parsed through waterMarkPDF and then downloaded?

MODX Version: Revolution 2.2.8
PHP Version: 5.3.26
Database (MySQL, SQL Server, etc) Version: 5.1.70
Additional Server Info: Apache
Installed MODX Add-ons: FileDownload R 1.1.6

This question has been answered by glynszasz. See the first response.

[ed. note: glynszasz last edited this post 13 years, 2 months ago.]

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goldsky Reply #2, 13 years, 2 months ago

Any error?

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Glyn Reply #3, 13 years, 2 months ago

Quote from: goldsky at Jul 14, 2013, 10:43 AM

Any error?

No error that I can find. Nothing seems to come up within the MODX Error Report menu item or the error_log file. Perhaps there is a debug option within DownloadR that I can enable to see what is going on.

A thought I had that I will try a bit later today is to attempt to execute watermarkpdf within each row &tplFile and ignore the &plugins part.

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Glyn Reply #4, 13 years, 2 months ago

The thought I had worked by the following. Within my &tplFile chunk I put:

<li><a href="water.php?path=[[+fd.url]]" target="_blank">[[+fd.filename]]</a></li>

where water.php is my script. This gets me around the problem of using the &plugins.

Glyn Szasz
Sydney, Australia

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If you are a Sydney based MODX developer would love to hear from you. Please contact me.

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