Different urls based on file type

Hi Craig,

Here's a recipe from my CMSB Cookbook thecmsbcookbook.com might get you started.

USING IF STATEMENTS TO DEFINE OUTPUT BASED ON A FILE EXTENSION

If you need to publish specific code that’s based on the type of file that you’ve uploaded into an upload field, like a .swf flash file, here’s the trick. Just use:
<?php if ($upload['extension'] == 'swf'): ?>
or for the second through next to last if parameter in the list (the last one gets an <?php else: ?> instead of a <?php elseif...)
<?php elseif ($upload['extension'] == 'swf'): ?>
You can use this for non upload fields as well:
<?php if ($your_fieldRecord['extension'] == 'doc'): ?>
or
<?php elseif ($your_fieldRecord['extension'] == 'doc'): ?>
And , don’t forget that every if statement must be closed with an <?php endif ?>

Hope that helps,

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Jerry

it isnt Craig he is away it is Mark.

thanks for that i am not 100% but this what we have working now for all kinds of pdf, word, excel doc types that get opened.

<?php foreach ($downloadRecords as $record): ?>
<?php foreach ($record['upload'] as $index => $upload): ?>
<a href="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=http://www.domain.com<?php echo $upload['urlPath'] ?>&embedded=true" target="_blank">Download <?php echo htmlencode($upload['info1']) ?></a><br/><br/>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<?php if (!$downloadRecords): ?>
<?php endif ?>

what we need to do is also upload video files that will open in shadowbox using just the rel="shadowbox" in the url but only if it is a video and not anything else.

Hi Mark,

I'll try to find something more specific, but basically I'd use the approach above in the foreach loop to sniff out the extension and if it's a video extension, then execute the shadowbox video code.

You might also look at jwplayer if you can't get shadowbox to work

Hope that helps,

Jerry