Questions tagged [media-manager]

Media Manager is the Joomla Built-in tool to upload, manage and delete files and images in Joomla.

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Getting server errors when trying to add an intro/full article image to article (J3)

On one of my servers (Plesk on Linode) I have several Joomla sites. Sometime in the past couple weeks we are no longer able to select (or upload) an intro or full article image to an article. It is ...
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media manager,error not work,thanks!

open the media management,its error “Property 'mime_type' of argument 'item' of event onFetchMediaItems has a wrong item. Valid: string” i dont know why,thanks!
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Render field in backend record form from plugin xml file

I'm building a component with payment plugins and I need to display the plugins fields in the account form record. The plugin xml fields section is <fields name="params"> <fieldset ...
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Joomla 4 alpha display modal with insert image button

I am developing a custom module in Joomla4 alpha, using a bootstrap rendered modal window so that the user of the component will assign images from media in the Joomla back end to the extension ...
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How to set default permissions of files uploaded through Joomla Media Manager?

I'm running Joomla(3.9.8) on an Apache/PHP server on Linux. If you touch a file as the server user (and from PHP running on the server), the permissions of that file are: -rw-rw-r--. However, if a ...
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Big Sized files download links for frontend users component

Is there any component which allows large files management. I would like to provide download links for frontend users but but the file size excedes 500MB. On the other side just the logged in users ...
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Media Manager 504 error

I am working on a website where media manager data is quite huge. Because of this reason the media manager is not working and gives 504 Gateway timeout error Total media manager files are of 25gb. ...
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Easy upload intro image from frontend on specific folder

on joomla frontend submission you can upload intro and full image images using joomla media manager. You first upload on the folder you choose and then select image and then insert image. I need to ...
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Render field type in custom form

I'm trying to render the media manager field type in a custom form. The form is not loaded from the xml. this code is causing an error: $obj = new JFormFieldMedia(); $obj -> __set('name','...
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Nothing Visible in Media manager & in Article Images & links

In my joomla website, if i click on media manager, nothing is visible(i.e. everything loads except the images & folders), same thing happens in articles when i add the intro image or full article ...
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Media field use local or remote file

I have looked all around for the use of the media field, and I see that is to load local files only. I need to use it to load not only local but also remote images. I notice that if I put a URL to ...
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Animated Gif in Joomla

I have an animated gif that I was looking at putting into a Joomla Module. It is an icon that as you hover over it the icon changes. Built in Fireworks, when I pull it up on an html page it works ...
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"Upload Failed: No Data" while trying to upload an image

I built a new site in Joomla 3.4.5 with JCE editor 2.5.11. When I tried to upload an image in the JCE's image dialog, it failed with "Upload Failed: No Data". Unlike this case, this error occurs for ...
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Media component reporting 'Possible IE XSS Attack'

I'm trying to upload two images to Joomla using the Media component, but one of the images will not upload and generates a notice - Possible IE XSS Attack found. The notice is generated in Firefox,...
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How to handle many images in Joomla

I have a blog on Joomla 3.4.3 and every day I generate aprox. 15+ articles. Some of them contain many images. My question is; when I add a new article in Joomla, I have to add its intro image and ...
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Prevent Media Manager popup from loading in a separate window

I am trying to load the Media Manager when the user clicks on a link. It does load but instead of loading as a popup in the same page, only the popup loads in a separate window/tab. Here is the code I ...
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How to allow media manager open video files

How can select a video file (mp4, ogv, webm ...) in a plugin as parameter? I intend to select a video file in a plugin parameters, tried field type media but videos files are not listed. Using field ...
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Changing Joomla 3's media manager base path dynamically

Does anyone know how to change Joomla's media manger base bath dynamically? Or conversely if I specify a folder with the URL, can I set that to be the base path and stop users going further up in the ...
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How to allow access to guest user for image upload on site form in custom component?

<field label="FORM_FIELD_IMAGES_LABEL" description="FORM_FIELD_IMAGES_DESC" name="images" type="media" directory="com_ccomponent" ...
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Adding Media Manager in Menu Item List

How can I add Media Manager in Menu Item Type list?
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What content is using a given file in the media manager?

Is there a way of finding for a given file in /images what (if any) articles are using it? Or conversely, what dead links towards files exist? The objective is to restore sanity to a wholly messed-up ...
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How can I dynamically set the directory for media field in admin

I've got 2 directories on my root: /images/ <-- with user's images /media/ <-- with system ( and components ) images The global parameter for image root is set to media but I want to decide ...
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Joomla 3 Media Manager Permissions

Let me try and explain this as best I can. I am building a custom component that is used to manage a group of shows, just one component and each show is an item within this component. For example, ...
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How can I export my joomla website media?

I am closing down my website which has a large archive of photos and video in the media section and want to be able to a copy of the photos and videos and put them into DropBox or such. Is there a ...
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Confirmation message when deleting items in the media manager

I would like to have a confirmation message when I delete the items the media manager. For now, to delete an image, I just have to click on the top-right cross and the image is gone: if I make a ...
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