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I’m not sure how to phrase my question, so bare with me.

I’m building a entry that uses a field that has a type of “file”. In that field, an admin can upload an image, a video, or a Flash file. In my template that renders this entry, instead of displaying that file, I would prefer to have a reference to that file (not the full URL of that file’s location) that I could use as a variable to pass to another page that would actually be the viewer for that file.

I’m not sure that’s clear enough, but I want to create a link like this:

<a href="http://site.com/flashviewer/1234/800/600">http://site.com/flashviewer/1234/800/600</a>

In that case the 1234 would be a reference to the file that’s managed by EE because I don’t want a link that looks like this:

<a href="http://site.com/flashviewer/http://site.com/uploads/flashfile.swf/800/600">http://site.com/flashviewer/http://site.com/uploads/flashfile.swf/800/600</a>

Any thoughts? (I could break out PHP and a regular expression to do this, but I thought there might be a much simpler thing I’m overlooking.)

Thanks.

-John

I see in the docs sort of what I might need in a way. It’s not an entry ID, but I can probably make it work. Any other thoughts welcome.

From the docs:

{news_image}

The file field will contain the full url to the uploaded file. You may want to use parts of that path, such as the filename. In order to accommodate this you can use the field as a tag pair:

{news_image}

    The file is a: {extension}

{/news_image}

The available variables are:
{path} - the path to the parent folder
{filename} - the name of the file
{extension} - the file extension

Hi John,

It looks like you have a way ahead for this so I’ll go ahead and close this thread. Please post back if required.

Cheers

Greg