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November 08, 2011 11:32am
Subscribe [4]#1 / Nov 08, 2011 11:32am
I planned on using their Scribd Reader on my website, for the reading of uploaded documents and generate an automatic preview using their converting application that converts the documents into a flash preview.
http://www.scribd.com/developers
Has anyone built an application using their API? It seems complicated to me, but then again I don’t have that much programming experience.
What do you guys think?
Thanks.
#2 / Nov 09, 2011 4:42pm
Not used the API but if I need to add Scribd to a site I provide a simple textarea so the client can paste in the embed code.
#3 / Nov 09, 2011 4:49pm
Hi Dylan,
I am not exactly looking to just paste an embed code, I was looking for something such as when a member of our site has uploaded a document, a preview will be generated by sending the file to scribd and returning a flash preview that appears as a preview of the document on our website.
#4 / Nov 09, 2011 7:43pm
The php upload code for Scribd is pretty easy to implement.
#5 / Nov 09, 2011 8:01pm
Hi Dylan,
Do you have any suggestions on where I should start? I would like to use SafeCracker and have a custom field where users can upload a file, and that custom field would need to interact with Scribd’s API.
Thanks.
#6 / Nov 10, 2011 2:25am
Haven’t integrated it w/ EE at all, just used it on its own, sorry.