how to instert links to other pages

Hello Support,
When I press the "Insert/Edit Link" button in the editor there's an option to browse the server for a link, but the file manager only shows a "root" folder and a "cms_files" subfolder with no contents. Where are the other existing web pages? How can I browse the server to create a link to an existing page (to create a link to an internal page)? Why is this not included in the documentation?

Please give specific directions/steps.

Thanks,
Marek

The reason you can't browse all of the files in your site is because the advanced file manager by default uses the folder called files in your site root. You will not be allowed to go 'above' that directory.

You can update this by making an edit to the HTMLEditor > editor > plugins > kfm > configuration.php file. In this file look for the following line of code near line 52:

$kfm_userfiles_address = '../../../../files';

If you update this path to point to the root of your site then you would be able to browse the entire site for files to link to. For example, if you have your PowerCMS loaded in a directory called powercms in your webroot you would update this line of code to be like this:

$kfm_userfiles_address = '../../../../../powercms';

Whatever folder this path points to will be the folder you start in when you click on the browse server button.

Thanks Eric, but this does not make sense. Since I placed the CMS folder on the site root (following your installation instructions) then the site files would be above the CMS folder, not in the CMS folder. In fact, I tried changing this line to "CMS" as you suggest and all the file manager showed is an empty "root" folder and an empty "cms_files" subfolder).

So I tried changing this line to just a forward slash (/) but all that showed is all the PowerCMS folders. How do the links to internal pages work in the HTML editor? How can I browse to the site files that are on the site root (at the same level as the "CMS" folder)?

Please explain.
Marek

The variable for the files path is using a relative path from the location of this configuration.php file to the folder to look in. You just need to get a path to that folder from within this files current directory. It is no different that if you had an image at the root of your site and you wanted to include it on a page in a sub directory. The image source would look like this:

<img src="../theimage.png"/>

I have opened a ticket for you on this issue so that we can help you look into this further. To update the ticket please login and visit your support history.

Thanks for your help Eric.

I have updated the ticket. Awaiting your reply.

I have not yet responded to the ticket but I will shortly.

SO what was the solution then?

Originally Said By: marek

  Thanks for your help Eric.

I have updated the ticket. Awaiting your reply.  

There were a couple of things going on for this for this. The first thing was that the relative path was not properly updated for the location of the files on the server. I added in a ../ to the path and this worked ok.

Next I looked at the $kfm_workdirectory in this file and set it to ''.

you will still not be able to browse to the php files since they are explicitly restricted for security reasons. You will need to edit the following three files to allow for PHP but be careful with this as it can pose a major security issue:

HTMLEditor\editor\plugins\kfm\configuration.php
look for $kfm_banned_extensions and remove ,'php'

HTMLEditor\fckconfig.js
find FCKConfig.LinkUploadAllowedExtensions and add |php to the end of the list

HTMLEditor\editor\filemanager\connectors\php\config.php
find $Config['AllowedExtensions']['File'] and add in , 'php' at the end of the list

So for this user to be able to select php pages from the root of the site the path needed to be updated in the configuration file so it points at the root of the site, then these other changes needed to be made to allow for php files to be selected.