[TYPO3-dam-devel] How to use DAM in an own extension

[t.werdin]

Hi Lorenz,

thank you very much for your help, now everything is fine and I can continue
working on other features.

Regards,
Tim

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Lorenz Ulrich <lorenz-typo3 at visol.ch> hat am 12. April 2012 um 23:41
geschrieben:

> Hi Tim
>
> If you read the dam_frontend code you will see that the DAM indexer is
> only used to gather the metadata, not to store it. See this line:
>
> $indexer->setDryRun(true); // just getting metadata from the dock
>
> DAM uses TCEmain to add new records and TCEmain needs a backend user
> which has rights to write to tx_dam and its fields. So just creating a
> backend object in frontend context doesn't mean that a backend user is
> actually authenticated.
>
> The addDocument method in dam_frontend is the most simple way to achieve
> what you want... get the metadata from the indexer, but write it with
> t3lib_db ($GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']).
>
> I'm not familiar with t3lib_userAuth and its children so I can't help
> you in finding another way since I don't have the time to dig into it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lorenz
>
>
> Am 12.04.2012 16:27, schrieb t.werdin:
> > Dear developer Team,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm building an extbase extension. The FE-User should be able to upload
> > images.
> >
> > I move the images to the uploads/my_extension/ folder which is no problem.
> >
> > Then I want to index the file with dam so I can save the uid of the dam
> > record
> > in my model and save it to my table.
> >
> >
> >
> > I try to index the file with:
> >
> > $data = tx_dam::index_process($filename, array('doReindexing' =>  99));
> >
> >
> >
> > When I'm logged in as a BE-User this is no problem. But when I'm not logged
> > in
> > in BE (such as a normal visitor and logged in FE-User) I get an fatal error.
> >
> > This is because no BE_USER object is there. After reading through
> > dam_frontend I
> > inserted:
> >
> > if(empty($GLOBALS['BE_USER'])) {
> >
> >      $GLOBALS['BE_USER'] = t3lib_div::makeInstance('t3lib_tsfeBeUserAuth');
> >
> >      $GLOBALS['BE_USER']->start();
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > This helps to avoid the fatal error but the indexing is not working I get
> > back
> > an empty array.
> >
> >
> >
> > So I coppied another few code lines from dam_frontend:
> >
> > $indexer = t3lib_div::makeInstance('tx_dam_indexing');
> >
> > $indexer->init();
> >
> > $indexer->setDefaultSetup();
> >
> > $indexer->restoreSerializedSetup(array('doReindexing' =>  99));
> >
> > $indexer->initEnabledRules();
> >
> > $indexer->collectMeta = true;
> >
> > //$indexer->setDryRun(true);
> >
> > $indexer->setPid(tx_dam_db::getPid());
> >
> > $indexer->setRunType('man');
> >
> > $data = $indexer->indexFile($filename);
> >
> >
> >
> > This is similar to what index_process does.
> >
> > But now I get an array which contains an failure message:
> >
> > "Meta record could not be inserted: Attempt to modify table 'tx_dam' without
> > permission".
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm working on this for over a weak now and our customer is waiting for his
> > extension.
> >
> > Could you please tell me what is necessary to add a file to the index with
> > dam?
> >
> > Am I missing some parameters? What function do I have to user when a logged
> > in
> > FE-User should be able to upload and index a file?
> >
> >
> >
> > Please give me all mandatory settings etc so I can index a already uploaded
> > file
> > and get back the uid.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Tim Werdin
> >
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