Features / Usability

Posted by George Greene 07 Jul 2009 17:10 GMT-0000 posts: 257

I had the same problem with IFrames and you need a plug in. Then you also need to tweak the syntax a little -you can't just pop it in unaltered.

See
http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=PluginIframe&structure=Documentation
for iframe plug in for 3.0 (it looks like the plug in may now come with a 3.0 tiki install).

For older versions you'll need to download a file and upload it to a directory in your Tiki install before the in-page Iframe syntax will work:
http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tikiwiki/trunk/lib/wiki-plugins/wikiplugin_iframe.php.

This last links to a page that actually has the code so you'll need to copy it and paste it in a new doc to upload. See this thread for more info on installing it:
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=4&comments_parentId=29608&thread_sort_mode=commentDate_desc&was_queued=n

Try http://doc.tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=Wiki%20Plugins for many more plug ins.

Posted by epoch18 07 Jul 2009 20:59 GMT-0000 posts: 12

I have the iframe plugin, and even now, every single page that has the iframe plugin usage, I need to have an admin allow the plugin to be used. This is not a solution, it's another problem. There are hundreds of pages that use the iframe plugin, and having to allow every one individually is not "ideal."

But there's nothing for objects, not that I've found. I need to embed some objects into my pages to make them actually worth using, but I can't do it.

I don't want plugins, I want to turn this code-breaker OFF. Completely off. There has to be a way to do it.

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 08 Jul 2009 02:33 GMT-0000 posts: 4662

The way wiki plugins are managed was overhauled for Tiki 3 to have better security and fewer bugs, but obviously there's still some work to do, for it to be more user friendly and efficient.

About objects, have you tried using the HTML plugin? I had trouble using the Mediaplayer plugin (in my experience it works in Firefox but a bug prevents .fla files from playing in Opera and IE), so copied the page source output of the Mediaplayer plugin and wrapped it in the HTML plugin and it works. Something like that could be worth a try.

-- Gary

Posted by epoch18 08 Jul 2009 14:56 GMT-0000 posts: 12

I tried the HTML plugin. The plugin itself worked, but it still stripped out the "ob" part of the "object" HTML code.

I got around my problem by placing the object into a separate HTML file, then inserting it into the wiki page in an iframe, via the iframe plugin. It works for this instance, but I still need a way to shut off the code-breaker (or whatever it's referred to as).