Using Media Popup to select image

[babberoo]

I've created a Property Sales component, and wish to using the Media Manager popup to allow the user to select a thumbnail and full image of the required property. I've copied the code from the Editor to open the popup, but when I select the image, it populates the Editor window rather than the input form that I have supplied.

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<tr>
							<td>
								<label for="thumbnailImage"><?php echo JText::_( 'Thumbnail Image' ) ?></label>
							</td>
							<td>
								<input id="thumbnailImage" name="thumbnailImage" value="<?php echo $row->thumbnailImage; ?>" />
								<a class="modal-button" rel="{handler: 'iframe', size: {x: 570, y: 400}}" href="index.php?option=com_media&view=images&tmpl=component&e_name=thumbnailImage" title="Image">Image</a>
							</td>
						</tr>

How can I use this to populate the URL into my input box, without hacking the javascript for the popup? Is there a better way to do this?

[babberoo]

Can anyone help on this or suggest a suitable plugin?

[Bodom78]

http://www.phpletter.com/

The Ajax File / Image manager is good and can be tied into your components with a little reading through their forums. Tie it into the Editor or launch it to populate a form field with the path to the file and save that.

[babberoo]

Super. Thanks for that I'll take a look.

[babberoo]

Would I need to install the component again or is there a way to hook in to the existing functionality deployed with FCK/TinyMCE? These seem coded to use the Editors rather than populate a specific form field. Can you give me any pointers on where to look?

[babberoo]

I found a solution to this at

http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-d ... dca7eec259

Essentially you pass through a parameter (say noeditor=1) and then perform the relevant action and return the URL to the field. Nice.

[babberoo]

Update:

Using this solution works fine in Firefox, but there seems to be an Internet Explorer problem whereby you get an Unspecified Error when opening the popup window and then a 'can't execute code from a freed script joomla' error when choosing an image. This appears to be an IE only issue. Does anyone have an idea of how I might fix this?