Website - letters to parents - how do you display (joomla)

[clm]

I am working on a joomla website for our school and would like to display a bank of pdfs embeded into page from either onedrive, google drive or a folder in joomla directory. This is so we can display letters to parents. does anybody do this or know how to do this?

[broomop]

you could do a iframe also linking it normally just makes it open in the browser (without the layout of your site).

[nickjelly]

We use the Attachments plugin to attach PDFs to Joomla articles. Simple, effective.

 

If we want to display a document we upload our docs to ISSUU and then embed. This provides a flip-book, interactive version in an iframe.

[unixman_again]

You could use the attached sindex.php script to list the contents of a directory of pdfs. We do this for the governors papers which are lobbed into a directory. The users see a list of files and they have to download and read them. Personally, I think this is messy, but we do it for stuff that grows. I've attached the script, 'cus the site where I downloaded it has been hijacked.

 

A better solution is to manually create a list of items and use either PDF Embed or ARI Docs Viewer. ARI Docs has more features but relies on the google docs engine and sometimes runs into band with problems. We do this for static items such as policies. The advantage is that the pdf is viewed in the browser rather than being downloaded.

sindex.zip

[fewd01]

Use ISSUU, otherwise you're going to have problems with browser/device compatibilities.

[AJWhite1970]

I use a free piece of code called Encode Explorer inside an iframe. Works great with any browser on any device.

 

http://encode-explorer.siineiolekala.net

 

PM me if you want to see a live link to our parents letters page on our website.

Andrew

[howartp]

We use Joomag.

 

Both myself and my technician (who does the web / VLE stuff) absolutely hate it but Deputy Head (branding etc) insists.

 

We both immediately use the "download PDF" link we provide alongside whenever we have to view one :-)

[rogerdnixon]

We just use an external url link to a public Drive folder. Admin team just periodically dump pdfs into the folder.

[dapaulio]

@rogerdnixon +1

If you are looking to store them all in a OneDrive account or similar, just a href link on the webpage to the document.

However I imagine it will become quite difficult to manage quite quickly once you are linking 100's of documents.

 

A doc manager extension is probably the best but that would also depend on local storage limitations. As it has been a long while since using joomla we used a docman and found storage the biggest issue. I would have hoped that someone would have written a document manager extension that integrates with a cloud solution

Edited August 27, 2017 by dapaulio