[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #13817: Reusing the Media Upload kit in a plugin

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#13817: Reusing the Media Upload kit in a plugin
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 Reporter:  simonwheatley    |       Owner:                
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Media            |     Version:  3.0           
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  dev-feedback  
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 I'm keen to reuse the Media Upload overlay (i.e. the thickboxed iframe
 from the edit post/page screens) when I need to upload files for a plugin.
 It seems crazy to be reimplementing file upload and image resizing code
 when it's built into WordPress core. However the hooks aren't there
 currently.

 The attached proof of concept plugin "rmu-poc.php" shows that it is
 possible to write a plugin which pops up the upload overlay (install it
 and go to the edit category screen), but a number of issues prevent it
 being useful:

 The form is setup to be called in the context of the edit post/page
 screen, for example the JS callback expects to find a function
 ''send_to_editor'' which will accept it's HTML.

 It would be handy to insert some additional post fields to be sent when
 the SWF Uploader uploads files, so the plugin can detect that it should be
 doing something with that upload.

 The ''get_media_item'' function needs a way to customise the button label.
 Currently the proof of concept does a very ugly hack on a translation
 filter.

 Before I get over excited, is anyone up for these changes? If I started
 cutting some patches, would they be considered?

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