Topic: Fork of Download Plugin

[metti]

Hello.

I'm developing on a fork for the download-plugin for some months. It has some additional features:

• Setting download and visibility rights for each file based on JUGA-Groups
• Setting for Admins for each file if user can edit files
• Assign files to Download-Handlers (See below)
• Edit shown name for each file
• Drag&Drop Upload with JUpload (you can choose this as an option in administration)
• Some enhancements on the security and session issues of the older download plugin

With the Download Handlers it's possible to use files for other purposes then just downloading. They are easy to create and plugin, so that you can write your own and can have independent settings that you can set in the plugin-administration.

For now there are four handlers integrated:

• Download handler (handles simple download)
• VCard-Image-Handler (outputs resized image as VCard-Image)
• Gallery handler (outputs images as a gallery, automatic thumbnail creation included)
• Flashplayer handler (outputs mp3s to an flash-mp3-player)

You can see the plugin including all handlers (VCard-Image and the others under Media) in action here:
http://test.netzelf.de/tiefdruck/de/details/adema.html

I'm going to rename the plugin and release it under a different name (suggestions welcome)...

BUT: It would be great to know if there is a chance to get this plugin running under the new SOBI2-Versions (currently it's build for RC 2.8.6) and what i have to do for that. I'm hoping that i can make a pre-release during next week, so that SOBI2-developers can test it.

Thx for your help.

[kenmcd]

Looks very promising.

But it will difficult to test if it does not run on a current version of SOBI2.

Also - will this Plugin run on Joomla 1.5 in Native mode?
 
 

[metti]

That's exactly the problem. it allready works with 2.8.6 but i did not find any advice what changed and how to make plugins run on current versions.

I don't have enough time to test that out and so i hoped that someone here could give me a hint, what to change to get it running. Then we can talk about 1.5 native.

Thx.

[neo]

Hi Metti,

it looks really great.  8) If you want, I could test it and check how much work it would be to fit it to the SOBI2 RC 2.9.x

Kind regards,
Neo
 

[metti]

Thank you I'm currently renaming all files and classes to get it running independent from the "old"-download-plugin.

As soon i finished that i post it here.

Cheers,
Metti

[metti]

Okay. I think this version should be installable: http://netzelf.de/metti/fileman.zip

I did not test it in frontend yet (with the new name) and still there are some things to do:
- Everything with the licenses does not work yet
- The java uploader seems to be bugy in backend. So i will implement a third option: Swiff-Upload
- [EDIT]: It does not yet have templates
- Test, test, test

Cheers,
Metti

[Trimud]

Hi, looks verry promising, but I was unable to install it.

I'm using Joomla 1.5.14 and SOBI2 RC 2.9.2.1

I hope you will continue to develop, because it really looks great.

[metti]

Sorry - i did not work on this plugin since the last post. I left Joomla and sayed hello to Typo3 - so i really don't find the time to finish it (Even to give support for it - because i forgot a lot about it). But if someone wants to develop on the pugin he's of course free to do that. (See zip-Package above)

Bye,
Metti