On 12/15/05, Earnest Berry earnest.berry@gmail.com wrote:
Jiann-Ming,
Yes, drupal can do this. There is a setting in the admin section that allows for 'private' downloads, in which they can't just know the path to download it. Druplicate file names are taken care of. Each file has a 'title', which can be the same, however, the actual stored name is unique. The title is automatically defaulted to the unique name, but the user can change the 'title' of the file. Hope this answer helps. Oh, and of course, drupal has user/password capability, etc.
I'm to the point of my website development with Drupal where I need to implement user file space, where users can upload and download files, but only view files that they have permissions to. I've looked at the filemanager module (http://drupal.org/project/filemanager) and the seperate attachment module (http://drupal.org/node/10245). The filemanager module seems to be what I need. And, even though the attachment module uses it, it doesn't seem to employ the public and private file feature of the filemanager module.
I've also tried creating a flexinode and adding the "user group" attribute, but that doesn't seem to work as expected.
I also found this post (http://drupal.org/node/25623) asking the same question. Am I missing something easy with Drupal file protection?
- Souvent
-----Original Message----- From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Jiann-Ming Su Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:41 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] User File Space?
I'm helping a friend evaluate moving his website off of Windows/ASP to Linux/PHP. One of this functional requirements is as follows:
THere is admin functionality that allows me to set up accounts (with passwords) that users can access to upload and download files (users have no access to each others files). files should be well protected (cant download just by knowing the location/name. need some mechanism to deal with duplicate file names (current site gives uploaded files a unique name if duplicate is found ... user only sees the name he typed in though).
Can Drupal do this? If so, where can I find the documentation on how to configure Drupal to do this? Thanks for any help. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
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-- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble