creating a user-specific (private) file downloads area

I’m cracking my brain on this but haven’t come up with a solution yet... school is stealing all my brain cells away

I need to create a client portal of sorts on my modx site (using evo 1.0) where clients can log in, see their files/folders and be able to download them. The main thing is that a client should only see folders and files related to their projects. I’m managing several clients and it’s important that none of them be able to see each others files. Additionally, I don’t want the client to see the manager backend in totality, just their project files.

Initially I planned to code something from the ground up and then just integrate it with my MODx site, but I’m wondering if I can get away without having to do that. Any ideas?

I have seen a plugin that will create a directory when adding a new user. You could do this and and use a setup like fileDownload that will hide the files actual location. Another option would be to use webloginPE and have some custom fields for the files.

If it is only for download (not upload) then it is not as tough to setup with a system like filedownload (or filedownloadPE) and might not even need a custom dir for each user.

Just some thoughts, but I haven’t used either setup

Not sure about the manager question

Quote from: dev_cw at Sep 23, 2009, 09:48 AM

I have seen a plugin that will create a directory when adding a new user. You could do this and and use a setup like fileDownload that will hide the files actual location. Another option would be to use webloginPE and have some custom fields for the files.

If it is only for download (not upload) then it is not as tough to setup with a system like filedownload (or filedownloadPE) and might not even need a custom dir for each user.

Just some thoughts, but I haven’t used either setup

Not sure about the manager question

Shane,
thanks for the ideas. I haven’t used or seen either of these snippets before, will definitely give them a try. Maybe I can do the manager thing with ManagerManager? Haven’t used that one before either... lol - motivation to get out of my comfort zone and play with some new snippets!

EDIT!
I was getting help on something like this a while ago, here’s a working plugin for creating a folder with the users name, when creating a new user from the manager.

Should give you some ideas for modifying to fit your needs.

Quote from: bunk58 at Sep 23, 2009, 11:14 AM

EDIT!
I was getting help on something like this a while ago, here’s a working plugin for creating a folder with the users name, when creating a new user from the manager.

$e = &$modx->Event;
$folder = $_REQUEST['newusername'];
//$dir = $modx->config['rb_base_dir']."images/".$folder;
$dir = "/Users/mine/Sites/dev/assets/images/".$folder;
$folder_permissions = octdec($modx->config['new_folder_permissions']);

function mkdirs($strPath, $mode){ // recursive mkdir function
        if (is_dir($strPath)) return true;
        $pStrPath = dirname($strPath);
        if (!mkdirs($pStrPath, $mode)) return false;
        return @mkdir($strPath);
}

switch ($e->name) {
case "OnWUsrFormSave":
if($_REQUEST['mode']== '87'){
  $old_umask = umask(0);
        mkdirs($dir,$folder_permissions);
  umask($old_umask);
}
  break;
  
  default: "";

  return;
}

Should give you some ideas for modifying to fit your needs.

Thanks! this looks like a good start, will add it to my site tonight and do some tweaking to see how far I get

Were you able to get this working successfully? I likely will be needing to build something exactly like this and would love to leverage anything you’ve figured out thus far.

-Jason

Quote from: Bird at Oct 14, 2009, 02:12 PM

Were you able to get this working successfully? I likely will be needing to build something exactly like this and would love to leverage anything you’ve figured out thus far.

-Jason

jason
still working on it. So far I’m using FileDownloadPE and the Weglogin snippet. I’ve made quite some progress without doing any custom coding or snippets. I’m having a little trouble with the permissions but working on it. Will update when I have made more progress and hopefully completed it.

Thought I’d checkin and see how this is going. In the next month or so I’ll be trying to accomplish something similar and would love to see where you are at and how I might be able to help get it finished up.

-Jason