[Snippet] DocMan

They are totally different snippets and behave differently. DocMan has rudimentary checkin/checkout features and stores the files’ metadata in the database; files must be uploaded via the form and are stored with a name based on the insert value of the metadata +.dat. If your site has safe_mode turned on, it’s quite likely you won’t be able to use DocMan, since you probably won’t be able to upload the files with a PHP script to a directory outside your web space.

I haven’t put DocMan in the repository because I intend to work on it and make a number of improvements. Someday. When I have the time and energy

For a simple download capability, I use FileDownload, which just scans a given folder and lists the files it finds there using a chunk template for display. I’m not sure how it would behave with files external to your web root if safe_mode is turned on.

FileCabinet is something else altogether; I haven’t looked at it so I’m not able to say how it differs from the above two snippets.

Hey Susan, what’s the status on DocMan ?

Limbo.

I just moved to a new "virtual private" server, and am completely rebuilding my site on 0.9.5; I got tired of fighting with the bleeding edge (0.9.7). I want to put up all the snippets/modules I’ve done, then work on them. Or get somebody else to work on them...

Thanks for the quick reply... I was curious, in fact, this kind of feature sure could warrant a bounty !

Huge work I sure can understand how it can be hard to maintain and keep developping this... I can’t help coding but maybe I can try to hook a client enough to cough up some money, depending on the projects I’ll be working in the upcoming months...

um... you needn’t worry about it, David. It will be taken care of in the near future.

:D ...

I really missed some episodes lately it would seem I am a bit out of it (I need some vacation ! and take some time to catch up on things if I want to do my marketing properly )

But that’s a nice thing to know