Recommendations on file dumpers

Hello,

I'm new to MODx and using it to build a site.

I've come across a use case where I want to display an archive of files, which is essentially a bunch of newsletters, by date.

Are there any good plug-ins/chunks/modules that will crawl a directory structure and dump the contents (files) in a nice format?

Thanks,
Steve

I don't know of an extra for that, but it should be relatively easy to do with a snippet. Are the files all in one directory, or is there a hierarchy? I have some code that does it for files in a single directory where the file names contain the year and month if that would work for you.

This might help?

http://modx.com/extras/package/filedownloadr

For revolution there is also fileLister
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/ADDON/FileLister
Pretty sure it does what you need, though I'm not totally sure what you mean by:

dump the contents (files) in a nice format?

but if the file is something a web browser can display (html, pdf, jpg etc) then this extra provides a hashed link to the file that opens it when clicked, or downloads if not (for example a MS Word file - .doc).
I bet it could be customized to do more - I have not had the need so have not tried.