It's possible. I've done it testing the Amazon S3 source that comes with MODX. I forget now how I did it; I'll see if I can dig it up, unless somebody else answers you first. Well, it's also obviously possible since you can view it in the Manager's file browser.
Hm. I'm finding all kinds of API functions for accessing a given modMediaSource object, but these are specific to the type of source. For example, in modFileMediaSource there are several functions for getting, editing, removing, uploading objects (files and directories), as well as getting the base path and other information from a given modMediaSource object.
There is modFileMediaSource, and modS3MediaSource. I would presume your custom media source has its own class file with its own variations on these functions.
I just thought I remembered a fairly simple way of listing the files, but this was a couple of years ago.
Ok, I've got this for you. A simple snippet to return the base path of a given Media Source, used as the property in FileDownloadR. Gives you a lovely list of downloadable links to files in your Media Source.
The getSource snippet (very rudimentary):
$mediasource = $modx->getObject('modMediaSource',array(
'name' => $source ));
$mediasource->initialize();
$sourceBasePath = $mediasource->getBasePath();
return $sourceBasePath;
And to use it with FileDownloadR:
[[!FileDownload?
&getDir=`[[listSource? &source=`files`]]`
&browseDirectories=`1`
&groupByDirectory=`1`
]]
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Thanx for your advice.
Unfortunately this doesn't work for the Dropbox Media Source.
It works for the normal Filesystem sources.
Hm. I was wondering about that; I tested it on a filesystem-type media source whose base path was outside of the web root, and it works as expected. I do have an Amazon S3 account; I'll start running some tests to see if I can get something working with that. I would presume that if I can get the S3 drivers to work, then your Dropbox drivers should work in a similar manner.
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Thanx Sottwell.
I do appreciate that!
I'll try to get media source into FileDownloadR
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