Flash games swf mass import

I never got round to coding this, and no-one else has ever requested it. I'm going to set it to postponed as I still like the idea, but just don't have time to actively pursue it now.

Patches welcome if anyone else wants to take this on!

I would LOVE to see this feature as well. I run sites that feature a lot of training videos which are a pain to import one by one. Some of the video files are large too so I find problems also when trying to upload them via the Flash Node interface (HTTP) as opposed to using FTP to upload then importing from server file system. Great module though :-)

Thinking out loud, it might not be too hard to have an import function that scans the flash directory and creates nodes out of files it doesn't recognise. You could then tweak the title etc. Rather than define a list you would simply upload file(s) via FTP, overcoming the size limit, but then let Flash node create the necessary database entries etc.

I'm pretty busy right now so development time is somewhat non-existent, but I'll try to get round to it, or maybe someone might contrib a patch...!

Changing status to active as I quite like this idea and would use it myself, even if just for batch import of SWF files!

I've just committed the latest work on Flash node for Drupal 6 to HEAD, and that now includes an import feature to bulk import files. That would let you mass upload files to a server via FTP and then bring them in in one go. It would also work round the problem of large files that can't be uploaded via the node form. Provided you can get them on to the server then they will be available for import.

The import routine scans the files/flash directory, and all sub-directories, so using the import feature you can have subdirectories if you want.

I've run some tests on my local server and it seems ok.

OK - I back ported the code from version 6 in to version 5 and it's available for testing from the DRUPAL-5--3 branch in CVS.

Too tired to test if further tonight, but it certainly seems to be working. It will scan the contents of files/flash and any sub-directories, and it ignores files/flash/temp.

Files are imported and have their status as unpublished.

You access the import mode from Administer > Content > Import Flash.

From my testing it seems to be working, but I won't commit as a version just yet as this is a fairly big addition and I'd like to test it some more and get some other user feedback.

Great - I will double check/tidy the code at the weekend and then this can be a formal release, along with the changes to control of access to basic/advanced settings.

Think the code is ok, so I've made a new 5.5 release of flash node. You can download it from the project page.