Upgrading to 6.x

I'd love to, but I'm crazy busy with a new job; my primary motivation for maintaining the project went away when my previous employer laid me off.

If you have an upgrade patch, I'll review it and if clean I'll add it (note: go from cvs head, not one of the linked "distributions"). If not, you're just going to have to wait a couple of months till I'm past a ship deadline.

- Steve

Subscribing. :-)

If I can help with any testing once a Drupal 6 port is ready, please let me know.

Thanks,

-- Doug

subscribing...

I've got a port. Well, it's a drastic, one-eye-on-D7 reworking really. Tested and working in fundamentals.

But I have a personal impass. This cost me personal time and effort, and the only reward is my personal necessity. As I understand, Steve can keep only a interested eye on this. I can't be a maintainer. It's massively discouraging to upload all this work to this quiet node, especially as I am in no position to do cross-browser work or run unit tests.

Opinions?

Otherwise, you're waiting on Steve.

Rob

Very cool! Can you upload the files, a patch, or tell me where to pull your patches from? I certainty can't do anything with it unless I have it.

- Steve

I recently upgraded my site to D6 and had to port the filemanager module. I have done some testing (though not exhaustive yet). I have attached the port here.

-mani

I downloaded, installed and configured this file in Drupal 6.20. Installed ok with no errors. however not being familiar with the module, I couldn't find how I can use it. Can someone please let me know where I can find some documentation or under which menu I can find this module?

Thanks!

@Vako: hey Vartex, did you try the project's page?:

This module adds a full featured file management API for your modules to use. This API is module development and does not directly add functionality to your site. This module is required for the attachment module which is an alternative to Drupal's included upload module. ...

...and that's why you see no UI or any other "graphic" way to use it. It is meant to be used in code or by other modules as a helper (that's what APIs do) and doesn't provide usable interface by itself alone. You'll need it only in two cases:

- another module requires it to be installed
- you need to code something yourself

...title typo ;)

Thanks a lot, now it makes sense.
Would you recommend any module that can utilize it?

Once again, the answer lies in the project's page my friend, where the Attachment module is mentioned. Both of these (Filemanager & Attachment I mean) are Drupal 5 modules though and I wouldn't recommend either one. Perhaps you are looking for something like elFinder, or Web File Manager or DataBase File Manager. I haven't personally tried any of these, but the last two seem to not be maintained that much (their maintenance status: is set to "Seeking co-maintainer(s)") but the first one seems to be actively maintained. As for their user base in sequence of mention: ~575, ~6000 and ~30.

...the status of this issue before you post was 'active' and as far as I know there is no 6.x release available. So setting status back to what it was.

...forgot to say that elFinder has a 7.x version available too!

...actually, this issue is here since 2008 and the user base of this module seems to be steadily decreasing (either sites that have found alternative modules to this one or D5 sites that are moving to D6/D7). On top of that, almost all issues in the issue queue of this module were left for 1 or 3 years without any reply (except this issue here). So I think it is safe to close this issue, consider this project abandoned and point people to alternative solutions instead...

Additionally to the modules I mention in post #11 above there is this article here: File Uploading and Managing. It compares side-by-side some modules. Among them, from a quick look these two also seem promising: Take Control and filedepot (both have D6 versions available and seem to be maintained)

Thanks for the detailed info. I tried WebFM and elFinder and I like them both.