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| Project: | DataBase File Manager |
| Version: | 5.x-4.0 |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
First things first: Congratulations on a fantastic idea for a module and a clean and functional implementation (as far as I can tell from the demo site).
Before starting, I want to make sure I have the dependencies right. Here's the full list:
Firefox 3 / Internet Explorer 7
Drupal 5.14
Apache 2.2
MySQL 5.1
PHP 5.2.8
dbFM 5.x-4.0
DAPI 5.x-1.0
DBFMgreybox 5.x-3.0
jstools 5.x-0.6
Is the above list ok? I am specifically concerned about FF 3 support as well as DBFM-required modules versions.
Also, some questions.
1. The release notes of dbFM 5.x-4.0's mention "Simple Search Functionality". Is that implemented in the release?
2. The "README.txt" file inside dbfm-5.x-4.0.tar.gz says the module requires dbfmgreybox 5.x-1.2. Is 1.2 the right one, or 3.0 as specified on dbFM's project page?
3. Which of the modules installed by jstools must be enabled?
4. As far as I understand, clean urls are required for dbFM to work, is that correct?
Thanks in advance, looking forward to your confirmation and info to proceed with my installation.
G
Comments
#1
As far as the list of requirements goes there may be something missing from your list:
If you want to do anything fancy in the way of setting permissions on your files you'd need organic groups - I think I have 5.0 on my machine but dbfm isn't fussy.
Just use whatever is the latest version of greybox
There's a bug in the currently released version of dbfm on that means that in order to link or embed dbfm documents into nodes you have to have TinyMCE installed. This has been fixed but I'm not sure quite when rooey is releasing the new stuff, if you'd like the fixed version right now I can email it, the next release includes more space for the directory tree and you get information on a file by hovering over it (and a preview if it's an image file). It also allows version files to be renamed and loads of other things.
I'm confused about the browser dependencies. We've tested on a range of browsers - Firefox works best but it seems to work on any. If you have a lot of directories then IE gets very slow - after the next main release (which should give full search) I'll have a go at re-writing the existing javascript (as jquery) and hopefully speed up IE by a considerable amount.
The existing dbfm search is very rudimentary - right click on a directory and it will search the directory and its subdirectories for filenames matching whatever you've typed e.g type upl* and it will return a list of links to file's matching that filename.
Yes you must have clean URL's. The bit of JSTools I use is Tabs - I've also got Javascript Tools and Collapsiblock enabled (though I can't remember why and I don't believe they're used by dbfm)
I hope that's answered everything.
Geoff
#2
Thanks for your reply, it indeed answers everything :).
Regarding permissions, I only need to be able to make some files inaccessible for some user roles and read-only for some others. Do I need OG for that?
I would indeed be grateful if you could email me your latest version of dbfm. Thanks a lot for that.
G
#3
No, you can manage without OG
My email's geoff.eagles@gmail.com please send an email and I'll return the latest code
Geoff
#4
FYI. v 5.x-4.2 released
#5