Best way to upload 50 pdf file attachments to a single page

lemmax - January 1, 2009 - 18:39

So here I am spending New Year's Day editing the content on my drupal web site and I'm having to laboriously upload 50 file attachments to a single page. Yes, I know that's a lot of attachments on a single page but if you looked at the content you'd see it made sense.

Okay, it's not difficult work but it is tedious and I think there **must** be a quicker way. Is there?

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depending on the repeatability and scalability

ncameron - January 1, 2009 - 21:16

It's a bit of a work around and may not be suitable if you want to do this on a regular basis but what you could do is FTP all the PDFs to the /files directory and then just create text links on the page to the file e.g.

<?php
<a href="files/file_one.pdf">File One</a>
?>

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merge PDF

d_l - January 1, 2009 - 21:36

Merge PDF files before FTP .. ?

.. and here is another utility to try .. Adolix

Merging would make the PDFs too big

lemmax - January 2, 2009 - 03:02

Yes I could have merged or zipped the files into a single archive but in this instance it wouldn't be appropriate. Most people would not need all the data and merging the files into one archive would create an unnecessarily large (~ 50MB) file. Also, I like to keep it as separate files as I think it may help with SEO - each individual file has a very descriptive name and meta data.

I agree that uploading the

lemmax - January 2, 2009 - 02:54

I agree that uploading the PDFs using FTP and then creating my own links would have been much quicker but I really wanted to do the uploads using Drupal.

Drupal does a good job of creating a nicely formatted table of links to download the files and also includes the file sizes. Additionally, and most importantly in my view, if I upload using Drupal the files are (or at least should be) managed by Drupal. With the last point in mind, I think it would be a mistake to FTP files into the /files directory as it would be mixing my ftp'd files and Drupal uploaded files. If I really wanted to upload by FTP I think I'd consider creating a new folder and/or subdomain (e.g. upload.example.com).

I have the exact same issue

poo master - March 28, 2009 - 02:37

I have the exact same issue any luck with resolving it?

the question is, how u want

mm167 - March 28, 2009 - 02:54

the question is, how u want to show your pdfs?

1.link - click to open / right click to download
or
2. thumbnail - click to open / right click to download
or
3. all open and shown on the page