Modules: File management

Asset

The asset module provides an intuitive method of managing any type of media or even generic files. An asset is any type of file that has been uploaded in the asset wizard: images, audio, youtube videos, flash movies, text documents, pdfs,... Permissions can be set to both assets and directories, making them publicly available to anyone, to specific roles or just to yourself.

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5.x-1.0-beta3	2008-Apr-29	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Asset Manager

The Asset Manager is a module to allow administrators to manage CCK nodereference assets via taxonomy. There are two parts to AM, a tinymce plugin and a popup for assigning node reference assets to nodes on the fly.

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5.x-1.x-dev	2008-Mar-19	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Audit Files

Audit files is designed to perform audits of your {files} table and upload directory. It will cross check that all files in the {files} table have a corresponding physical file, or it will check that all files in the upload directory have a corresponding entry in the {files} table.

This module can be helpful in identifying orphan files that have not been deleted when their corresponding node was removed.

The audit report will ignore .htaccess, directories, and the contents of the color directory.

Files that do not have a parent entry can be deleted from the report, but be sure you really want to delete the file before using this option. Files that have been uploaded via a method that do not create entries in the {files} table will be identified as an orphan. This most commonly applies to uploaded logos for themes.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-2.0	2007-Dec-05	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

BitTorrent

This module provides two items:
- A Torrent node type
- A BitTorrent tracker

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-2.0-beta3	2008-Feb-04	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Creative Commons Lite

The Creative Commons Lite module simplifies the functionality creativecommons http://drupal.org/project/creativecommons . This module allows users to add creativecommons license to any type of drupal node. License is shown as block on node view page.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.x-dev	2007-Jun-19	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2007-May-18	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

DAV

Provides a WebDAV API and file system-backed reference server implementation for Drupal 6.x.

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.0-alpha1	2008-May-08	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x

Docs

Docs is a simple document/file manager. It provides a directory browser with integrated file and folder creation.

It's goals are to be simple, sometimes over-simplistic, have dependencies only on core - currently taxonomy and upload.

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.0-alpha3	2007-Jun-07	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

Drupal FTP

This is just an engine right now, and an FTP browser. Not sure where I'm going with this, but there wasn't anything giving an FTP interface in Drupal that I could find, so here's a start. Currently, it hard-codes the ftp u/p info, and defaults to ftp.drupal.org, just to give you the point. After installing, go to /admin/settings/drupal_ftp, and possibly change access rules at /admin/user/access.

This is an extensive remodification of the my_ftp class (though no longer a class) at http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/PHP/My-FTP-Wrapper-Class-for-PHP/

Possible uses:

• ftp browsing
• automatic module/theme installation
• inline file modification

I made a custom module using this as an API that will copy Image files (during upload) to an ftp server, so they may be served from off-server. But it's a fairly specific use, and doubtful there's much use for that sort of application. However, I'd be happy to contribute it if there's a need for it.

Direct any questions or suggestions to winborn (at) advomatic (dot) com

Aaron Winborn

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-1.x-dev	2007-Jun-29	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

File Framework

File framework is a collection of modules which allows uploading and displaying different media type files. It uses a distributed content-addressable storage (CAS) system Bitcache for a file storage.

A metadata of the uploaded files is extracted using EXIF, GetID3, pdfinfo and saved in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) storage.

A node of type file is created for each uploaded file. This gives a revision control and will integrate with the views.

Each file is converted to number of other MIME formats using available open source converters. For example a MS Word file can be automatically converted to PDF, OpenDocument Text (using OpenOffice daemon + JODConverter), Plain text (using catdoc), Flash video (using SWFTools), JPEG (using GhostScript) and Zip (using gzip). Converted (derived) files are saved in the Bitcache and their metadata is extracted and saved in the RDF along with the relation to the original file. All derived files are listed and can be downloaded.

If a file is a plain text or has a plain text derivative, it is indexed and can be searched based on content.

Framework provides number of viewers. A file can be previewed in various MIME types using derived files. Viewers are triggered via AHAH calls without page reloads.

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.x-dev	2008-Apr-25	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

Filebrowser

Allows site administrators to expose a particular file system folder and all of its subfolders with a fancy FTP-like interface to site visitors. File metainformation (via descript.ion and files.bss) is supported. The module also allows these metafiles to store special content, which can be parsed with a callback. If no callback is specified in the file, only the description will be fetched.

Version	Date	Links	Status
6.x-1.1-beta1	2008-Jan-18	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 6.x
5.x-1.0	2008-Jan-18	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x

FileField

FileField provides a generic file upload field for content.module (CCK). It's supposed to be an alternative to upload.module in Drupal core, and provides a CCK field called "File" that you can use in your content types. Versions 5.x-2.3 or later (including all 2.3 release candidates) depend on the MimeDetect module for determining the MIME type of uploaded files.

You can use the Transliteration module to get correctly transliterated filenames, CCK Field Permissions for fine-grained control over user access, and Download Count for (you guessed it) counting your file downoads. Note that enabling the Devel module will probably break AJAX uploads (see this for more information).

Version	Date	Links	Status
5.x-2.3-rc3	2008-Mar-09	Download · Release notes	Recommended for 5.x
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2007-Feb-01	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot

FileRequest

Drupal has an aweful way of handling file requests through the private method. This module fixes that, it implements most of the HTTP features. Things likecaching and resuming are supported.

This module also as a anti-leech feature which should prevent stealing of files on remote sites. So this module can also be an addition when using the public method. The user will be redirected to the node to which the file was associated. Currently the anti-leech only checks the referer to be within the configured range. Empty referers are currently still allowed, but this might change in a future release.

A special mode has been added for in case of images (only JPEG, PNG and GIF). Either a watermark can be added or the image can be subsituted with an other image. In case of watermarking the watermark images has to be a PNG, it's best to make use of the PNG alpha channels for a nicer result.

Be sure to read the README.TXT file concerning a performance increase by using rewrite rules.

Note: if you had a filerequest module installed from before march 26, 2006 you will need to update the throttle.config.php if you were using this feature.

Version	Date	Links	Status
4.7.x-1.x-dev	2006-Nov-13	Download · Release notes	Development snapshot