Better Asset Manager in Fuel CMS

rustynailor · February 2012

Currently evaluating Fuel CMS for a client project - love it so far, very easy and flexible! We are interested in replacing the asset / file manager completely with something improved - I noticed in another thread the admin said they were preparing a post on integrating this (http://github.com/simogeo/Filemanager/archives/master) to replace the stock functionality - is that available anywhere? Would be a huge help right now... Thanks, and keep up the great work!

admin · February 2012

I never got around to doing that did I. Let me try and recall the installation steps though:

1. Download the filemanager from GitHub link and place the filemanager folder in fuel/modules/fuel/assets/js/editors/ckeditor/
2. Change the scripts/filemanager.config.js file to something like this (note how the base variable is dynamically trying to be set):


/*---------------------------------------------------------
  Configuration
---------------------------------------------------------*/

// Set culture to display localized messages
var culture = 'en';

// Set default view mode : 'grid' or 'list'
var defaultViewMode = 'grid';

// Autoload text in GUI
// If set to false, set values manually into the HTML file
var autoload = true;

// Display full path - default : false
var showFullPath = false;

// Browse only - default : false
var browseOnly = false;

// Set this to the server side language you wish to use.
var lang = 'php'; // options: php, jsp, lasso, asp, cfm // we are looking for contributors for lasso, python connectors (partially developed)

var am = document.location.pathname.substring(1, document.location.pathname
		.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
		
var segs = am.split('/');
segs = segs.slice(0, segs.length - 9);

var base = '/' + segs.join('/');

// Set this to the directory you wish to manage.
//var fileRoot = '/' + am + 'userfiles/';

//var am = document.location.pathname.substring(1, document.location.pathname.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
// Set this to the directory you wish to manage.
var fileRoot = base + '/assets/';

// Show image previews in grid views?
var showThumbs = true;

// Allowed image extensions when type is 'image'
var imagesExt = ['jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png'];

3. Make the assets directory writable (or assets/images... whatever you decide to point to).

4. You can then browse to it at (swap localhost with your server/ base fuel installation folder):
http://localhost/fuel/modules/fuel/assets/js/editors/ckeditor/filemanager/index.html

5. You can create a global javascript function called "SetUrl(path)" that the filemanager will call before closing the window (see line 322 or so of the selectItem function in the scripts/filemanager.js file

6. Last but most importantly, you will need to setup access control to the file. The connectors/php/filemanager.php looks for an "auth" function. This is a little tricky, but is explained some here: http://www.getfuelcms.com/forums/discussion/525 near the bottom.

If you are seeing a spinning icon, and your folders are writable, I'd recommend turning on errors at the top of the connectors/php/filemanager.php:


error_reporting(E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_NOTICE);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

Hope that helps some.

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