Looking for ways to sync your production files on a local or development server? Stage File Proxy module can help you do it. It is a general solution designed for developers willing to get the production files on a development server as and when required.
It enables you to save the time and disk space you need to request your development environment's file directory to the production and generate a copy of the production file in your development environment.
It updates the database without any need to update your file directory. As its name suggests, this module helps you integrate the popular mail delivery service Mailchimp to your website. With this module, you can create sign-up forms, get in touch with your Mailchimp audience, or even insert Drupal content within a campaign.
You guessed it right! This module helps you group up your content and users on your site. You can create arbitrary collections of users and content on your site and define permissions on it. Ideally, Drupal allows the user to view, create or edit the different content types created by you. But with this module, you can restrict them from viewing or editing all content types within your Drupal site.
What if you wish to conduct some survey or capture votes on your Drupal site? Well, Poll modules help you do it on the go. It enables you to create and manage polls on your site. The module is fully multilingual and translates polls. It helps you create your blocks and pages.
Moreover, you can integrate it with render caching and BigPipe. Take control over how your content is displayed using a drag and drop interface. Display Suite is a handy tool for the Drupal development company or developer to build page layouts. You can arrange your notes, comments, views, or user data the way you want without worrying about managing different template files.
All you have to do is drag and drop a predefined list of layouts to change the display of your Drupal site. This module helps you automatically generate path aliases for a different type of content, including nodes, users, and taxonomy terms, without any manual intervention. The user is not required to provide any path alias since it will be taken care of by Pathauto for your Drupal development venture.
With this module, you can organize your content into manageable sections by URL. Do you want additional tokens, which are not supported by core? The token is one of the most known Drupal modules for providing an API that allows other modules to get into variable bits of text. It even brings a UI for browsing tokens. When you get into Drupal development, there are many content entities you have to manage. Of course, Drupal automatically creates a URL for all such entities.
But there are chances that your site may contain incomplete-looking pages. Rabbit Hole helps you create redirects that restrict access to such content. This, in the end, enables you to make your site much cleaner.
When you get into Drupal development , there are very few items that you wish to show to improve the page load time. You can either choose to render pagination where the user needs to navigate from one page to another or go for the Views Infinite Scroll module of Drupal. It allows you to load and display pages of any view inline with the help of AJAX.
In this case, the pager will be triggered with the press of a button or dynamically as and when the user scrolls to the bottom of the content. If you wish to provide a custom Formatter for the taxonomy items, you can go for the Taxonomy Formatter module from Drupal.
The module will add a new Formatter that will enable you to specify the element type, the wrapper type, classes, separator, and whether they link to term pages or not. This brings a lot more powerful and flexible, customizable layout options for your Drupal site. Anything you post on your site is available for anyone else to copy and save or reuse.
If you wish to protect your content and restrict copying, Copy Prevention is the module you will need. Using this module, you can disable text selection, copy to clipboard, right-click on all site content and images, put a transparent image above all images, and hide your images from the search engines. However, using all of these methods may make your site less user-friendly. If you wish to improvise images on your site with special effects, you can go for the Image Effects module.
The module provides you with a suite of additional effects that you can add to the images on your site. You can overlay images with other images or change the blur or sharpness settings of any image.
When it comes to enhancing the security of your website, Autoban could be the ideal choice. It allows automating IP ban with the help of the watchdog table defined in the module rules. You can even use it as a powerful entity reference widget. One of the most responsive menu modules that helps you enable mobile off-screen menu on the go. It is one of the most popular Drupal 8 menu modules that brings many cost benefits to your Drupal development. It is pretty easy to use and brings a whole host of features for the developers.
Whether you wish to combine two different menus or want powerful touchscreen support using hammer. However, you may have to spend some money to leverage this module. Sorting nodes based on the publication date or titles is relatively easy. But what if you want to custom sort nodes on your website? Well, the DraggableViews module empowers you with an option to create custom views where you can drag and drop sorting of your choice.
Set different orders, order any entity, and use tabledrag. So, there it is! An exhaustive list of Drupal modules you must know to design a fantastic website. Your website deserves impressive features. It is not possible to find a module for your custom needs. The files have to exist in the database in order for drupal to know anything about their permissions. I really want to have sub-directories for these files, which means I really don't want to use drupal's file upload system.
Yeah, I found that. Thanks, though. As far as I can tell, you get one level of hierarchy -- main and private, but you still don't get the ability to have a structure to your uploads. Hi, I arrived after reading some of your comments on Drupal. Very usefull information, thank you!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Some parts of Drupal are not always easy to understand, your ebook helps a lot. Assuming that one restricts nodes with uploaded files to authenticated users and also denies anonymous users the ability to view uploaded files, are search engines and bots still able to or likely to find and index any of the uploaded files?
In other words will this strategy keep them safe from being indexed or does one still need to set the download method to private? Very likely, yes. As they will be in a web-accessible folder. The file robots. One needs to put his downloadable files in a folder that is not web-accessible, and because of that one needs to use the private method.
I have a quick question - on page 9 you recommend typing.. Now that seems to do the following. But if I want to go "three" steps above - since my drupal installation is within drupal directory which eats away a step - what should I put? I think the second one does the trick but is that the right way to go? I have absolutely zero intuition with file paths and would desperately try to avoid having to fix paths once I have many files online :D.
File downloads sure are tricky with Drupal when it comes to multi-layer memberships roles. Thanks so much for preparing these pdfs for everyone. It must have taken a lot of dedication and effort. I'm trying to develop a drupal page that is able to manage files and control access. I was hoping that maybe I could get access to your pdf tutorial?
I would greatly appreciate it. Hi, I'd like to download this pdf and learn about files as I am having some issues that I think will help. I found your site while looking for a Drupal 6 random image module or code.
Even the little teaser snippet was enough to show me how to do it myself but I still wanted to register and see what else was on offer :. The following code works — and it was the source of my confusion. It is taken from the inspire module, who has been created and tested by me. The module inspire is used on this very site, and it works top notch.
Now, the question is, why does it work? Of course the filename key works fine in your code but not in mine, Doh! Now I'll have to rewrite my code to be even more like yours. The tutorial is wrong. I have exported the PDF file and will now update the attachment But yeah, in the code, it useful sometimes to just use the full path to the file. And the full path to the files I am sorry. I edited my earlier reply.
Quickly, but you were quicker than me. Probably because you got an email notification of my reply. Now we've sorted that out I think I'll change my code back to grabbing and using the object rather than calling basename on the filename;. That document has been downloaded times, and no one had reported this error to me yet. Most people are not very 'community-aware' for sure. Hi Caroline, Thanks heaps for the great document, it was a major help!
I also got a question regarding the display of uploaded images, I hope that's ok. I'm currently developing custom modules and I use the private download method to restrict access to uploaded files to authenticated users only. However, the custom node only shows placeholders for the images, not the actual images.
Am I missing something? Directory permissions of the File System Path are set to Thus, the Drupal db does officially not know about these files, but I assumed that that shouldn't matter, right? Works perfectly fine now, all images displayed! Thanks again for the doc! I am sorry I came in late to see your question. I am glad you figured it out. Something addressing the technique of embedding inline thumbnails with a mouse-over or one-click display of a pop-up full-size version, and how to protect both thumbnail and full sized image would be useful.
If you know of specific references to info on stuff like this, it'd enhance your PDF if you had maybe a references bit at the end. You recommend placing the files subdirectory outside the "document root" in Apache-speak so that there's no way to submit a URL directly accessing the files, even if you could guess the name and file path. That's pretty secure. So, while not quite as good as what you recommend as the only good way to do it, I used the technique used by MediaWiki's image-protection mechanism.
Barring mistakes or someone with access to your Linux account it's going to be pretty hard for a browser to get access. I can see the link to the ebook pdf in your article, and I am logged into the site, but the link is not clickable, so I can't download it Under the non-clickable link, I am seeing the text "One file is attached to this posting.
You need a premium account to download files and view premium content. The change was effective a few weeks ago. I will send further instructions to your email address. I will also modify that misleading text for the benefit of people who registered before the change.
Thank you. Thanks, your ebook was my best guide trough this topic. Was going mad setting this up for a client. OK, so I've used your ebook very nice thank you to make sure users are logged in before downloading content from my teachers' resources sharing site.
The problem is, people login and then download everything - rather than just the stuff they need. This eats bandwidth and thus costs money!
Any ideas about restricting the number of downloads a users can make, say within an hour or day. Unless you have any other ideas about tackling the problem. You need to keep a record of who downloaded what, and save that to your Drupal database. There must be a Drupal module that restricts number of downloads per period of time. If you can't find such module , then you'll need to write your own.
I paid via paypal for your book and upon download I got a "something went wrong, we have been informed" page. I am using this service here , and it only works half of the time. Hi there, I have bought your ebook and have used it with Drupal 6. Any pointers getting file download tables, downloads shown in teasers and 'warning - must be logged in to download' messages on Drupal 7?
Drupal 7 has now been out for a while and I wonder if your ebook will be useful here, too, if not, I won't bother checking it out. It would be great to have file downloads in drupal 7 as described above, but I think that all those additional modules are just not yet up to the version Am I right?
Am I wrong? It's a great ebook, especially for those who have a keen interest in Drupal and want to explore it in greater depths. Request new password. Inspire project view all inspire cards about the inspire project. What you can do create content. Navigation all-time popular content Donations Download counter Recent posts. Most popular stuff Title Hits Theming the register form in Drupal 6 True or false in php Theming the contact form in Drupal 6 File download in Drupal Saturday, 10 May — Caroline Schnapp The attached ebook, Files in Drupal , has been expanded and updated to account for changes in Drupal 6.
Using this function, we can : Keep track of file downloads — and this section tells us what files the function can do bookkeeping of. Block the download of particular files of our chosing. File System Path for private download Challenge : we need to change when and how the attachment table is displayed. Last edited by Caroline Schnapp about 11 years ago.
Printer-friendly version Login to post comments reads. Login to post comments. Wed, — stevekk A quick question Wed, — Caroline Schnapp Hi there Wed, — stevekk Fixed! Thanks for that. It's always the ones right under your nose you can't see. Wed, — Caroline Schnapp Always Thanks for that. So true. Wed, — Caroline Schnapp The white space That white space certainly wasn't obvious to me at first.
Wed, — stevekk If it helps other people Mon, — Fly by night not verified files-in-drupal With this module, would I be able to attach both private and public files to a page?
Or maybe it doesn't work like that? Mon, — Caroline Schnapp what module? With this module [ Tue, — MrPrise not verified Thank you for accept my registration. You are very welcome. Fri, — spoit not verified Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot for accepting my registration.
Sat, — milindparikh not verified Thank you Thank you so much for this informative article. You are awesome. There isn't yet a Drupal 6 release for it. Have a splendid day! Note that this is David Lesieur's module, not mine. What's a PFD? Sun, — Caroline Schnapp PFD stands for pretty fucked document.
You were close. Thu, — Caroline Schnapp Funny! I submitted an issue on Drupal. Mon, — Caroline Schnapp Maybe the check was dropped Tue, — svc Great writeup Thanks for the writeup. Really appreciated! Sun, — Fly by night not verified Explain protection Hello, Thank you for the great explanation, it really gave me a lot of insight, it would be nice if you had a real world example which implements all that you say in the book.
Sun, — Caroline Schnapp Custom code added to node. The answer to your question is given in the ebook, point 1. Sun, — fotakis Thank you, thank you So in your example you are just reprinting the attachment table without the links instead of printing the message.. Sun, — Caroline Schnapp No. Sun, — sprugman page not found? Hi, Thanks for the book. Tue, — Caroline Schnapp Private upload The files have to exist in the database in order for drupal to know anything about their permissions.
Tue, — JoepH Thanks for sharing! Chears, Joep. Wed, — Patrick Great documentation Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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