Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Re: Enhancements to File Manager

[Graeme <gr...@pr...>]

p dont think said:
>> 1.  Ability to specify a common, "header",  part for the base
>> directories.
>
> Easy.  I'll put it on my short list.
>

Thanks

>> 2.  Ability to specify a display name for each base directory.
>>
>>     At the moment a base directory of
>> "/path/to/user/file/space/users/filedir" will have a display name of
>> "filedir".  I'd like to be able to specify a display name of say
>> "Web1"; possibly, in combination with 1 above, using a syntax of
>> "/users/filedir:Web1"
>
> I don't really understand that syntax, but moreover, there will be 100
> other people who want a different syntax.
> ...

I wasn't suggesting anything fancy.  Just adding a display name to the end
of each base directory using a ':' as the separator to facilitate parsing.
>
>> 3.  Ability to share a common quota over a user's combined file space.
>>
>
> This is a little more work, but I'll add it to my list.
>

I hope my patch will ease your workload a little.

>> 4   Ability to use a MySQL table instead of the file file_manager.users
>
> And yet more work... not hard, but more work.  This one goes on my long
> list unless someone else wants to do it.
>

I'll see if I can come up with a MySQL backend

Cheers
Graeme
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