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Admin Access

To access administration, go to Home Page and, on the Menu, click on "Admin (click!)".

Activate the feature

To use file galleries, first you must activate the feature. Admin>Home>Features.

File galleries

File galleries

From the Tiki Admin Panel, click the File galleries icon to display its settings panel, the top of which appears like so:

Clicking the File Galleries icon on the Admin Panel (see TikiAdminSettings ) takes you to the File Galleries settings.

This panel is almost identical to the image galleries panel. Select the home file gallery, the comment settings for file galleries and if rankings/comments are used or not for file galleries.

There's an important setting for the file galleries: the storage strategy for files. You can choose one of two options to store file gallery files:

• Store files on the database
• Store files on a directory

The differences and settings needed for each option are explained below:

Storing files on the database

If you decide to store files on the database then each file data will be stored on a database column (field) this has the following advantages and disadvantages:

• You don't need to configure anything else.
• You may have problems if you plan to store large files
• The database can grow a lot making more difficult to make backups/dumps

Storing files on a directory

If you decide to store files on a directory you must indicate the path to a directory where you will store files. The directory can be absolute or relative to the Tiki directory for example: files/ /www/tiki/files/ /home/tiki/files/ files/uploads/ can be configured as directories. Before 1.8.1, ending "/" was mandatory.

Storing files on a directory has the following advantages and disadvantages

• You must configure properly a directory to store files
• You can upload files of any size (if you have space)

You must ensure that:

• The configured directory exists and PHP (Apache) can read/write it
• For security, only Tiki can read or access the contents of that directory. Do that with one of the two following options.
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  • Use a directory outside the webserver ))DocumentRoot(( (so the users won't be able to list the directory)
  • Use a directory inside the ))DocumentRoot(( (relative to the Tiki dir for example) and prevent listing the directory using a .htaccess file or other configuration depending on your webserver.

You may need to ask your ISP/hosting service for an upload strategy and instructions if the ISP/hosting allows uploads (some PHP's have file uploads disabled for unknown reasons, maybe to prevent disk space consuming). Since Tiki can be configured to store fles on the database or a directory if there's a way to handle uploads then Tiki can use it choose the strategy that is best for you.

Move files between them

Since Tiki5 (and backported to Tiki4.2) you can move the file in the database to the file system and the other way round, which is very helpful when migrating a tiki from one hosting to another one, for instance.

Quota

tw >=4 It is possible to limit the volume that is uploaded to all the file galleries or a specific file gallery. A quota to a file gallery applies to this file gallery and all the file galleries under it. As soon as the limit is reached not other files can be uploaded. The user will see an error message that the quota is reached. A mail can be sent via the Mail notifications feature.

Backlinks

tw >=5 The objects where a file is used (through the plugin IMG, FILE, link containing tiki-download_file.php , dl, preview, thumbnail, thumb, display) are collected. Be careful, the list can not be complete (For instance, reference to a file in the layout is not collected). When you want to delete a file, a warning is posted if the file is still in used. If you check in 'edit->file gallery' 'Perms of the backlinks are checked to view a file', the permission checking will be changed. If you see on object that uses a file located in a gallery you can not see, you will be able to see the file. You will be able to download a file that is used in at least one object you can see.

Filtering file uploads

You can set up filters for filenames so filenames will be checked and maybe rejected depending on their filenames. Filters are regular expressions perl-like without the // delimiters.

Filename must match

A regular expression that must be matched to accept the file example [A-Za-z] * (filename can only have a-z letters)

For example, if you want to require that uploads must have a wordprocessing file extension, you could enter .*\.(odt|sxw|doc|dot|rtf|wpt|frm|wpd|txt|ODT|SXW|DOC|DOT|RTF|WPT|FRM|WPD|TXT)

Filename must not match

A regular expression that if matched rejects the file, example \.gif (rejects gif images note that the period must be escaped since we are using regular expressions) If you don't know anything about regular expressions just leave the fields blank and all the files will be accepted.

File galleries search indexing

If you want the files content of your files galleries to be accessible by a search, and if you have a script that extracts the file content into a text, you can associate the script to the Mime type and the files content will be indexed.

If you want to search on files in the file galleries, you must provide handlers to extract the text for the file's MIME type. The commands, such as strings or pdftotext must exist on your server. The type-command associations are defined in the Admin->File Galleries page.

Several tools can be used to extract search strings; many Unix sites have "strings", which can detect things which appear to be text within files although without the accuracy of more specialized tools.

Ensure that the system command entered prints its output to the screen (standard output) and not to a file. Try the command on a console and check the manual. E.g. you have to add a trailing "-" to pdftotext.

Automatic deletion of old files

tw >=5.0 If you check this feature, the user will be able to say after how much time his file can be deleted automatically after the last file update When the file will be deleted a mail to emails will be automatically sent with the deleted file attached. The emails are comma sperated email. in order to have this feature working you must step up a cron job. Create a file like that in tiki root

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<?php
include_once('tiki-setup.php');
if ($prefs['fgal_delete_after'] == 'y') {
	global $filegallib; include_once ('lib/filegals/filegallib.php');
	$filegallib->deleteOldFiles();
}

Admin view

Administrateur can use an admin view of the file galleries. This view has its own column display settings. All in the file gallery and its sub-filegalleries are displayes. The explorer is automatically hidden. In thiv view additional filtering are possible:

• Not modified since
• Not downloaded since
• Orphans will shows only files taht are not referenced. Careful: this feature is not perfect, some links can miss

Setting the maximum upload size.

If your Tiki is hosted by an ISP, you'll need to find out how set the maximum upload size. If you have command line access, you'll need to adjust some parameters setting in your server's php.ini file. The example below shows an maximum upload size of 10 megabytes.

upload_max_filesize = 10M
file_uploads = On
post_max_size = 11M
memory_limit, max_input_time, max_execution_time   must be appropriate

• file_uploads: Must be On
• upload_max_filesize: is the maximum of the sum of the sizes of all the files that you are uploading.
• post_max_size: ideally this value should be larger than the value that you set for upload_max_filesize. post_max_size is the upload_max_filesize plus the sum of the lengths of all the other fields in the form plus any mime headers that the encoder might include
• memory_limit: Only to be properly assign if --enable-memory-limit is on
• max_input_time:
• max_execution_time

If you can not change your php.ini, you can modify your .htaccess by adding these lines

php_value upload_max_filesize	"10M"
php_value post_max_size         "11M"
php_value max_execution_time	300
php_value max_input_time        300
#if the files are stored in the database, you can add the following line
php_value memory_limit		"64M"

If you change your php.ini, You will need to re-start your apache or other webserver for the change to take effect. More info

If you are storing your files in the database, you need to check this MySQL variable:

max_allowed_packet

This variable can be located in the "my.ini" file as shown in the figure below. The "my.ini" file is located in the same directory as your MySQL server install. For example, on a development box, you may have installed it at:

"C:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.1/my.ini"

If you can't find a my.ini file, look for "/etc/my.cnf" instead.

Open the "my.ini" file and find the [mysqld]] section.

If there is not already an entry for your "max_allowed_packet" variable, then add one as shown in the figure above (e.g. max_allowed_packet=64M).

Make sure that you have enough storage allocated to your database to handle the size of your files!

Once you have added an entry to set this variable as in the figure above, save the modified "my.ini" file and restart your MySQL server.

Again, on a typical Windows development box, you can locate your "mysql" service (if you have it running as a service under Windows: Start->Run->"services.msc") and simply right-click and choose "restart".

You can use the phpMyAdmin console to check the value of your "max_allowed_packet" variable.

Select the "Variables" tab on the main phpMyAdmin screen. Scroll down until you find the correct variable, and then check that the value matches that which was set in the "my.ini" file. See the figures below...

Podcast

This type of files allows to have file directly accessible from an url ex: http://mysite.com/podcast/1233243234234.mp3 In a regular file gallery, the files can be accessed with ex: http://mysite.com/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=1 By preserving the extension, the file can be directly used in the rsspodcast and for podcast players

Trouble shooting

• When you download a file, you get an invalid file. In linux you can check if the file is correct and do not contain error messages with hexdump -C your_file

File Galleries Config