HOWTO - folder per filetype for filebrowser

(Description for PHP, but perhaps you can adopt it to other adapters/languages)

The default behavior of the filebrowser is that it will search for files in a directory named like their filetype:
file: "File"
image: "Image"
flash: "Flash"
media: "Media"

If you, like me, don't like this behavior, you can change the code so that you can specify whether to use a different folder for each filetype and what folder that should be.

Config options are:

// Set directory per file type
// Leave any setting empty to work in your 'UserFilesPath' for that filetype.
$Config['FileTypeDirectories']['File'] = "myFiles";
$Config['FileTypeDirectories']['Image'] = "";
$Config['FileTypeDirectories']['Flash'] = "exampleDir";
$Config['FileTypeDirectories']['Media'] = "";

So start by adding these below in the config file of your filebrowser ('editor/filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/config.php').

Then change the 'io.php' ('filemanager/browser/default/connectors/php/io.php') file to let it work with the config settings:

Change the function GetUrlFromPath from:

function GetUrlFromPath( $resourceType, $folderPath )
{
if ( $resourceType == '' )
return RemoveFromEnd( $GLOBALS["UserFilesPath"], '/' ) . $folderPath ;
else
return $GLOBALS["UserFilesPath"] . strtolower( $resourceType ) . $folderPath ;
}

to:

function GetUrlFromPath( $resourceType, $folderPath )
{
global $Config ;

if ( $Config['FileTypeDirectories'][$resourceType] == '' )
return RemoveFromEnd( $GLOBALS["UserFilesPath"], '/' ) . $folderPath ;
else
return $GLOBALS["UserFilesPath"] . $Config['FileTypeDirectories'][$resourceType] . $folderPath ;
}

and change the function ServerMapFolder from:

function ServerMapFolder( $resourceType, $folderPath )
{
// Get the resource type directory.
$sResourceTypePath = $GLOBALS["UserFilesDirectory"] . strtolower( $resourceType ) . '/' ;

// Ensure that the directory exists.
CreateServerFolder( $sResourceTypePath ) ;

// Return the resource type directory combined with the required path.
return $sResourceTypePath . RemoveFromStart( $folderPath, '/' ) ;
}

to:

function ServerMapFolder( $resourceType, $folderPath )
{
global $Config ;

// Get the resource type directory.
$sResourceTypePath = $GLOBALS["UserFilesDirectory"] . $Config['FileTypeDirectories'][$resourceType] . '/' ;

// Ensure that the directory exists.
CreateServerFolder( $sResourceTypePath ) ;

// Return the resource type directory combined with the required path.
return $sResourceTypePath . RemoveFromStart( $folderPath, '/' ) ;
}

That's all!