Personal userfiles

Hi,

Is there a way to use personal userfile directories ? I need to allow access to images for users that are member of a suborganization, and in some cases even on a personal basis (each user gets its own directory).

The AccessControl feature is nice but mainly applies to roles. So I should create a unique role for every user, which is not a good practice. Besisdes that I see no way to add/remove AccessContol after initializing.

I think it would be nice to have an event or callback (serverside) that gives me a way to grant/deny access. As far as I can see there is no way to do so.

So what would be the best way to create personal (or grouped) userfile access ? By the way, I am using ASP.NET C#.

thanks !
Arjan

Wed, 06/02/2010 - 14:45

arjanpot

Joined: 28/09/2009

Posts: 6

Re: Personal userfiles

Foud a solution myself by changing the CKFinder source.
Is there a better solution ?
How easy can this be implemented in other platforms ?
And finally how can I promote this to the offical release ?

My solution:

In both Config.cs and ConfigFile.cs added a (virtual) method:

    bool CheckAuthorisation(CKFinder.Connector.FolderHandler folder, string subdirectory).

In GetFoldersCommandHandler.cs added this line in the subdirectory loop (at line 60):

    if (!Config.Current.CheckAuthorisation(this.CurrentFolder, sSubDirName))
        continue;

Then finally in the config.ascx, right next to the override of CheckAuthentication() I am able to do this:

    public override bool CheckAuthorisation(CKFinder.Connector.FolderHandler folder, string subdirectory)
    {
        // Deny access to anonymous users
        if (!Page.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
        {
            return false;
        }
        // Grant access to administrators
        if (Page.User.IsInRole("Administrator"))
        {
            return true;
        }
        // Grant access to other users by username
        return (subdirectory.Equals(Page.User.Identity.Name, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase));
    }

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 21:00

arjanpot

Joined: 28/09/2009

Posts: 6

Re: Personal userfiles

Allright, found the solution myself... there is no need for this CheckAuthorisation() method. I now know that SetConfig() is called for every new CKFinder instance. So I can just set the BaseUrl in the SetConfig() method, pretty easy.

Now I wonder why some settings are by Session variables and others can be done by the config. And why is there a separate CheckAuthentication() method being called. Couldn't there be just a property "bool IsAthenticated" in the config ? Chances are small that the authentication is going to change in between the call to SetConfig() and the call to CheckAuthentication(). Or am I missing some fundamentals right here ?

Arjan

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 17:55

willcastillo

Joined: 04/06/2010

Posts: 5

Re: Personal userfiles

Hello,

I need to achieve EXACTLY the same behaviour.

The problem is that I'm creating CKFinder from PHP to integrating it with CKEditor.

I used this code:

   include_once TCM_PATH.'/lib/ckfinder/ckfinder.php';
   $ckfinder = new CKFinder();
   $ckfinder->BasePath = '../../wp-content/plugins/tcm/lib/ckfinder/'; // Note: BasePath property in CKFinder class starts with capital letter
   $ckfinder->SetupCKEditorObject($CKEditor);   
   
      
   // Create textarea element and attach CKEditor to it.   
   $result .= $CKEditor->editor("editor1", $initialValue);

Where should I add the SetConfig call... I didn't find it in the documentation.

I need the userfiles folder to looks something like userfiles/[user1login]/
I need the userfiles folder to looks something like userfiles/[user2login]/
I need the userfiles folder to looks something like userfiles/[user3login]/

Where userXlogin resides in a session variable.

I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter.

All best,
Will

Fri, 06/04/2010 - 20:33

willcastillo

Joined: 04/06/2010

Posts: 5

Re: Personal userfiles SOLVED

I made it.

Just edited the config.php file in this way:

$baseUrl = 'http://www.tucorreomasivo.com/wp-content/plugins/tcm/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/'.$_SESSION['username'].'/';
$baseDir = '/home/correo/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tcm/lib/ckfinder/userfiles/'.$_SESSION['username'].'/';