Is it possible to recursively hide folders?

hi, I've just starting playing with CKFinder, and think its excellent (license will be bought once its fully integrated with the CMS)

One thing I've noticed though it that the file browser is displaying the .svn directories that Subversion uses. I'd imagine it would be the same for other source control systems such as SourceSafe and its .scc files.

As far as I can tell its not possible to use the AccessControl class to hide files or folders with a certain name. Is something like this planned? A regular expression based hide rule would be fantastic. eg, being able to hide source control files or directories, or hide text files that are used for directory labels.

Or an I missing something in the settings?

Sat, 02/09/2008 - 22:12

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: Is it possible to recursively hide files or folders?

Currently you can hide files based on the extension: if they aren't in the allowed (or if they are denied) they won't be shown.
I guess that something similar could be setup for folders also.

Tue, 02/12/2008 - 13:07

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Is it possible to recursively hide files or folders?

As Alfonso wrote, currently it is possible to hide files based on the extension.

If you want to disable some specific folders, here's a hack (for PHP version):
core/connector/php/phpX/CommandHandler/GetFolders.php

@line 81, after:


foreach ($files as $file) {

add:


if (in_array($file, array(".svn", "CVS"))) {
    continue;
}

something similar should work also for other connectors.
Note that this code only prevent folders from displaying, it does not disallow viewing/downloading files from those folders if the right path is given manually.

I suppose that we could add this as a new feature.

Wiktor Walc
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Sat, 02/23/2008 - 15:50

psykoptic

Joined: 09/02/2008

Posts: 61

Re: Is it possible to recursively hide files or folders?

thanks Wiktor and Alfonso, after a little bit of digging around I found the relevent code and maanged to apply a similar hack for .NET.

For anybody that wants to use it, wrap a SWITCH statement around the code inside the FOR loop at line 48 in GetFoldersCommandHandler.cs You should end up with something like this:

for ( int i = 0 ; i < aSubDirs.Length ; i++ )
{
   // hide folders hack
   switch (aSubDirs[i].Name.ToLower())
   {
      case ".svn":
      case "cvs":
         // do nothing
         break;

      default:

         // add node
         int aclMask = Config.Current.AccessControl.GetComputedMask(this.CurrentFolder.ResourceTypeName, this.CurrentFolder.ClientPath + aSubDirs[i].Name + "/");

         if ((aclMask & (int)AccessControlRules.FolderView) != (int)AccessControlRules.FolderView)
             continue;

         // Create the "Folders" node.
         XmlNode oFolderNode = XmlUtil.AppendElement(oFoldersNode, "Folder");
         XmlUtil.SetAttribute(oFolderNode, "name", aSubDirs[i].Name);
         try
         {
             XmlUtil.SetAttribute(oFolderNode, "hasChildren", aSubDirs[i].GetDirectories().Length > 0 ? "true" : "false");
         }
         catch
         {
             // It was not possible to verify if it has children. Assume "yes".
             XmlUtil.SetAttribute(oFolderNode, "hasChildren", "true");
         }
         XmlUtil.SetAttribute(oFolderNode, "acl", aclMask.ToString());

      break;
   }      
}

Using the switch statement you can add multipl folder names that you want to exclude. Once you have rebuild the solution, just copy the resulting DLL to your Bin folder.

thanks very much for all your help guys

Fri, 03/14/2008 - 16:45

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: Is it possible to recursively hide folders?

Just would like to add for those interested in this topic that the new release of CKFinder (1.2) offers the ability to hide specific folders and files.

Wiktor Walc
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Mon, 04/14/2008 - 13:29

psykoptic

Joined: 09/02/2008

Posts: 61

Re: Is it possible to recursively hide folders?

thanks for this wiktor, really nice to see features like this being added. I'm currently integrating the 1.2 .NET control into my CMS just now. bye-bye my user-added hacks, hello new feature!