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:
The differences and settings needed for each option are explained below:
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:
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 ensure that:
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.
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.
A regular expression that must be matched to accept the file example [A-Za-z]* (filename can only have a-z letters)
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.
RecipeBigUploads explains how to allow uploading of large files (usually over 1MB)
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