[alpinemartin]

Michael, many thanks for your clarifications and for you patience with a joomla newcomer! Once I understood that my Joomla 1.6.3 installation for some reason was missing the load module plugin (which comes with Joomla), then I was able to install this through php and now your syntax works just fine! Indeed not a problem with your module!

Many thanks again for your help and patience!

Martin

P.S. What do you think about my improvement suggestion (in your forum, suggestion to Easy Folder Listing)?

[alpinemartin]

@michael. Thanks for taking the time to read my questions and for your reply, but it unfortunately doesn’t solve the problem of displaying the table according to your instructions. Your plugin doesn’t “behave that way” on my system.

1. I have gone to the Plugin Manager and looked for “Content – Load Modules” plugin. It isn’t visible in the list (I checked the 2 pages and did a search within the list of Plug-in Manager for both “content” and “load module”). However, when going to Extensions, Manage I can see “Easy Folder Listing” in the list and it is enabled. I have then followed your instructions to go to the Module mod_easyfolderlisting, to set its position to an arbitrary one and to set its parameters. When I do this and include the call {loadposition arbitraryposition} in the article where it should be shown, only the text “{loadposition arbitraryposition}” shows up in the article, not the table.

2. However, if I do not use an arbitrary position, but rather use user2, then both the directory listing and the text {loadposition user2} show up in the article. Hence, I deduce that the text {loadposition user2} is not interpreted as a call, but as simple text string. The reason the module works in my case must be that the Module is published and specified for the article in question and therefore shows up regardless of which text I put in the article.

I would very much appreciate your thoughts and hints as to why it doesn’t work as you describe on my system and suggestions for what to do, so that I can use it with your suggested syntax. I am running joomla 1.6.3 and have uninstalled and reinstalled your plugin. Uninstall as well as Reinstall is successful.

3. Thanks for the explanation regarding the functionality of showing subfolders only being availabe in the pro version.

Best regards, Martin

[alpinemartin]

Hi Michael

I’m wondering if you would like to consider the following feature, which I personally think would significantly add value to users desiring to do multiple downloads of heavy files (e.g. video files): why not display an additional column (e.g. as the first column), allowing the user to put tick marks on those elements he or she would like to download. You might also want to display a button labeled say “group download”. Once the user clicks on group download (and provided he or she has already selected files) the normal window appears allowing him or her to specify the destination directory and potentially the name of the package to be downloaded. The result would be the download of a zipped package of the selected files.

What do you think?

[alpinemartin]

Hi Michael

Thanks for your reply and sorry if I haven’t made myself clear. I don’t want to be tedious but here are the details of what I have tried and my specific questions:

I have:

– installed your easy folder listing .zip without any problems into joomla 1.6.3

– enabled the component (view: Extensions>Extension Manager>Manage)

– created a menu item and a corresponding single article where I would like to use the easy folder listing

– ensured that the easy folder listing module has the appropriate menu assignment to the appropriate menu item (it doesn’t matter if I use “all” or just the right one)

Now for my difficulties:

– first problem: it doesn’t matter if I publish or unpublish the easy folder listing module, I can not get it to display by placing {loadposition x_list} in the article syntax. Ironically, the only thing which is displayed is the text “{loadposition x_list}”. Needless to say, I have tried both using fictive names as “trial” as well as real positions such as “user2” instead of “x_list”.

– second problem: when I publish the easy folder listing module, it displays appropriately, but the activating tag “{loadposition x_list}” is displayed separately on the same page as text. If I remove “{loadposition x_list}” from the article and merely replace it with a “.” (in order to have something in the article; otherwise joomla complains when I try to save the article), then easy folder listing still displays, but now only with the text “.” below it. Hence, I deduce that the activating tag has no effect.

– third problem: when I specify a directory with files, the files are listed in a table. However, when I specify a directory, which contains several other directories with files, the only thing shown by easy folder listing is an empty table

I am surely somehow committing beginners errors, but would be grateful for your help to figure out what I am doing wrong.

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