@antifm ... you mean the elgg 1.5 category system working in tidypics?

I'd like to see the categories used by more plugins, like site-wide autotags.

I'd also like to know more about folders ... were they like a storage thing or?

In 0.9 you could create a folder and upload files into it. You could create a folder hierarchy with different permissions for each folder. They weren't categories, they were physical folders in the data dir. Would be really nice to get them back in 1.x

That sounds like a good plugin.

@Brane ;-)

"Folders" = core  code v0.9  ?

yes, core code. Doing a plugin for folders shouldn't be too difficult but Files are core in 1.5 so wouldn't know about the folders.

right u are brane....

"profile" and "file" are Folders within e.g.   a/d/m/i/n/admin/   ==>   /profile and /file - so Elgg in creating the "folders" for itself anyway (mkdir in "filestore").

i'm  helping an elgg friend w/ doing a community plugins type file uploader, classifier. He is a non-programmer and it is amazing to see the Elgg functions and stuff that he's coding.JMust goes to show the power in Elgg ;-O

hmm.. after he's finished the his version of Files. I might suggest to him to do "Folders" because he can reuse the code he's already doing.

Dhrup, I think folders have to be core rather than separate from main file handling. When I upload a file I want to put it in a folder, no matter whether I'm in a community or not. I was going to take a look at the 0.9 folder code and see if I could port it to 1.5. Also, 0.9 had a special type of folder, Picture Gallery, which also can't be migrated as they've thrown that out too.

@Branes

nope I do not agree ;-O

don't need core changes for "folders" -- b/c can do the job w/ a plugin that extends func of "file" plugin. message me privately if you wanna chat re: this  angle some more... I;m also curious about porting that code to v1.5 -- [ why am am I so-o-o challenged by and about problem situations  w/in Elgg ? ]

+ re: v0.9 special type of folder - plz send me URL for classic elgg ''special type folder" so i can download and study (older) code..

actually -- i do agree because it is the (core) 'filestore' class that does the trick...he's the the who does the mkdir !

Classic Elgg is here but now unsupported:

Elgg

download from here

what I don't understand is why don't the current Elgg developers know about 0.9? Is 1.x a completely separate product? There's no complete migration path from 0.9 -> 1.5 as key elements of 0.9 have been left out of "elgg" 1.5.