Hey is there any form of documentation that can be viewed prior to purchase? I am interested in using this on an upcoming project I just want to get a feel for it before I start the project. Thanks in advance

Hi, did you look at the foxee docs? http://www.hccdevelopment.com/docs/foxee/

Baaaa, I’m sorry Justin, I automatically assumed that this was a foxee question.

There are docs available for Resources. If you have any specific questions or need help planning your project I can certainly help you.

Hey Michael. I realized after I clicked on the link for the FoxEE docs that the link was right in the menu bar and I just glazed over it.

I am looking to create a back up of all of my movies, music, software and photos. Right now I have a very crude system where I FTP my files up to a protected directory and then I have a simple PHP script that reads the content of a folder and spits out the file names. It works but my upload directory is a mess I am in the process now of organizing the folders but I was looking at creating a much more user-friendly experience for myself.

Basically I am wanting to have a weblog for the before mentioned categories so that I can upload them via FTP then find them on the server and add a title, release date, info, so that way I can find them more rapidly in the future. I would love to be able to upload the file from the CP but I am worried about my servers memory especially once the files get over 1-2 gigs. But I am okay with having to find the file and attach it to each weblog entry. Is this something that the resource module can do?

Of course I legally own the files that I am backing up to the server and I have no intentions of opening up my site to allow other people to use it.

There’s going to be a few problems using Resources in the fashion you outlined. First in order to load resources in to EE and the Resources module it has to be uploaded through resources, which then checks for duplicate files and places a hash on the file name. It then places the file in the secure directory that you declared in the settings. Resources places a htaccess restriction in that directory to prevent outside access.

So once your files are in resources the only way to get them out is through resources. Even if you access the directory you will only find a hash. This probably won’t work for what you have intended. Resources was designed to serve protected data over the internet to privileged users, not so much as a backup system, basically a inexpensive alternative to those $100 a month file streaming services for companies that want to keep everything in house.

Okay. Well I will have to think of another way to go about it then.

On a side note would the Resource Module work with FoxEE and providing secure download of purchased items?

Foxee uses the same technology for its downloadable items. So there is no need for both of them unless you want to create resource groups and allow/restrict access independent of EE member groups.