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This is absolutely brilliant.  Thanks so much for putting this together -- it worked exceptionally well and did exactly what I needed it to do.  What a timesaver!

Recommend uploading this to the Extensions site for all to see!

one suggestion: maybe use "Assign" instead of "New"...
6. then click Assign to assign the file(s) to the catagory...

Will this work on ""old" Mambo sites I can not change yet to joomla???

Here's a feature request that might be relatively easy and could qualify as a motive for a 1.0.1: A recursive drill-down of the documents contained within the default 'files' directory you're searching through.  Bonus points (or karma...whatever...) if you can call it back as a file tree rather than a flat list.

Maybe I've been hanging around in Joomlapolis too long, but I'd give you 'Karma' if I could.

What I could do is have the component move all files from the subdirectories to the /dmdocuments-root, rename them (eg. "subdir_filename.ext") and create subcategories that reflect the original directory structure. I'd have to find a way to keep it simple, so the component is can be used without reading a manual. Let me know what you think.

That would be okay, except that shifting all of the documents up to one directory would break the links to those same files generated in content items.  Since it looks like DocMan stores file information in a database table, and the file name is stored as a URL, would it be possible to loop recursively through a file directory and build an array of those file URLs to select from?  Here's a function I found in the PHP manual that might do the job with a little tweaking to prepend $mosConfig_live_site and build it into an option list...

but on my v1.0.3-upgraded-to-v1.0.8 J installation it says on a blank white screen "Problem opening".

could it be something to do with this site being an upgraded v1.0.3 installation as the v1.0.8 full package installation I also use works perfectly?

would it be possible to add the same doc to diff categories? right now, once i assign a doc to a cat, it disappears from the list.

getPath( 'admin_html' ) ); require_once( $mainframe->getPath( 'class' ) ); require_once ($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/administrator/components/com_docman/docman.config.php'); require_once ($mosConfig_absolute_path . '/administrator/components/com_autopopulate_for_docman/autopopulate_for_docman.config.php'); $dmConfig = new dmConfig(); $AConf = new AutopopulateConf(); switch ($task) { case "new" : tasknew(); break; default: taskdefault(); break; } function taskdefault() { global $dmConfig, $AConf, $option; $files = false; $FilesInDatabase = Autopopulate::GetFilesInDatabase(); //files that already have a doc entry $Categories = Autopopulate::GetCategories(); $handle = opendir($dmConfig->dmpath) or die ("Problem opening " . $dmConfig->dmpath); while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ( (!in_array($file, $AConf->skipfiles)) AND (!in_array($file, $FilesInDatabase))) { $files[] = $file; } } if (!$files) { echo "All files in ".$dmConfig->dmpath." are already present in the docman database"; } else { sort($files); HTML_Autopopulate::taskdefault($option, $files, $dmConfig, $Categories); }; } function tasknew() { global $database, $dmConfig, $AConf; $files = mosGetParam( $_POST, 'files', false ); $catid = mosGetParam( $_POST, 'catid', 0 ); $msg = ""; if (!$files) { echo "No files selected"; return false; } foreach ($files as $file) { $database->setQuery( "INSERT INTO `#__docman` SET `dmfilename` = '".$file."', `dmname` = '".$file."', `catid` = '".$catid."', `dmdescription` = '".$AConf->dmdescription."', `dmdate_published` = '".$AConf->dmdate_published."', `dmowner` = '".$AConf->dmowner."', `published` = '".$AConf->published."', `dmurl` = '".$AConf->dmurl."', `dmcounter` = '".$AConf->dmcounter."', `checked_out` = '".$AConf->checked_out."', `checked_out_time` = '".$AConf->checked_out_time."', `approved` = '".$AConf->approved."', `dmthumbnail` = '".$AConf->dmthumbnail."', `dmlastupdateon` = '".$AConf->dmlastupdateon."', `dmlastupdateby` = '".$AConf->dmlastupdateby."', `dmsubmitedby` = '".$AConf->dmsubmitedby."', `dmmantainedby` = '".$AConf->dmmantainedby."', `dmlicense_id` = '".$AConf->dmlicense_id."', `dmlicense_display` = '".$AConf->dmlicense_display."', `access` = '".$AConf->access."', `attribs` = '".$AConf->attribs."' ;" ); if (!$database->query()) { $msg[$file] = "". $database->getErrorMsg() .""; } else { $msg[$file] = "Added to database"; } } HTML_Autopopulate::tasknew($msg); } ?>