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Building Websites with e107

You're reading from   Building Websites with e107 A step by step tutorial to getting your e107 website up and running fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811312
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. An Introduction to e107 2. Installing e107 FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Site Preferences 4. Customizing the Look and Feel of Your Site 5. Customizing Your Site for e-Commerce with Plugins 6. Customizing Your Site for Business with Plugins 7. Adding Content to e107 8. Information Dissemination 9. Maintenance, Optimization, and Security Resources

The File Upload Manager


In addition the WYSIWYG editor, another valuable time-saving tool is the File Upload Manager. Instead of opening your FTP client each time you want to upload a file (images, video clips, sound clips, documents, etc.) you can click on the File Manger icon located in the administrative interface.

Before you can use the file upload manager you need to enable it and also to tell it what kinds of files you want to allow to be uploaded to the server. Let's do this together:

  1. 1. On your hard drive unzip the e107 files.

  2. 2. Locate the \e107_admin\ directory.

  3. 3. Scroll down the file list until you come to filetypes_.php.

  4. 4. Open the file using Notepad or similar text or PHP editor.

  5. 5. You should see the following: zip, gz, jpg, png, gif.

  6. 6. If you want to add any other file types enter a "," and then the file extension (for example: jpeg, swf, wmf, etc.).

  7. 7. Save the file.

  8. 8. Rename the file to filetypes.php. (Make sure to remove the "_" before the .php.)

  9. 9. Open your FTP client...

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