Using SS as a file distributor for downloading

Questions
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Silverstripe Version: installed with the Composer around 10-05-2024

Question: Please forgive me but i can’t find discussion regarding a target i’d like to implement with SS. English is not my mother language so i don’t know the exact terms for this kind of search…

I have a very limited experience with Silverstripe, but i’m looking if i could use it for making some nested page for distributing online pdf documents (in my case: music scores for orchestra’s members).
The problem is that i can link in a page a document (loaded with the CMS mechanism) one at a time, but i should link a large batch of documents, divided per folders into other folders.
The editor will have no time to do this, file per file…

Is there a way, an extension, a mechanism, for doing what i tried to describe?
Or please can someone redirect me to some discussion in this forum, or elsewhere, for doing this?

Many thanks in advance.
Marco Brancalion.

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When dealing with collections (items, people, recipes… whatever) you never use pages directly. Instead you create a dedicated controller that accesses your own DataObjects or (as it seems in your case) the File DataObject directly.

Just add a route to your controller, e.g.:

SilverStripe\Control\Director:
  rules:
    'myurl': MyController

and then do whatever you want by adding PHP code there. In your case using wildcard patterns seems the way to go, e.g.:

use SilverStripe\Control\Controller;
use SilverStripe\Control\HTTPRequest;

class MyController extends Controller
{
    private static $url_handlers = [
        '$@' => 'index',
    ];

    public function index(HTTPRequest $request)
    {
        // In `$request` you have what you need: do whatever you want!
        // In this example, accessing '/myurl/folder1/folder2/file' will
        // show 'Array ( [$1] => folder1 [$2] => folder2 [$3] => file )'

        return print_r($request->allParams(), true);
    }
}
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I thank you very much for you reply. I took note of every line you wrote… :slight_smile:

I am very “virgin” with Silverstripe, in every aspect of it.
When i’ll have a moment for trying, i’ll try to implement the advice you gave me.

Thanks !
Greetings.