Joomla Agile Downloads Extension

A module for Joomla! that dynamically offers the contents of one or more folders for download. In addition, the module allows you to protect individual folders to prevent access to files in them by unregistered website visitors.

It often happens that you want to / have to offer a list of documents for download on a website. To install a heavy file management component for this purpose is mostly overkill. But if the files are needed to be updated by third parties or as easily as possible, it becomes more difficult to find a suitable solution. And this is where our Agile Downloads module comes into play and saves your day!

Easy & Powerfull

Yes, that's how it should be - simple & powerful. Our agile Downloads module acts after the initial setup completely maintenance free. You define which folders should be monitored and optionally whether only registered users are allowed to view / download the files. You can easily enable or disable this optional protection per monitored folder in the module settings.
Once the setup is complete, you or your customer can easily upload / delete the files via FTP or Media Manager. Every change to the file system of a watched folder will be reflected in the frontend after a reload of the page.

Provide files to registered users only

The agile Downloads module includes a new feature that allows you to automatically protect files within a shared folder from external access. If the option is enabled, only registered users (with an account) can see / access the files.

Multiple Source Folders supported

You can feed an instance of the agile Downloads module with an unlimited number of sources and define for each of these sources whether it should be publicly accessible or not.

Lightbox Preview for supported & selected filtetypes

You can define for different file types whether they should be displayed in a lightbox. Currently supported are various image & video formats as well as PDF / TXT / RTF / XML / HTML / HTM documents. Of course, these files can optionally be made available for download within the lightbox. For this purpose, a completely separate area was created in the module settings in version 1.1.

Search / Filter

You have a large number of files in your folders and want to give your visitors more overview? With version 1.1 the search filter was introduced. If this is activated, you can filter for files via a search field. Pretty handy, isn't it?

Shipped with Prettyfier 2.1

The Prettyfier is a code component that allows to modify labels / texts by own rules. The handling is very simple - via the backend module rules can be defined which are applied one after the other. With our Prettyfier you can define rules so that the web safe filename is not listed in the module. So from "my_ugly_but_safe_Filename.jpg" can be displayed as label: my ugly but safe Filename. And Prettyfier can do even more. By freely defining rules, even the complete name can be customized and parts of it can be deleted. The options are incomparable.

Not convinced yet?

Check out the lite version of the agile downloads module to learn more.

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#Changelog

Version 1.4.0

July 2024

- Added new Layout Option "Grid" for Elements
- Updated to UIkit Version 3.21.6
- Removed unused "scoped" UIkit Version
- Updated Joomla! Core References

Note: 1.4.x will be the last version that supports Joomla 3.x

Version 1.3.4

May 2024

- Improved Accessibility in Frontend: Changed FontAwesome i tags to span tags
- Folder Group Titles can now be translated - use the language override system in Joomla

Version 1.3.3

April 2024

- Improved PHP 8.2 compatibility
- Improved Joomla 4.x compatibility
- Joomla 5 Compatibility
- Fixed a Bug where the folder selection modal was not working in certain cases
- Improved Logic for adding folder restrictions
- Removed jQuery Dependency in Frontend
- Updated to UIkit Version 3.16.10
- Updated Language Files & added some missing translations
- Implemented new Advanced Option for compatibility reasons (scoped UIkit container placement)

Version 1.2.0

- Joomla 4 compatibility
- nx-Framework Integration
- Added: French language translation (fr-FR)
- Added: Spanish language translation (es-ES)

Version 1.1.3

- J4 Backend Bugfix for Select Watched Directory Modal after adding

Version 1.1.2

- Minor Bugfixes
- Changed: Hardcoded "search..." String added to language files

Version 1.1.1

- Minor Bugfixes

Version 1.1.0

- Improved: Module Backend Performance
- Changed: New AJAX fieldtype to select watched directory
- Changed: "slightly" decreased hover scale factor in list view
- Updated: German language translation
- Updated: English language translation
- Added: Option to disable hover scale in list view
- Added: Sort files by creation date
- Added: Sort files by modification date
- Added: Display file creation or modification date in list
- Added: Possibility to enter watched Folder path manually
- Added: Security Check for Secure Folder - you cannot "lock" sensitive folders
- Added: jQuery 3.6.0 Optional

Version 1.0.5

- Bugfix: Sorting Function partially not worked as expected

Version 1.0.4

- Added: Differentiation of grid columns for very small devices

Version 1.0.1 - 1.0.3

- Performance improvements
- Refactoring

Version 1.0.0

- Initial Release