Asset Manager - CMS and File Editor

Flash doesn’t handle it very well when you try using its file upload abilities with a lot of files (like 20 or 40 files). If you are uploading large batches then it is best to stick with 5 or 6 at a time.

Also note this is designed for small maintenance on a site, not as a replacement for ftp If you have a ton of files to upload to your site at once then it will likely be easier and more stable to use an ftp client.

This is what happens when the folder you specified for editing does not exist! Please follow the steps in the documentation and make sure your paths to folders are correct.

This is usually because of your file permissions. Every file and folder on your web server has file permissions that determine what can be done with it. The simple answer is to change all files and folders to a permission of “755”. And all files should still work correctly in most cases even if you set all permissions to “644”

The Asset Manager didn’t change, so obviously your host changed some things on your server.

This file uses server side scripts that depend on your server and its setup. It is natural that some future changes to the specs and implementations of these languages can break this program. You have a few options:

1) You can re-download the asset manager in case there is a newer version that already tackles the changes.

2) You can send a bug report to me giving details on what happened and what your host changed. I can only try to make sure programs work at the time that I upload them though, and there is no guarantee of the time-frame of when I make updates.

3) You can find a php freelancer that will look it over and make updates to reflect newer versions of php.

This is a php based system. It must be up on a server to work.

HTTP _SERVER_VARS is an older variable in PHP that isn’t supposed to be used any more.

The problem is that at the time of this file’s creation, some servers did not support the new methods that are supposed to replace it, and all servers still supported this older method.

As time goes on now some servers do not support the old version, while more and more support the new version. If you are having this problem then try replacing the text in your “cms.php” file with this. It’s a slightly less elegant way of going about the code that won’t require HTTP _SERVER_VARS

MD5 is normally used to encrypt data for transfer. In most cases where MD5 would be used to help add security to flash files, the server would encrypt the data before sending it to flash to be compared with the values being entered by the user.

This uses a more secure system where flash never receives the login info at all. Flash simply sends what the user attempts to use as the login info to the server, and the server checks if it’s correct. No MD5 is needed because server’s stored login info information never leaves the server! If the login info was correct then the server sets a session variable that allows the editing of files. If the login info was wrong then that variable is not set on the server and the flash will not be able to edit anything no matter what, the server will forbid it.