Phoca Download is running on different Joomla! versions. So it is possible that you will not find all listed parameters in your Phoca Download - depends on used Joomla! system.
 

Options (formerly known as Parameters)

Go to Components - Phoca Download - Control Panel - click on icon Options (Parameters) (you can find this icon in top right corner of your Joomla! administration)

Options (Parameters) can be managed only by Super Users (Super Administrators) or you need to have rights to manage them in Joomla! Administration.

 

Display

  • General Settings

  • Filename or Title - (Filename | Title | Filename and Title) Display Filename or Title
  • External Download Link - (Self | Blank) Select if the external download link will have attribute TARGET=_self or TARGET=_blank
  • Display Downloads - (Yes | No) Display or hide the count of downloads
  • Display Description - (None | Top | Bottom | Overlib | Top and Overlib | Bottom and Overlib | Top with detail and Overlib | Bottom with detail and Overlib | Overlib with detail) Display or hide description
  • Display Main Category Description - (No | Yes) Set if category description should be displayed in Categories View - Description will be displayed instead of subcategories
  • Display Detail Button - (Yes (Overlib) | Yes (Modal Box) | No) Display or hide detail button
  • Display New Icon - Set the number of days. During these days NEW icon will be displayed for the file, use zero for not displaying the icon
  • Display Hot Icon - Set the number of hits (downloads). After reaching this number of downloads HOT icon will be displayed for the file, use zero for not displaying the icon
  • Display Most Download Files - (Yes | No) Display Most Download Files in Categories View
  • Display File View - (No | Yes | Yes (Only Modalbox - Category View)) Enable or disable File View before download a file
  • Display Date Type - (Database | File (modification time) | File (inode change time) | File (access time)) Set date type
  • Meta Description - Set meta description for Phoca Download
  • Meta Keywords - Set meta keywords for Phoca Download
  • Category Ordering - (Ordering Ascending | Ordering Descending | Title Ascending | Title Descending | Date Ascending | Date Descending | ID Ascending | ID Descending) Set category ordering
  • File Ordering - (Ordering Ascending | Ordering Descending | Title Ascending | Title Descending | Date Ascending | Date Descending | ID Ascending | ID Descending) Set file ordering
  • Pagination Default Value - Set default value for pagination which can be displayed in Category View (file list)
  • Pagination (Category View) - Set pagination values for Category View (file list). Separate each pagination value with comma (,)
  • Display Number of Files (Categories View) - (Yes | No) Display or hide number of files (Categories View)
  • Display Number of Files (Categories View - Header) - (Yes | No) Display or hide number of files (Categories View - Header)
  • Display Up Icon - (Yes | No) Display or hide up icon - icon back to category or back to categories view
  • Display Mirror Links - (No | Yes (Caetgory View) | Yes (FileView) | Yes (Category And File View) | Yes (Caetgory View) as Button | Yes (File View) as Button | Yes (Category And File View) as Button) Display or hide mirror links
  • Display Report Link - (No | Yes (Caetgory View) | Yes (FileView) | Yes (Category And File View)) Display or hide report link. This link will run Phoca Guestbook in Report Mode. There users can report files. Phoca Guestbook needs to be installed and the report function enabled in guestbook settings to run this feature.
  • Guestbook ID (Report) - Set guestbook id (guestbook from Phoca Guestbook component) in case the report function is active
  • Tags (Links) - (No | External Link | Category Link | Search Outcome) Set if the tags will include a link. If yes, set type of this link
  • Display Tags - (No | Yes (Caetgory View) | Yes (FileView) | Yes (Category And File View)) Display or hide tags
  • Comments Settings

  • Display Category Comments - (No | Facebook) Set if category comments should be displayed or not
  • Display File Comments - (No | Facebook) Set if file comments should be displayed or not
  • Facebook comments application ID - Facebook comments application ID
  • Facebook Comments Width - Set Facebook comments box width
  • Facebook Language - Set Facebook language
  • Comments Count - Set count of comments displayed in comment box
  • Rating Settings

  • Display Rating (File) - (No | Yes (Caetgory View) | Yes (FileView) | Yes (Category And File View)) Display or hide rating for files
  • Theme Settings

  • File Icon Size - (16px | 32px | 48px | 64px) Set size of file icon
  • File Icon Size (Most Downloaded Files) - (16px | 32px | 48px | 64px) Set size of file icon for most downloaded files
  • Button Style - (Default | Rounded Corners) Set button style
  • Theme - (Grey | Clean) Set theme
  • Display Specific Layout - (No | Yes) Display specific layout - set in Phoca Download administration. Be aware, some parts of the layout needs to be changed in CSS too to display properly.
  • File Settings

  • License Box Height - Set height of license box
  • Play Settings

  • Display Play Button - (Yes | No) Display or hide play button
  • Player Width - Set player width (in px)
  • Player Height - Set player height (in px)
  • Player Height (MP3) - Set player height (MP3)
  • Play Popup Window - (Standard Popup Window | Modal Box) Select play popup window
  • Preview Settings

  • Display Preview Button - (Yes | No) Display or hide preview button
  • Preview Width - Set preview width (in px)
  • Preview Height - Set preview height (in px)
  • Preview Popup Window - (Standard Popup Window | Modal Box) Select preview popup window
  • Youtube Height (Category View) - Set Youtube height for Category View
  • Youtube Width (Category View) - Set Youtube width for Category View
  • Youtube Height (Detail View) - Set Youtube height for Detail View
  • Youtube Width (Detail View) - Set Youtube width for Detail View

User Upload

  • Enable User Upload - (Yes | No) Enable or disable user upload
  • Maximum Count of uploaded user's files - Set maximum count of files user can upload
  • Maximum Size of all user's files - Set maximum size of all files user can upload
  • User File Upload Size - Set maximum size of file which can be uploaded by user in frontend
  • Enable User File Authorization - (Yes | No) If Yes, files will be uploaded as not authorized and must be authorized by administrator. If No, files will be uploaded as authorized
  • User Language - (All | User's Language | Site's Language) Set which language will be set while creating category or uploading image in UCP

General

  • Allowed File Types (Download) - Set allowed file types for frontend download. Default list of filetypes is not complete and should be modified to fit your needs.
  • Allowed File Types (Upload) - Set allowed file types for frontend upload. Default list of filetypes is not complete and should be modified to fit your needs.
  • Disallowed File Types (Download) - Set disallowed file types for frontend download.
  • Disallowed File Types (Upload) - Set disallowed file types for frontend upload.
  • Maximum Upload Size (Administration) - Set the maximum size for an upload in administration. Use zero for no limit. Do not forget, that the upload size can be limited by the server settings (in bytes)
  • Enable Multiple Upload (Administration) - (Yes | No) Enable or disable multiple upload feature for administration
  • Enable User Statistics - (Yes | No) Enable or disable user statistics
  • Send Email (Download) - Send email if user will download a file
  • Send Email (Upload) - Send email if user will upload a file
  • Overwrite Existing Files - (Yes | No) Set if uploaded files should overwrite existing files on the server
  • Delete Existing Files - (Yes | No) If yes then the file stored on server will be deleted in case the file will be deleted from Phoca Download
  • Description - Set description. This will be displayed in Categories View
  • Access Level - Registered Users - Set access levels for registered users. Some actions in frontend can be done by registered users only. Set which access level group will be regarded as registered group.
  • Download Folder - Set download folder. If absolute path will be set, this parameter will be ignored. Be aware, the folder set in the parameter must exist on the server.
  • Absolute Path - Set absolute path of Phoca Download folder (this can be path outside the public_html). Be aware, this path must exist and the folder and possible subfolders need to be created manually. If the path is outside the publis_html the files cannot be previewed or played in browser.
  • Enable Plugin Query - (Yes | No) Set if Plugin can modify SQL query (Experts only!)
  • Iconv Alias - (Yes | No) Enable or disable creating of alias with help of iconv function
  • Enable Cache - (Yes | No) Enable cache if it is enabled in Joomla! Global Configuration

Permissions

Default permissions used for all content in this component.

  • Permissions - Permissions