CodeIgniter elFinder with AWS S3 Connector

Prequesites

• CI V3
• Make sure CodeIgniter config $config['composer_autoload'] = true;

Installation steps

1. In directory /application do:
   • composer require Studio-42/elFinder,
   • composer require barryvdh/elfinder-flysystem-driver
   • composer require league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3
2. If prompted: "No composer.json in current directory..." pres "n"
3. In root, write following code in .htaccess :

      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
   

CI Controller setup

1. Don't forget to include:

   use Aws\S3\S3Client;
   use League\Flysystem\AwsS3v3\AwsS3Adapter;
   use League\Flysystem\Filesystem;
   

2. Create controller at /application/controllers/elfinder_lib.php, follow function inside this repo.

   • manager() is just the "bridge" of "connector" and "view" ( frontend ) stuff
   • connector() is the main connector which will connect elFinder (frontend) with the S3 driver, you can connect this from another frontend part which has another elFinder frontend.

3. Important notes about connector()

   • The only thing you need to put for AWS config is at variable $aws_config
   • Inside preCheck() method, you can adjust max files upload individually and max volume of whole S3 path to have.

CI View setup/demo

Notes: Just demo, if you only need controller for another frontend part, you don't need this. Having connector() in your controller is enough

1. Ensure $config['base_url'] is set properly. This repo using following technique:

   $config['base_url'] = '';
   $config['base_url'] = ((isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") ? "https" : "http");
   $config['base_url'] .= "://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
   $config['base_url'] .= str_replace(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']), "", $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
   

2. Copy from this repo file at /views/elfinder.php
3. Coppy /biq-assets from this repo, it is contain app.js as the main frontend setup, elFinder frontend stuff. And some other required JS & CSS libs.