I was wondering whether it is possible or not to run multiple instances of the Phoca Download component
. This is based on a tiny problem I have, so I'd like to post that one here, for perhaps I am looking in the wrong direction: Background:
The PD component is running perfectly, within annual issues we have multiple categories holding files.
We use this component to allow visitors to view our journal with its quarterly releases. Hence the years are actually issues within the PD component and the quarterly "issues" of the journal are the PD categories. So... every article published in the journals "issue" is placed within the corresponding category of the corresponding year.
The problem:
We used the component for a while now and decided we also want to facilitate a different journal with the same functionality and structure. Besides that we want to facilitate downloads not related to any journal. As we use the "Issue List" menu option for the first journal, every section is automatically presented, so we cannot add i.e. Manuals as issue with types as categories, for it would automatically show up in the view of the first journal, where it doesn't belong...
Our solution:
We thought about it for a while...
... 
and since we want to use the same functionality for a different journal as well, we came up with a number of solutions:
- we change all
categories to reflect the year as well, so for example in issue 2009, category issue_1 will become category 2009_issue_1 with its files. When we have done that, all categories can be bundled in 1 issue, being the journal.
Then we can make the menu point to 1 specific issue, giving us a large category view sorted by year.
- Instead of changing anything we install another edition of PD, for the other journal. Of course that would mean different databasetables and systemfolders are needed as well. We could then have the same "fancy" issue view to show the years and within them the releases still being the categories.
- We could build our own site-structure with a lot of issue or even category-specific links to fake a seperation between journals and just use the component as we used it before...
is 2 possible? I know 1 is and I don't like 3 at all....
