# Adding an asset sytem to Radiant

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [September 24, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805 "2006-09-24T05:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Lloyd)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805/1 "2006-09-24T05:42:42Z")

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Hi,

I was wondering about an assets management system for Radiant. I really  
love  
how they have implemented it in Mephisto: having the basket was an  
awesome  
idea. I had a look at porting that from Mephisto to Radiant, but I’m too  
much of a n00b. Maybe with the advent of the plugin system it might be  
easier to implement somthing like this, but I think it would be better  
if it  
was built into Radiant core. I had a look at the Roadmap, but it doesn’t  
mention much about new features apart from the upcoming 0.6 release.

I would love to use Radiant for an upcoming client site but this is the  
only  
feature that I really need. I’ve already had a look at the gallery  
behaviour, which is sort of what would be good except for that the user  
has  
to upload all the files to the server.

Is anybody currently working on this/thinking the same thing/know how to  
do  
this?

Chris Lloyd

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Lloyd)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805/2 "2006-09-24T23:46:43Z")

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Hi Chris,

I’ve ported the Mephisto asset management system over to my Radiant  
project. It’s not too difficult but it is a bit messy - I had already  
ported the mephisto tagging system as well though so there may be more  
involved when using a pure Radiant base. I would have produced a patch  
but I’m working with a highly modified version of Radiant with a  
different user system, tagging built in and a redesigned admin  
interface so it woudn’t have been much use to anyone else.

However… adding this kind of functionality should be a lot easier  
once the new plugin system has been fleshed out. I’ll definately be  
looking at creating an assets plugin as soon as the core development  
is in a reasonably usable state.

There was mention of porting the asset manager across on the list  
previously but I havn’t heard anything else regarding this. I would  
suggest finding a usable workaround for now and waiting for the new  
plugin system so that you can keep a maintainable solution that you  
don’t have to keep manually updating everytime a new version is  
released.

–  
Kevin A.

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Lloyd)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805/3 "2006-09-24T23:50:44Z")

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2006/9/24, Kevin A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):  
Great news, I will eagerly wait for that plugin 🙂 (even though asset  
management should be in core IMHO)

However… adding this kind of functionality should be a lot easier

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/cab0a1/32.png) [@Chris\_Lloyd](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chris_Lloyd)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2006, 2:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/adding-an-asset-sytem-to-radiant/69805/4 "2006-09-25T02:18:54Z")

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Kevin,

The plugin sounds great. I already have a pretty hacked up admin  
interface  
myself, I’m not looking forward to upgrading… But hopefully everything  
that I’ve done so far can be made into plugins. I’d be really interested  
to  
see what you have done, but I’ll just guess I’ll have to wait :D. Do you  
know when 0.6 is scheduled to be released?

Chris