Beginner's Guide

The biggest advantage of that separation is the possibility to Restrict Uploads to users lower than the
manager role. You can allow registered users to upload images but you do not have to give permission to
upload other files. This is, in some cases, very useful. The next options you see are MIME
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types,
nowadays often called Internet Media Type. If you are a Windows user, you usually only distinguish
different file types by their extension. Internet Media Type is another way to recognize the type of a file
even without a file extension. You can permit or forbid as many file types as desired.
The Flash Uploader is one of the most sophisticated features that is often forgotten about. In
Joomla 1.5 it didn't always work properly but the version coming with Joomla 2.5 is excellent for
uploading more than one file at a time. The Flash Uploader simply works and is easy to use! Try it! (Figure
5).
Figure 5: Media manager Flash Uploader
As you notice, the Joomla media manager is no rocket science
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but it is a reliable, easy to use tool to
manage your images and other files.
If you need a more sophisticated product, Joomla offers other solutions in the extension directory in
the category File Management
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Media manager and the editor
Now you know about the central place of your files but how can you manage to connect them to
your content?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_type
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rocket+science
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http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/core-enhancements/file-management