The company I am currently working for is a training provider and as such needs a way to share files with a wide group of learners. Previously this has been done with a simple html website with links to files which needed updating frequently. It was a case of the trainer saying to me - Darren can you add this file to the LearnerZone. Obviously this wasn't an ideal situation especially since the trainer spends a lot of time off site. A better solution would be something like a CMS, however, customising existing CMS like Drupal to do something like this would probably result in something which didn't exactly match what the trainer wanted from the site.

For this reason I decided to develop something bespoke which would match their needs better and probably take a similar amount of time to figuring out how to do this with an existing CMS framework. I developed an application which read the file system and showed the files and folders in it to users. Because the application was custom I was able to implement features the trainer wanted such as unique icons for certain folders (the icon related to the contents of the folder and served as a memory aid to learners).

To see a live example of this application click here

and for more about the code used click here