I am looking for a Drupal solution that permits the following functionality
- file upload to a secure directory - secured by user or role
- allow user to embed uploaded files anywhere they want within a html 'page' or 'story' node - not just a list of documents in the middle or end of the page.
- security - prevent non-authorized users from viewing, editing, deleting files. Also administrator is limited to viewing, editing,deleting his/her own group of files.
modules such as upload and webfm seem to do good job at permitting upload to a node, however by rule, files are displayed at the bottom of the node. This does not allow for much creative layout, such as mixing titles and text with download links. However this solution does allow you to secure files in that files cannot be viewed by anyone except for users with access to this node.
Another approach is to user an uploader added/contained within a text editor (eg: TINYMCE). This allows user to upload and embed documents with an anchor tag/ However does not offer much security. Files can be possibly viewed by anyone on the internet, and this offers little security that files cannot be viewed or deleted by any user with permission to use this feature.
