Digital Asset Management

01 / THE PROBLEM

Problem & objectives

Organize digital files with searchable metadata, controlled access, previews, and recoverable workflows.

Native digital-asset library for local XAMPP use with secure uploads, metadata/search, RBAC, previews, version history, sharing, collections, reporting, audit logs, and recycle-bin workflows.

02 / THE SYSTEM

Architecture & technology

A PHP 8 application for local XAMPP use. Protected page controllers and media endpoints enforce session, role, and asset visibility checks; PDO prepared statements handle MySQL persistence.

1. Asset library
2. PHP & access control
3. MySQL records

03 / THE BUILD

Implementation & key features

• Asset metadata and search
• Preview and version-history workflows
• Collections, sharing, reporting, and recycle bin

04 / THE BOUNDARIES

Security & reliability

Design notes and review considerations documented alongside this project:

• Secure upload handling
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Audit logging

05 / THE DECISIONS

Challenges & trade-offs

The documented deployment targets a local XAMPP environment. Public hosting requires a separate review of upload storage, permissions, and deployment configuration.

06 / THE RESULT

Outcome & engineering takeaways

A local asset library with validated uploads, search, RBAC, controlled previews and downloads, sharing, collections, version history, reporting, and a recycle bin.

The engineering takeaway is to make the system’s capabilities and limits explicit. The repository documents the implementation and its current scope.