decent website file manager

Gman · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:31

looking for a file manager type thing/script to place on a website which will allow the user to upload / delete / rename files in a certain directory on the server.

Found a half decent one in MCFileManager .NET but its costs £££ looking for a free one.

Anyone got any suggestions ?

Ross1234 · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:38

some hosts offer this as standard. I think you mean ftp accounts.

Inquisitor · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:44

Something like this?

Gman · 12 Jan 2008 at 22:03

kind of but thats php.

Naww could use an ftp account but that'll be too complicated for them, they need something simple that they can say click an 'Upload file' button which will open a popup with the file manager and they can add / remove files then attach them to posts they make.

have a look at this
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true

click the 'Insert / Edit Image button then click the little square file manager button. that popos up the image/file manager thing.

Something like that really.

On the website i'm making they can create news posts and on the 'new post' screen they can upload a file, once this gets upload it copies the url of the file and inserts a link in the posts text area.

My problem is doing it like this there eventually going to run out of space on the server as theres no way to manage the files their uploading without showing them how to use the hosting's file manager or ftp account (which I'd prefer not to do). Another solution would be fr me to store the file names in the database against the 'news post' record and use that to display a list of files attached to that news post, and let them remove them from there if needed.