File Manager Module
Development and Programming
Will this module let me put a client FTP on my site? I want to allow clients to login with a username/password then upload/download files into a server folder, and then view a list of files on the server when their done.
It doesn’t create FTP-accounts, if that’s what you’re asking. The File Manager module cooperates with your Upload Destinations. You can “Restrict file uploading to select member groups”, which will also have its effect on the File Manager module: members not allowed to upload to a certain Upload Destination won’t be able to view those files either.
The module doesn’t have a font-end interface, so clients will have to be able to access the control panel and this module. Once they have, then they can upload, view and delete (and for some file types: edit) files in upload destinations to which their member group has access.
thanks for your reply.
Do you know if ee has any modules that let me create a client FTP that doesn’t require them to login into the CMS?
I’ve looked into most of the docs but I haven’t seen it. Just wondering if I missed something.
-summer
Do you know if ee has any modules that let me create a client FTP that doesn’t require them to login into the CMS?
As far as I am aware, EE – or any other content management system that I’ve encountered – does not allow maintaining FTP accounts. I say ‘allow’, but I’m not sure if it’s at all possible. I think it’d really be beyond the scope of a CMS, to be honest.
Hello, When I post a new big image, (with size restrictions like 400x600px), nothing happens : The big image is in the destination directory. EE give me a empty blank page, without resizing dialog. EE 1.4.2, last File Manager Module.
Jean-Pol, this is what happens when the web server cannot resize the image because it’s too big to begin with. It has to do with the web server’s memory and capacity, when the original image dimensions are really big. The problem is, that the server just ‘hangs’ (the blank page) instead of giving back an error of some sort. And because the memory and capacity of each web server is different, it’s difficult to check in advance if the image is going to be too big to resize. When EE hangs, it cannot complete the File Manager algorithm, so the original image isn’t deleted.
In short, I’m aware of this issue, but I haven’t got a proper solution for it (yet). As a workaround, you should keep your uploaded images small… That’s the best I can do for now, I’m afraid.
Lodewijk,
I’m using your file manager module for a rather large site with a bunch of files. Things appeared to be working fine… you made a nice module. However, I’ve noticed that not all of the destinations that we have created are displaying in the Upload Path drop down menu on the File Upload form. We have created 11 destinations and only 6 of them appear in the drop down menu. I’ve looked in the database and there doesn’t appear to be any record difference between them. I’ve also looked through the source code of your module and I don’t notice any reason for this. However, it’s a pretty big problem. If a user selects Upload New File from within a destination thats not in the drop down menu it just selects one a random and we have begun to loose track of files.
Any idea on why this could be happening?
practis, you should probably check if the permissions for each upload destination are set correctly. Take a look at the bottom of this page in the docs. If you create a new upload destination, the default setting for ‘can upload files’ will be set to ‘no’.
I’ve checked the permissions. I’m also logged in as a super admin… so I should be able to upload to all the destinations anyway. But, for some reason some destinations still do not appear in the drop down menu when they should.
Strange indeed. I’ve never seen this behaviour before. Could you give me access to your site? Then I can take a look myself.
Lodewijk, that would be great… but unfortunately I can’t give you access to the site that I took screen shots of. However, I’m experiencing this problem on pretty much all the EE sites that we have built so far (4 or 5). I just didn’t notice it until now.
I can give you access to a smaller site with fewer upload destinations than the one above but you will be able to see that we are already beginning to see the problem there as well. We have created three upload destinations (Documents, Images, and Main Upload Directory) and yet only Documents and Main Upload Directory are showing in the drop down menu. I will send you the login information in a PM.
Practis, some of your upload folders don’t seem to be writable. You need to chmod all your upload destinations to 777 in order to upload files to them, either with the File Manager module or native EE upload tool in the Publish section. That’s why the destinations aren’t listed (and why you can’t delete any files in those folders).
Wow… sorry about that. I’m not the only one in the office that makes the destinations and apparently other people aren’t setting the permissions properly.
Thanks a lot for answering my stupid questions I appreciate it!!
They’re not stupid questions at all. The fact that the destinations weren’t writeable thus didn’t know was not readily apparent.
Is it possible to call Lodewijk’s upload file manager from the Standalone Entry Form, instead of the default EE upload manager ( {upload_url} )?
Thanks for your advice, in advance.
Matt
Matt, I’m afraid not. The File Manager is Control Panel-only, at the moment.