a frontent end file [UPLOADS] MANAGER snippet/plugin ??

Hi,

I’m looking for a way to give to one registered visitor (in Frontend) a way to upload (ftp) some files to some dir.
Let’s say a specific directory created especially for him.

The proccess would be :
1- login in front end, them go to his protected page
2- use a fileuploads mecanism here.


It’s some kind of emergency....

Thank you

There is a fileUpload snippet but I’m not sure if it uses FTP.
http://www.modxcms.com/FileUpload-804.html

thanks a lot I’ll check it.

But only one snippet for such a need ... strange

Using ftp from a php script is a little tricky; not a lot of installations have ftp support compiled in. Basically what you’re talking about here is creating a minimal ftp client with PHP. The only snippet I’m aware of that does that at all is MaxiGallery, and as I said, that feature is dependent on the configuration of the site’s PHP.

thank you.

I’m facing a big trouble as my partner who is a TYPO3 man argue that all of this is a breeze (?) with existing T3 extension.

The real need for this project (and probably a few others) is to use a windows like file manager and actually not only a simple file upload to permit webusers to deal whatever they want in their own ’private’ space. the customer has already a standrd mod site (my very first one).

The need is about graphics and pre-press oriented small business (numeric printing, communication agenies...) so they want their customer put, reput delete or add files to some private space on the host, and those file may be up to 300MB, and in the other direction the website owner be able to deal the same way in all of his customer’s space.

I’m affraid I just can’t defends MODx as a whole development from scratch will be necessary.

Yeah, uploading that much stuff is really too much for HTTP upload and PHP processing. FTP and/or a bit of perl would handle it just fine, though. I’ve embedded perl scripts in snippets and modules before, it’s not really difficult.

Unfortunatly, we dont have such skills.

What I wander is why the embeded manager part (the file manager) could not be used ?

And also, maybe this application could be ’frontend-ised’ ?

It just uses standard HTML file upload. Not good for big files.

Anyway, uploading such big files is better suited with FTP, that’s not a question of Typo3 or MODx / Frontend or Backend, as Susan said not the right tool for the job no matter what kind of development is involved it won’t work for such big files.

My experience is that it’s foolish to attempt anything over 32Mb.

If you’re looking for a standalone app to upload files efficiently, give a look at Relay (uses PERL) but same answer won’t handle bigger files as efficiently as FTP. I have trouble believing that graphist or Press people can’t use a FTP client

I’ve started development on a simple FTP client a couple of times, but ran into too many problems with various hosts not having FTP in their PHP, or differences in the libraries of those PHP hosts that did have it.

If I were going to get involved with uploading and otherwise manipulating large files, I’d go with some perl script or another. There are actually several PHP file upload scripts that use perl as their back-end. But even so, there can be issues with Apache configurations for file upload limits. So it’s really far better to use a dedicated FTP client. Actually, FireFox has an FTP client plugin that is said to work quite well.