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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? |
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> > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will see a hierarchy |
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> > > of folders just like what they see in My Computer and might be asked for |
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> > > a username and password - just like in gmail. |
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> > > What's the problem with such an arrangement? |
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> > Hmmm... And how do they upload? |
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> Ahem. |
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> Allow me to introduce you to my good friend drag and his charming wife drop. |
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Nice to meet them :P |
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> Browsers ARE ftp clients and know about ftp put and get just like they know |
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> about http GET, PUT and POST. Caveat: Firefox needs a plugin and those |
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> wonderful chaps who write IE7 helpfully removed this feature. Konqueror and |
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> Nautilus JustDoIt(tm). |
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Most of the users I'm serving don't even know about about Konqueror and |
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Nautilus... And if they have ever installed a firefox plugin, that is |
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the one called "Bring The Porn". |
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By they way I cannot cut away such a big part of the audience just |
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because they don't have a compliant browser. |
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> Your other option is that insanely convoluted method that phpBB forums use for |
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> file uploads. Aunt Tillie has never yet been observed to understand what the |
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> forum wants her to do with that function. |
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Egroupware has something similar to what I need, the just call it |
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FileManager: |
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"Managing files stored in the (VFS)? (virtual file system) based on |
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files, sql-db or webdav." |
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It gives the ability to upload files and stores in the database a lot of |
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useful metadata (date of upload, name of uploader, short description, |
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wether it is updated or not etc...). |