[NTLUG:Discuss] FTP for the ignorant -or- http web page based ftp server

[Preston Hagar]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Richard <ntlug at rain4us.net> wrote:
> What projects/software would you recommend I look at to solve the need
> to have outside users fill out an email address on a webform and be
> presented with an upload dialog box where they could then upload a
> file?  Once the file is received, the email address specified would be
> notified that the upload is complete and waiting for them.
>
> I know that PHP has an 8meg file limit and so wouldn't always work.  I
> saw the Oliver project that seems to put an FTP client in the browser
> and it may be useful as a piece of the puzzle.  What other suggestions
> are there?
>
> --
> Richard
>
> _______________________________________________


WebDav as David had suggested would be worth looking into.  As another
note, however, you can increase the file limit in php by editing your
php.ini.  I have phpFileNaviagtor (which might be useful to you, I'm
not sure about the email confirmation requirement though)

http://pfn.sourceforge.net/

and it is set to allow up to 20 MB uploads.  The settings to change in
php.ini are:

post_max_size

and

upload_max_filesize

Generally, you want the post_max_size a MB or two larger than the
upload_max_filesize for overhead.

Just thought I would point that out in case you had come across some
PHP app (or wanted to write your own) and were only stopping due to
file size limitations.

Preston