Simple File Management on Your Server

Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Technical

It all started when I was sick of free services that offered to host photos for you. They all had a catch. Flickr could still be considered if you solely wanted something to display some photos in your blog. However, the process of uploading to posting wasn’t that quick either. I wanted something lighter..

So I found File Thingie, a small file manager written in PHP. It’s free for non-commercial user. Simply set the folder in which it works with, and upload it. No installation required, sweet. I really liked it’s lightness, but I still felt there were room for improvement. This is mainly due to the fact that I want to upload photos, so a feature that previews them would come in handy. In short, here’s a list of the modifications made to File Thingie:

  • Updated theme - sorry if it doesn’t suit your taste
  • Supports multiple users
  • Previews for images (gif, jpg, png)
  • Separated the CSS so it loads a little faster

There’s one more feature that I have yet to implement: auto resizing for uploaded images. That would make it the perfect tool to quickly upload photos for your blog. There’s a demo version here. Login with the username and password “demo1″ or “demo2″. (User: demo1, pass: demo1; user: demo1, pass: demo2).

I sort of wonder why the heck I did those stuff above. Wordpress has a lovely plugin that allows you to easily upload photos, and I just realized that Andreas has another thingie called the Gallery Thingie. I’m pretty busy at the momment, so I’d release the codes for my modded File Thingie when I finish it up properly and get permission from Andreas.

Download away

Here’s the download linkie: http://jnls.net/files/filethingie.zip. Enjoy!

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Permalink | July 27th, 2006

5 Responses to “Simple File Management on Your Server”

  1. Jinny Says:
    July 29th, 2006 at 9:13 am

    Sweet, looks interesting :)

  2. Lee Says:
    September 12th, 2006 at 11:11 am

    This is exactly what I’ve been combing the net for, is there any way I could get this mod from you? It would be immensely helpful.

  3. Jonathan Ng Says:
    September 12th, 2006 at 11:29 am

    Hm, I realized I forgot to post the source for download.. I think it was because I was still awaiting official approval from the original author.. but anyway, post updated with download link, original author’s copyrights still apply!

  4. Paul Says:
    January 14th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

    Hey Jonathan - great work. I found this page while searching for modified versions of File Thingie. Have you got any idea how an upload status bar (or percent text) could be added to File Thingie? People keep giving up when uploading large files as there is no way of knowing if anything is happening!

  5. Jonathan Ng Says:
    January 14th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

    That will probably need some PHP server side script to check how much the client has uploaded - no idea how to do that though, :p

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