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Nyfer
Nyfer

Reputation: 163

FTP upload over browser

I wanted to know, if we can create a web based application like filezilla. if yes, any information would be helpful for me. I tried searching Google, but couldn't get proper info. All I'm getting is the sites which provide this service e.g http://www.txftp.com/ Not how to go about creating such a website.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 517

Answers (2)

Deepak Keswani
Deepak Keswani

Reputation: 117

When you create web based application, this becomes http protocol, what you actually end up doing is upload and download of files over the http protocols. building the similar look and feel like Filezilla is quite easy, but achieving same performance and guarantee will be difficult.

One way to achieve this can be by writing java applets. You can use any ready made java ftp libraries to code this applet. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2003/jw-0404-ftp.html. You may have to create a policy and sign the applet so that user allows your applet to open a ftp socket connection from the applet.

In case if you are ok with HTML5, you can explore into WebSockets for the solution. http://mustafaakin.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/introducing-websocket-file-transfer/

Upvotes: 1

Sandeep Bansal
Sandeep Bansal

Reputation: 6394

There's a lot of FTP tutorials online, first look into the function that starts it all:

<?php

$ftp_server = "ftp.example.com";

// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server"); 

?>

Upvotes: 0

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