Innovative ways to browse your files: PHP Navigator and eXtplorer June 2

Filed under Developers, HDA News by rampage537 | 3 comments

File Management, we’ve all been there before … Intuitively you know where everything is but there’s always that one little file, you know the one that you need most whenever it’s the most elusive thing to find. It’s like trying to find your other shoe in your room as a teenager. Your games were under the pile of clothes next to the TV, the printer was on the nightstand that used to hold your Mickey Mouse alarm clock (that you told Mom had broken and you threw away but is still secretly ticking away in your closet, yeah buddy we’ve been there). But this one file is out there somewhere probably hiding with your old tapes of the X Files. Then the next thing you know it hits you…

“I wish there was another way to do this.”

Well hell’s bell’s folks… here’s a couple! You’re thoughts on the alternatives didn’t work out the way you’ve planned so we’ve gone ahead and packaged a few for you to use (yeah we wish there were leprechauns in our machine too).

Read on for more!


PHP NavigatorPHP Navigator
PHP Navigator is a web based file manager, written in PHP and AJAX.
With XP style navigation. You will feel you are on your home system!

Features:

  • User friendly Explorer style navigation and view. Fully customizable.
  • Multi user support (need MySQL).
  • Advanced AJAX and DOM to avoid reloading of the full page.
  • gzip deflate encoding gives you rocket speed data transfer!
  • It inherits the colour scheme of your window system. See the magic of css2!
  • Thumbnail view for wbmp,jpg,png,gif.
  • Right click context menu.
  • Built in HTML editor, Code editor.
  • Keyboard shortcuts.
  • Download folder as zip.
  • Extract zip archive to current folder.
  • And the BEST OF ALL, it’s FREE!!

eXtplorereXtplorer
eXtplorer is a web-based File Manager.

The Main Features of eXtplorer are:

  • Copy/Move Files and Directories by Drag/Drop
  • Dynamic Directory Tree with on-demand loading of subdirectories
  • Edit Files (with Syntax-Highlighting thanks to EditArea)
  • Rename, Delete or Create new Files and Directories
  • Access Files through FTP or directly (using PHP) to totally overcome permission and file ownership issues
  • Upload or Download files just as you like
  • Create and Extract Archives (ZIP, Tar, Tar/GZ, Tar/BZ)
  • User Management with different permission levels like “View only” or “Edit” and “Admin”
  • Available as a component for Joomla! and Mambo.
  • And much much more….

All these features are packed into an intuitive Layout which makes working with files very easy. Thanks to the great ExtJS Javascript Library you can drag/drop folders and files, filter directories and sort the file list using various criteria.

Cheers!

The Amahi Team

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3 comments

  1. Sam Jun 2

    You know, just this past weekend I was hoping there would be a way for me to browse my file system…

    Thanks a ton! It is amazing to see the constant development for Amahi.

  2. lou1z Jun 3

    yep, those file managers are good. but, if you are serious about linux, i would give them a miss and concentrate on the cli.
    a sort of tying one’s hand behind one’s back to learn. then move onto the file managers when you are comfortable with the cli basics.

  3. BBG Mexico Jun 24

    That was wonderful information. You did a good job communicating your message. Keep up the good writing.

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