[leflyCode]

Ok my company revolves around the use of an FTP.

Lately we have been dealing with many customers who are not very tech savy. We have been using a XEROX print buyer front end webservice that we have been hosting in our shop. But it is just not user friendly for "one time or pass through clients."

Basically what I am looking for is a a way for clients to upload to an FTP through a website. Not through a program, or the windows FTP utility because that seems to be too hard for some people to use. I don't know why but it is. Something literally they go to a website, hell even if I can host it that'd be great, and they don't need a software client. Just a web page pops up that they can browse for their files and then submit them.

I don't care if it is a service another company does, or software I have to buy... I just need to make it happen. I have a feeling it is most likely something I will need to have a site programmer make.

Thanks in advance!

[beriarele]

Here's a good place to start:

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_...=web+based+ftp

I used one in the past that I really like, but for the life of me can't remember the name. I used it on a forum I ran so users could upload things to the site. It worked really well, was easy to set up, and free. There are similar projects on sourceforge.

[leflyCode]

Thank you I will have a look

[kesFockplek]

It's very simple to make a php upload script using form based input (brouse file, click upload) this can then put the file pretty much where ever you'd like (with further scripting).

The concept took me only a few minutes to do from start to finish folling a couple of tutorials. I've since then, took the uploaded data and pushed it straight into an sql database for later use.

While my current solution is only a simple brouse upload one file job - I can't see it being a problem to upload muliple files. The only cost would be a day or so to tweak / test for beginner to get working.

This is the tut I used...

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

The main concern being security from allowing people to upload, but then you could easily make a login page, user names, passwords and have users upload to secured individual user folders.

[leflyCode]

Thank you so much for that post ecks, very helpful.

I stumbled accross sharefile.com that is fully web based and allows me to have some security, all at $119 a month. But it is very critical so I don't mind. I have the first 30 days free to try it if I don't like it then I will skip it.

I am going to try out what you posted and see if I can save us the money, we do have two powerful dell servers here and the bandwidth to host our own so i will def check it out.

Very appreciated!