FSGuide 0.6

FSGuide is a Norton Commander-clone for the web, which might be useful when you do not have shell access to your server, but want to perform various file operations. As a hosting provider, you can even give this tool to your hosting users, so they can access and modify their files through FSGuide - or you can use it yourself as a system administration tool.
Note: Due to the limitations of running scripts in server environment, you can reach only those files of the filesystem that are available to the web user (www-data or wwwrun used by Apache). In general, its much more than just the files and directories under document root!
Main features:
- user authentication (you can disable user authentication to use FSGuide without logging in)
- details of user access are configurable in a simple .ini file
- deeply customizable through its configuration file and the user.ini file, loads of peruser settings
- access control finetuning through access control lists in user ini file
- you can implement your own authentication module (eg. rdbms-based)
- two-panel display (supports sorting)
- directory bookmarks
- selecting files using checkboxes You can even "cross-copy" files between the two panels: after selecting files in both panels, just click the copy or move button - this way all the selected files are copied/moved to the other panel. If you click on the delete button, all the selected files in both panels are deleted.
- advanced file selection dialog (select files by regular expression, extension, extension group, permission, filesize, time)
- copying, moving, deleting files and directories even recursively
- renaming files or directories (only the first selected file)
- creating directories
- the file operations use no external commands (it helps multiplatform use)
- a one-line navigator on both panels. Clicking on parts of the navigator results in opening that subdirectory in the panel.
- downloading files (and optional bandwidth control mechanism)
- opening and displaying files:
- built-in detection for different filetypes (DOC, PDF, text, PHP, binary, etc.) by extension or contents
- displaying files depending on the result of the detection:
- files having .php and .inc extension are displayed using source highlight
- images files recognized by PHP are displayed as images: this helps a lot while organizing image files on a remote server (eg. if you use Windows).
- If there are no other special characters than #09 (tab), #10 (CR), #12 (page break), #13 (LF), the file is displayed as a simple textfile. The file is divided into 10000 characters long pages (you can use the "more" or "less" links to switch between pages)
- If there are other special characters in the file, or characters undefined in the ISO-8859-2 codepage, then the file is treated as a binary file. In this case the control characters, and ISO-8859-2s undefined characters (0x7f- 0x9f) are replaced with a dot (to avoid browsers displaying contents erroneously and to conform the HTML standard).
- file uploader:
- configurable number of files to upload at once
- you can configure any application to run after upload
- you can check to drop the original file when the application finishes
- file editor:
- plain text editor
- binary editor
- works under both Windows and Linux
- does not depend on third-party libraries or extensions and needs no RDBMS
- produces well-formatted, valid HTML 4.01 Transitional pages
- uses PHPs error messages to report errors of file operations (since the default messages contain all the important information about the errors). This will change in the future.
Enhancements:
- array_multisort bug fixed,
- added Spanish translation, thanks to Andres Barreto!
- advanced file compare dialog
- JavaScript confirmation before deleting files
- donations accepted through Kagi