Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

The new and completely rewritten File Thingie is online and if you've been using it you should grab a copy. File Thingie is a small file manager written in PHP. You upload it to your webserver and use it as a simple substitution for your FTP program. You can upload, rename, delete, move, edit files directly from your browser. You can also use it if you have a friend who needs to be able to upload files to one folder, but you don't want to give him your FTP login.

The new version of File Thingie has many changes:

• Support for uploading multiple files at once
• Support for multiple users (with individual directories)
• Control access to files based on black- or whitelists
• Duplicate (copy) files
• CSS customization made simpler. Now you can only change colours. You can still change the CSS manually if you wish (it is at the bottom of the file)
• Much, much, much improved user interface
• Leaner code, easier to hack. Setup section smaller

One of my main goals was also to strip a bunch of features from File Thingie which I felt was bloated.

• Multilingual support has been removed. It was a real pain to maintain. I'm unsure if it'll make it back in future releases. You should e-mail me if you have an opinion
• Sorting is now based on file name only
• View source and W3C validation is gone.
• Checking file types using MIME is gone. It never worked properly anyway
• Adding your own logo to File Thingie is gone
• Help page from within File Thingie no longer exists. There is a fuller online documentation instead

Did I kill your favourite feature? Or did you find a bug? This is a complete rewrite and there is bound to be some small bugs. E-mail me at andreas [at] solitude [dot] dk if you have complaint, comments, praises and so on.

After three years with no updates the most downloaded file on this domain will get a much needed update before 2007 begins. The feature list will change a bit, some features will disappear (multilingual support is the biggest) while some much requested features have been added (multiple uploads, multiple users). The real difference though is that the interface has gotten a complete overhaul. To facilitate this the code has been rewritten from scratch. Not a single line of code has been re-used from the old v. 1.41 and the result is a much more robust system that will be easier for users to modify. And it looks nicer too (although not much):

Look for it before New Year's. It's going to be sizzling hot.