JeevesBond — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:10:21 +0000

Sorry I didn't see this sooner!!! I might be able to point you in the right direction with a few things, although I would say you should just setup what's easy then add services as you become more confident with what you have. Don't try to do it all at once: it'll take an inordinate amount of time and frustration. Particularly if you've never done something like this before.

brain wrote: (1)to have a web members area on my site so they can upload / download
files through a online php file manager using mysql for user name and password.

That's an interesting idea. You could start out using Drupal to do this (unless you decide to roll your own), it won't do what you want out of the box but with some combination of modules you should be able to get exactly the functionality needed.

I'd suggest investigating: Docs, Drupal FTP, CCK and the Filefield CCK type. Possibly also worth looking at: Asset, Attachment, Fileview, Web File Manager.

If you can get started with a reasonable Web based interface the other requirements can hopefully wait. If not you could just configure the easiest file access: probably SFTP? One fantastic solution is to use Apache+WebDAV+SVN, people can even browse WebDAV repositories in Windows Explorer! Secondly, with SVN you can set it up so every time the user saves their file it creates a new version! I think this is what the big boys use.

I had some really useful links on this, but have lost them all. I suggest you start searching around, I have successfully set this up in the past without much trouble.