ftp uploads to a subdomain...

[jen]

Hello,

I was hoping someone might be able to help me...

I would like to integrate some kind of ftp transfer section to www.dpi-print.com which would allow our customers to transfer artwork to our 'general' subdomain without downloading an ftp client - would the uploads module do this or is there some other way of achieving this? It would only need one username and password which we could give out to our customers.

It could be just to upload to our 'general' subdomain for the smaller jobs - one username, one password... Although at present bigger customers get their own subdomain to transfer files to - could this also be included - with different usernames and passwords...?

To let you see what kind of system we're after please see http://www.croxsons.co.uk/ - the section is 'supply your files here'

If there is anyway also that it could send us an email to let us know that the artwork had been uploaded that would be brilliant - although it's easy enough to ask people to send us one so this isn't really a necessary requirement.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,
Jen

[Dee]

Seems you need the Uploads module in combination with FrontendUsers and CustomContent.
A notificiation E-mail function is included in Uploads.

Regards,
D

[jen]

Thanks Dee!

I'll try this...

Before I do, do you (or does anyone) know if the uploads module uploads to the same ftp place as the site is or whether it can be configured to allow transfer to our subdomains?

Also, would it allow our customers to upload several files to a folder with their name on (or somehow within something that would separate their files from someone uploading theirs at the same time)?

We currently have to tell our customers to put it into a file we have made for them under httpdocs as we cannot rename this to 'put your files here' or similar... Can the uploads module be pointed towards 'httpdocs' in our 'general' subdomain to make things easier for them.

Rather than a simple 'browse' and 'upload' function - is there a way of integrating some kind of ftp client within our site. We don't mind if customers have access to other files of our 'general' subdomain as we clear it regularly and if someone wants their files not to be seen we sent up a separate subdomain for them...

We sometimes get customers transferring files of 150mb +. Can the uploads module cope with files of this size?

Sorry for so many questions, I'm just trying to work out if it'll be the right thing to try before I do as there's a chance I might screw up the whole site... I'm a bit of a novice at this.

Many thanks,
Jen

[Dee]

Using the Uploads module the files will not be uploaded using FTP but using a "'browse' and 'upload'" web form. If you want to use FTP for the uploads (I wouldn't recommend FTP for anything else than anonymous downloads for safety reasons - FTP passwords are sent over the internet unscrambled) then you would have to setup/use FTP server software on the server.

Although 150+ MB is quite a lot for a web upload it shouldn't be a problem - you would probably have to change some php.ini settings to allow uploads that large.

In the Uploads module you define categories - each category has a path relative to the uploads/ folder (on that CMSMS install), this is where the files will be uploaded.

Regards,
D

[jen]

Thanks for the quick response...

I think I'll have a go - it certainly sounds like a more desirable solution than our current method. Many thanks for the advice.

Cheers,
Jen