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KCFinder

A PHP-based AJAX file and media manager

Credits

Original project by Pavel Tzonkov http://kcfinder.sunhater.com

Description

KCFinder is a web-based file manager, built on a PHP backend and AJAX-powered UI. It has file upload features, path locking for different file types (when integrated within various WYSIWYG editors).

Requirements

• (server) PHP 5.3+
• (server) (optional) PHP-GD
• (client) any modern web browser
• (client) JavaScript turned on

Features

• File system manipulation (move||copy||delete files or directories)
• Thumbnail generation for images (.thumbs directory in the upload path)
• Path locking for file types - specify a path for every filetype you need to upload in a separate location (i.e. PNG,JPG,GIF stay in images directory, WAV,OGG,MP3 files in audio directory and so on, on a config-based behaviour).
• Easy (and documented) integration with a number of WYSIWYG editors (i.e. CKEditor, FCKeditor, TinyMCE etc.)
• Ajax engine with JSON responses
• Multiple files upload (does not work in IE!)
• Upload files using HTML5 drag and drop (for Firefox and Chrome only!)
• Download multiple files or a folder as single ZIP file
• Select multiple files with the Ctrl/Command key
• Clipboard for copying, moving and downloading multiple files
• Easy to integrate and configure in web applications
• Option to select and return several files. For custom applications only
• Resize uploaded images. Configurable maximum image resolution
• Configurable thumbnail resolution
• Visual CSS themes
• Multilanguage system
• Slideshow using arrow keys

Documentation

For now, the only documentation is available at the official web page, http://kcfinder.sunhater.com - will be expanded as this fork goes on, and maybe integrated in the local wiki system.

Further development

Right now, the GitHub repository serves as a branch of the original project, aiming to send patches and features upstream. If, for any reason, they will not be integrated or ignored, there is a possibility of complete forking and renaming, as it will become a full-featured fork.

Roadmap

The features I aim for right now are (not necessarily in this order):

• Image editing (crop, resize, rotate) from within the KCFinder window
• User authentication option (avoiding guest sessions as much as possible)
• Support for mounting (remote) FTP locations
• Code editing plugin with syntax highlight (enabling it to be used as a small multipurpose tool)

Repository and workflow

This repository follows the git flow model (https://github.com/nvie/gitflow) and uses Vincent Driessen's branching recommendations. Thus, the main stable branch is named master, release is prepared on release branches, active development is taking place on develop branch and feature branches are prefixed with feature/<name>. More details in Vincent's article: http://nvie.com/git-model