For the longest time we’ve been sending clients to raw web directories. And as much as we all love unadulterated black San-Serif fonts, horizontal rules with a bevel, and underlined reflex blue links – It just didn’t scream professionalism. So after I tired of hacking away at full fledged file managers trying to bend them into something simple and easy to understand, I decided to code my own. One feature at a time I slowly banged out a web application that could make any web folder transparent to the public.
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Features Overview
The intention of GlassFolder was never to replace full fledged file management web application. GlassFolder is supposed to create a window through which visitors can easily view and navigate specific web folders.
- Complete directory viewer with a directory tree side panel
- Thumbnails – automatically generate thumbnails for common web-ready image files (jpg, gif & png)
- View Code as Plain Text – allows you to specify certain file types to be viewed as plain text (great for sharing html, php or css code without it trying to execute or render)
- User Log In - With custom access for each user (User management allow you to limit individual user’s folder access and admin privileges)
- Themes - send people a link that specifies what theme to use (The dark theme really makes thumbnails from a photo shoot pop)
- Basic File Management - create folders, upload files and rename/delete multiple files/folders at once.
- Config, Theme and CSS files make GlassFolder highly Customizable
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Demo
username: demo
password: password
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Screenshots
Default Theme (With Admin Privileges)
Dark Theme (No Admin Privileges)
Compact Theme
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Download
This is just an early beta so let me know if you spot any bugs, or if you have any suggestions. (glassfolder@mattrohland.com)
GlassFolder – Most Recent Beta:
Build 002 (Zip File)
This version of GlassFolder is pre-configured for those who do not wish to use the login system and admin features (upload, delete, rename…). Essentially this configuration makes GlassFolder a public folder VIEWER.
Build 002 Alternate (Zip File)
This version of GlassFolder is pre-configured for those who wish to control entry to a folder through a login system. The default username is admin and the default password is password. Initially this user has admin abilities (upload, delete, rename…) but this can be changed through the built in user manager. (The features in this configuration are less tested and sparsely documented, but feel free to leave a comment or email me any questions.)
GlassFolder – Previous Releases:
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From some of the emails I’ve been sent it seems that most people that want a simple file viewer would still like basic admin controls to accompany the viewer. The next build will include the following new features:
-A more compact theme.
-Basic file uploads.
-As well as a batch renaming and deleting feature.
I’m also thinking through the best method of moving multiple files and folders. Right now I’m considering a virtual clipboard.
I just tried your PHP directory file browser, and I think it’s great! I’ve been looking for something like it for quite some time now. The only thing I really wish it had was the ability to click on a file and get linked directly to it.
Also, if you are going to add the uploading feature, I think there should be two levels of accounts: an admin and a user, so you can allow people access to view, but not upload.
Hope I get to see Build 2 very soon!
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Hi Matt,
Took some time playing with this. Looked like a great solution to make things a bit nicer on the net! I’m getting something funky happening with the stylesheet. PHP, and the listing is working, but styles do not display. Web Inspector (Safari) shows it’s there, and I also tried a absolute link to the style sheet. Same is true in Firefox.
The odd thing is when I imported the page from my server into CSSEdit, then extract and override the stylesheet THEN change anything in the sheet it flips into styles. One more thing I noticed is when enable/disable styles in Safari there is a ‘glitch’ where an li element shifts from being too high (overlapping the text above it) when enabled to displaying correctly when disabling css. Last, there are a few pixels of images to the left of the unordered lists….. its like there’s a glitch in the stylesheet somewhere, but I’m not sure as to where.
I feel like I missed something obvious, but wanted to check since its early. Using the build posted today. Also, I think your user/non user links might be backwards.
Thanks, Blair
Nice!
Really Good one Matt.