 | Member with 601 posts. | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hertfordshire - England Experience: Advanced | |
There are a number of possible solutions here, depending on your host and your current method of uploading. Many hosts will provide a "Web Drive" type application that is basically an alias to your website. Open the app and you're looking at your site files, and you can drag and drop from your local box to the remote server and vice versa. FTP programmes also provide this sort of functionality, and you can add "Favourites" (or Bookmarks) for particular folders. This is again a simple way to D&D from local to remote. These options are fine if you just need to get the files up there without modifying any other pages (a list of download links for example).
If you need to generate a "Download Index" then things will get a bit trickier. You're going to need some sort of backend script (PHP or CGI for example) to go through the folder and create the links on the fly.
The other alternative, if you don't mind who gets access to the files and don't care what the listing page looks like, is to set the access privileges on the download folder to public read only, and don't include an index page. When someone goes to the download folder (links should go to the folder, and not a file within it) the server will generate a list of files for you. It's not the prettiest of things, but it's functional and effective as a quick fix.
Hope that helps, but if you have any other questions or problems then drop us a line...
Danny
__________________
"An Apple a day keeps the Gatesy at bay" |
