FileZ
General points
FileZ is an application developped by the Avignon University. It provides a way to upload and manage files you want to share through a web interface and unique URLs (http), inspired by the perl/mod_perl application filex.
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| Main interface | Download page |
Uploading files
The main web interface is the access point of the file’s owner (so called “owner”), who can :
- Choose a file to upload
- Choose the date when the file begins to be available. (default value is today. It can be changed by setting the parameter in inc/config.inc.php )
- Choose the date when the file becomes no more available (default value is three days after the start date. It can be changed by setting the parameter in inc/config.inc.php)
- Choose the notification status : you can choose to be notified by email when a user downloads your file, or not.
Sharing files
After uploading a file the application shows the URL where it is available. The file’s owner choose the people he wants to share the file (so called “users”) with and indicate this URL to them (with email, irc, jabber, whatever he wants).
The users can only download the file by using this URL.
The owner shares this url at his own risk : knowing this generated URL is sufficient to download the matching file.
Managing uploaded files
If the owner has uploaded at least one file, the web interface displays a dashboard which for each file shows file name and availability dates.
Furthermore, following actions are available for each file from this dashboard :
- deleting the file
- renewing file’s availability (one day per clic, until a limit set by the administrator)
- displaying informations about the file (size, number of downloads, and the URL to share with the users)
- setting the notifications
For further details, see the “Documentation” section below.
Documentation
Roadmap
| Fonctionnality/VERSION | Date |
| Version 2.0 | january 2010 |
| Version 1.2 | 13/02/2008 |
| Version 1.1 | 25/01/2008 |
| Version 1.0 | 05/12/2007 |
| Ergonomic impovements | Coming soon… |
| FTP support | Coming soon… |
| Notifications for downloaders | Coming soon… |
| Download password | Coming soon… |
