On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:47:49PM -0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > I am looking for a module that can be used as part of a web based > application which requires management of a (partial) file system. > If there is no such module I wonder if it would be interesting to add > to CPAN ? > > > In our current state operations required are > - upload new file (with a customised hook to validate it before [1]) > - download file > - rename > - delete > - merge two files (in a customised way so that will probably require > some hook or sub classing the module. [1]) > - edit file (in a customised way so this requires a hook too [1]) > > > [1] We are dealing with XML files so we'll have to edit those in some > way that makes it simple for the user. > > I saw Apache::FileManager but that is mod_perl dependent and this > application should not be. > > For uploading a file I could use CGI::Upload. > > > So my questions are: > - Is there such a module that someone could recommend ? > - If there is no such module would a generic FileManager module using > CGI be interesting on CPAN ? > - What name ? CGI::FileManager ? > - What else should such a module include ? > > > Gabor
Though it's somewhat of a distant memory to me now, I actually wrote something like this a few years ago. I vaguely remember looking at Apache::FileManager and finding it illsuited for my requirements, so I wrote something from scratch that was designed to integrate into an Apache::ASP framework. FWIW, my system included versioning with RCS, which I thought was pretty k3wl. For one existing example of a type of browser-based file manager, you might look at Lincoln Stein's Apache::MP3. I know of no others to recommend you explore. If you can create something generic, reusable and extensible, I would by +1 for having it on CPAN. "CGI::FileManager" is a fine name, but sounds very Windows 3.1 to me. How about "CGI::FileBrowser" or "CGI::FileFinder"? I will say from experience that this is a pretty big undertaking, even more so if your hope is to release something generic to CPAN. But don't let that stop you from trying! ky
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