I want people to add files through a site I have. they are big files so it can't be your standard upload file system. I don't want people to see the existing files there so I don't want to use ftp://mysite.com. There are site's like drop.io and bigfile.com that offer this service for a price, but I was wondering how easy is this to implement into a site with a simple upload button.

Just create an FTP account with access to only one folder on the site?

Login to the hosting control panel, you should be able to create a new FTP user and select what folders they can and cannot access.

But I need a way for them to upload without seeing what is already in that folder and not be able to download existing files.

You could make a FTP that is constantly changing the folder it uploads to (like once it's been accessed the FTP account changes directory).

However, I think the best method (in my view) is a browser based upload. You can change the size of the file's allowed to be uploaded in the PHP configuration file. This way you can hide the files and let them just upload one file

Originally Posted by rogem002

However, I think the best method (in my view) is a browser based upload. You can change the size of the file's allowed to be uploaded in the PHP configuration file. This way you can hide the files and let them just upload one file

For some reason I can't get files that are much bigger than 10 megs to upload even though i've increase all the relevant numbers on the php.ini/phpinfo file and restarted the server. I'll have another look at it, Maybe i've missed something.

It's just that I came across some php ftp inbuilt functions that I didn't know much about and was wondering if I could just create an uploader this way but i'm guessing this is going to be really complicated.