Thanks,

That's good to know. I do mean like the feature that's in the template mod area. Screen attached :)

You say to CHMOD 777 all the directories you may want to edit via adminCP, isn't this extremely dangerous?

good god... this is an amazing idea doctor :D

Hack rating: 9/10

- miSt

10/10! this is such a great hack. thanks a lot erwin!

installed. :D


*my vote for hack of the month if it ever comes back.

Hey pretty neat, although I'll stick with CuteFTP Pro ;)

Defiantly nice for those without FTP agents.

Dang good hack Erwin. I have CuteFTP Pro also but I am going to try this out for awhile.

/me clicks install

Dark Shogun

installed it.
thank you very much, good doctor.

i prefer using smartFTP, but from work, i'm behind a firewall that prevents ftp access... but it allows http access. so i've been editing files using the engine hack, which is great, but limited. this will really help from work.
is there a way you can set it up so that you can change the chmod through this ftp?
that would be fantastic.

I use Cute ftp pro myself, im installing this one anyone, can come in handy :)

yeah, CuteFTP Pro has CuteHTML integrated, works kickass because you get a huge find/replace box :) I think I'll stick with it.

Nice job on this hack. I think a lot of people have been wanting something like this for a while ;)

It's not extremely dangerous. But there are some risks if someone can get access to your server, which should not be possible. There is no other way to edit or change files and directories in PHP.

Bear in mind that you only have to CHMOD 777 the directory and file you want editable. And if you don't want to CHMOD 777 anything, you don't have to.

Without CHMOD 777 (ie. just installing the hack as is), you can still:

1) Browse your site directories
2) Look at all your files
3) Open and view contents of all your files
4) Download files to your local hard disk
5) View, zoom in or out with image files
6) Upload files into tmp directory
7) Edit files in tmp directory
8) Create files in tmp directory
9) Delete files in tmp directory
10) Rename files in tmp directory


With CHMOD 777, you have the additional ability to:

11) Upload files in all directories
12) Edit files in all directories
13) Rename files/ directories in all directories
14) Delete files/ directories in all directories
15) Create files/ directories in all directories

But this hack is useful in itself even without CHMOD 777 anything. :)

This is also why there is a "tmp" directory that you make CHMOD 777. It stores image files temporarily to be viewed, but you can also upload files into it and edit them there.