SCANU's vBFinder - A Web File Manager directly on your admincp! [AJAX]
 

This modification integrates elFinder project in the vbulletin admin control panel. This let you access your site files directly from admincp without the need of a FTP client like FileZilla. It will be a lot easier when you'll need to change some files or update/install a mod!
This is the official description of elFinder: elFinder is an open-source file manager for web, written in JavaScript using jQuery UI. Creation is inspired by simplicity and convenience of Finder program used in Mac OS X operating system.

• All operations with files and folders on a remote server (copy, move, upload, create folder/file, rename, etc.)
• High performance server beckend and light client UI
• Multi-root support
• Local file system, MySQL, FTP volume storage drivers
• Background file upload with Drag & Drop HTML5 support
• List and Icons view
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Standard methods of file/group selection using mouse or keyboard
• Move/Copy files with Drag & Drop
• Drag and Drop of entire folders! (only in Chrome)
• Archives create/extract (zip, rar, 7z, tar, gzip, bzip2)
• Rich context menu and toolbar
• Quicklook, preview for common file types
• Edit text files and images
• "Places" for your favorites
• Calculate directory sizes
• Thumbnails for image files
• Easy to integrate with web editors (elRTE, CKEditor, TinyMCE)
• Flexible configuration of access rights, upload file types, user interface and other
• Extensibility
• Simple client-server API based on JSON
• And even more!

Live Demo

1. Download vBFinder_0.1.zip from attachments
2. Extract the archive
3. Upload the product "product-findex.xml" in your admincp
4. Upload to your vbulletin folder the content of the upload folder
5. Set admin permissions per admin otherwise you won't see it, go to Admincp->Usergroups->Administrator Permissions
6. That's done! This will be the last time that you need a FTP client to install a mod :)

This should work in every vBulletin version (even vB3) but it has been tested just on 4.2.1 so let me know in a reply :)


Exsisting translations of elfinder will be available in the next version
Please post your product translation in a reply so everyone can uses it.


Folder uploading works just in Chrome since other browsers don't have this feature.
This is not 100% tested use at your own risk!

PLEASE VOTE THIS MOD FOR MOTM CLICK HERE, AND CLICK MARK AS INSTALLED

To get support:

1. Mark this mod as Installed
2. Copy/Pasted errors or screenshots
3. URL/link to site

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Change log

- 0.1 First beta release on Vbulletin.org (incomplete)
- 0.2 Added adminstrator permissions per admin

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This looks sweeeeet :D I give it a try....

I hope it works since to be honest i tried it just with localhost site and vBulletin 4.2.1 :)

Does this work for nginx?

Yes it should, the officile site use nginx :)

Just a quick question (sorry if it's a novice question) How does this know your login details for your cPanel?

No problem, by the way it doens't need them :)