Coming soon: vB-Ftp
 

vB-ftp will allow you to set up a public ftp server, and share it via a web based interface.

The idea came from all the time ive spent at anime sites that had community ftp servers. It was hard to manage these servers, due to ftp acounts begin shared and people with loose lips that leaked passwords.

I thought, why not do it through the boards usergroups?.

vB-ftp will allow you to set up multiple ftp acounts that are tied to usergroups.

Basicly on the ftp server you set up multiple acounts, one with all access others with limited, tie these ftp accounts to certain usergroups via the admin cp. Then when a member gose to ftp.php to log into your ftp server there ftp account is determanded by usergroup. They never have to know/use your ftp passwords/usernames!.

The whole hack will be templated prowered, and will support ftp upload/download/delete actions (all controled with perrmissions). I may add chmod and other goodies later on but decided not to include them for intial release because I dont think members need these options anyway.

so, thoughts? :D

Sounds kinda cool. Will you be releasing this once it's finished? :D

Heh I guess he will, tigga, that's why he's announcing it :)

Anyways, sounds good Brad, I'll look forward to seeing it released.

definitely sounds interesting.

Great idea. Looking forward to it!

thinking about this a little bit, would it be possible to add file validation by admins before something is visible to any users through the admin cp.

You mean attachment moderation? That's a built-in feature.

since this is an addon, attachment moderation isnt built in.
But just for you;),
A forum user uploads a file using this system, say it's called sp.zip.
Until the file sp.zip is approved for public downloading by an admin or anyone else with access to the admin cp, the file is not able to be downloaded and not shown on the download page.
Once the file is approved, assuming a tmp directory is being used (or a variable set, visible, not visible), it is moved to the proper ftp folder and a user with the proper user group permissions is now able to download sp.zip.
hope that sort of cleared it up for you.

I was talking about vBulletin.

Its doable, but the only way I can think of doing it is storing the files in the db until they are vailadated. Once vaild vbulletin will upload the files to the ftp server.

The idea is to have the ftp on a server other then vBulletin's, to avoid eating up the forums bandwidth. :)