FTP on my Website

Hi,

I may be in well over my head here but hopefully one of you experts could lead me in the right direction!

I work for a digital print company which has our own FTP server that clients can upload their artwork to and we retrieve across our network. A lot of the time however is spent explaining to clients how to upload to our FTP. Some use Windows so they can use Internet Explorer and others are Mac users who have to use FTP software such as Fetch, Transmit, Cyberduck etc. and trying to give out login details over the phone often results in errors because of spelling, missing dots and the likes.

I am currently rebuilding our website and would like to add some kind of FTP functionality where clients can securely upload files to our ftp easily without any other software or need for usernames and passwords. By the way, our webspace is hosted by another company, not our own server if that's important. I have seen plenty of companies such as YouSentIt offering services such as SiteDrop but that's going to cost us nearly $60 per month for the privilege and seems a bit of a waste when we have our own FTP.

If anyone can help I would be really grateful!

Regards, Jon

Welcome to Dev Shed.

You can create ftp scripts to add to your website that allow for users to upload files. However, for this, you need to make sure the script is done correctly and that you only accept certain files and such... You can probably even download scripts from hotscripts.com or other such sites.

Thanks for your quick response. I unfortunately haven't got a clue about creating scripts! I can open them, identify certain parts and make changes if necessary but that's about it, I'm a total novice. I had a look on hotscripts.com but what kind of script should I be looking at, ASP, PHP, Java?

Depends on what can be used on the server for your webhost. I always host with companies that support PHP.

If you're unsure, first step would be to find out from your webhost what they support. They very well may support any. If you need help creating a script, post back what your webhost supports, and I'll have a mod move this to the appropriate forum.

That's great, thanks for your help. I'll let you know in a day or so when I manage to get through to someone!

You may not need to actuall call them. Most webhosts offer a page that display in detail what they offer. Whether they support PHP, ASP, etc.