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Description
===========

Homepage:  http://elrte.org/elfinder
E-mail:    [email protected]

elFinder is an open-source file manager for web, written in JavaScript using
jQuery UI. As you can see its creation is inspired by simplicity and convenience
of Finder program used in Mac OS X operating system.


Features
========

 * All general operations with files and folders on a remote server (copy, move,
   upload, create folder/file, rename, etc.)
 * Two types of view: list and icons
 * High performance of server and client parts
 * Multifile upload
 * Standart methods of file/group selection using mouse or keyboard
 * Context menu
 * "Hot keys" for most actions
 * Move/Copy files with Drag & Drop
 * Work with archives
 * Preview for most types of files
 * Edit text files and resize images
 * "Places" for your favorites
 * Calculate directory sizes
 * Background creation of 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


Requirements
============

Client:
 * Modern browser. elFinder was tested in Firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 7 & 8,
   Safari 4, Opera 10 and Chrome
Server:
 * Connector, at the moment there are connectors for PHP and Python
 * Image preview requires:
   - PHP: mogrify utility or GD/Imagick module
   - Python: PIL library


Documentation
=============

http://elrte.org/redmine/projects/elfinder/wiki


Authors
=======

JavaScript and PHP connector: Dmitry "dio" Levashov <[email protected]>
Python connector, testing, support: Troex Nevelin <[email protected]>
Design: Valentin Razumnyh

We hope our tools will be helpful for you.


License:
========

elFinder is issued under a 3-clauses BSD license.
elFinder uses and comes with jQuery and jQuery-UI witch are issued under
MIT and GPL licenses.


This software is available under a 3-clauses BSD license:

Copyright (c) 2009-2011, Studio 42 Ltd.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
      documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    * Neither the name of the Studio 42 Ltd. nor the
      names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
      derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Studio 42 Ltd. ''AS IS'' AND ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
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