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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.

Contents

• Features
• Requirements
• Installation
• Downloads
• Demo Sites
• FAQs
• 3rd Party Connectors
• 3rd Party Volume Drivers
• Support
• Authors
• License

Features

2.0.x

• All operations with files and folders on a remote server (copy, move, upload, create folder/file, rename, etc.)
• High performance server backend 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
• 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

2.1.x

• More High performance server backend and light client UI
• Connector plugin
  • AutoResize : Auto resize on file upload.
  • Normalizer : UTF-8 Normalizer of file-name and file-path etc.
  • Sanitizer : Sanitizer of file-name and file-path etc.
  • Watermark : Print watermark on file upload.
• Folder upload with Chrome
• Chunked file upload
• Upload directly to the folder
• Creating the archive by specifying the file name
• Direct extraction to the current working directory (you do not want to create a folder)
• Supports Dropbox.com© (Configurable & As network volume)
• Supports custom information in info dialog
• Configuable columns of list view
• Supports custom CSS class function of tree view

Requirements

Client

• Modern browser. elFinder was tested in Firefox 12, Internet Explorer 8+, Safari 6, Opera 12 and Chrome 19

Server

• Any web server
• PHP 5.2+ (for thumbnails - mogrify utility or GD/Imagick module)

Installation

Builds (compressed)

1. Download and unzip one of the builds below to your PHP server
2. Rename /php/connector.minimal.php-dist to /php/connector.minimal.php
3. Load /elfinder.html in your browser to run elFinder

Source (uncompressed)

1. Clone this repository to your PHP server

   $ git clone https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder.git
   

2. Rename /php/connector.minimal.php-dist to /php/connector.minimal.php

3. Load /elfinder.src.html in your browser to run elFinder

Downloads

Stable releases

• elFinder 2.0.3
• elFinder 2.1.1

Nightly builds

• elFinder 2.0.x (Nightly)
• elFinder 2.1.x (Nightly)

Demo sites

2.0

• http://elfinder.org/ (rc1)
• http://hypweb.net/elFinder-nightly/demo/2.0/ (2.0.x Nightly)

2.1.x Nightly

• http://studio-42.github.io/elFinder/ (with CORS)
• http://hypweb.net/elFinder-nightly/demo/2.1/

FAQs

Which version of elFinder should I use?

• 2.0.x if you want to use 2.0 with legacy connectors.

• 2.1.x if you want to try the experimental (bleeding edge, but connector is PHP only).

Should I use elFinder builds (compressed) or source (uncompressed)?

For debugging and development, use the source. For production, use builds.

How do I integrate elFinder with CKEditor/TinyMCE/elRTE/etc...?

Check out the wiki for individual instructions.

The procedure of language files created or modified?

You can create or modify the language file to use translation tool. Please refer to the pull request the results to the respective branch.

• 2.1 branch translation tool
• 2.0 branch translation tool

3rd party connectors

• Python
• Django
• Ruby/Rails
• Java Servlet
• Laravel

3rd party Volume Drivers

• League\Flysystem (PHP) (for elFinder 2.1+)

Support

• Homepage
• Wiki
• Issues
• Forum
• [email protected]

Authors

• Chief developer: Dmitry "dio" Levashov [email protected]
• Maintainer: Troex Nevelin [email protected]
• Developers: Alexey Sukhotin [email protected], Naoki Sawada [email protected]
• Icons: PixelMixer, Yusuke Kamiyamane

We hope our tools will be helpful for you.

License

elFinder is issued under a 3-clauses BSD license.

Copyright (c) 2009-2012, Studio 42
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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      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.

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