Uploading multiple files

Currently CKFinder does not offer this functionality.

This has my vote too, please consider adding this.

Is there a place to contribute code to help in specific situations? I actually have written a piece that uploads a zip file, unpacks it and puts it into the appropriate directories, while it's CF specific I don't know if you have different developers doing different parts of the product and whether that sort of thing is in any way helpful?

Just wanted to ask.

You can attach code here (as a single zip file), we'll definitely look at this and it may be a great help for us.
Don't worry it's CF specific, we'll translate this into other languages.

Thanks in advance!

If we wanted to add a button to the toolbar in ckfinder, is this at all possible, I am using the asp ckfinder? The reason for this is that I have located an method to select multiple files from your pc and post it all at once (up to 5mb) and display a nice progressbar while doing so (Ill get authors permission for use as it is under GNU), if I could implement this into ckfinder asp and get it working, could I contribute it to you for development into the application?

You just have to point me to the location where I am able to add more buttons and direct the main window to a new window(ie changed the window where the thumbs display).

I think lots of people using this unique piece of software would like multiple file selection and multiple file upload, I am able to provide the multiple file upload capability if I can add the button and the new frame. What I then would also add (I asked about this earlier in the post) is a new frame where you can use (lets say checkboxes) to multiple select files and then feed this to a textarea, the onus is then on the developer to use it from there?

Let me know if I can help.

(PS I'm not getting notifications of replies to my posts, any reason for this, could you email me directly by viewing my details - I have checked notify me below, before you ask)

Thanks

Are you planning to use a flash-based system?
I would wait a little, as the Flash player 10 seems to change the behavior and you might need to change the system. (also remember that you need some trick to make it work with Firefox)

The new version of CKFinder will make it easier to expand its capabilities, and knowing now what kind of features are needed is helpful to plan it properly.

no, i know about the limitations of the flash systems, im using a textarea, for multi select and an file html element to upload, but once uploading display a window to indicate progress, what i want to do is the following:

Add two buttons: multi select, multi upload (where the add,refresh are) --- IVE FIGURED THIS OUT
Add two new windows forms which replaces the thumbnail view of the ckfinder and then use these to multiple select files, (using the thumbs, checkboxes)
im still figuring this out...
the second window will basically allow you to select multiple files, populate a textarea and hidden file elements and this will then automatically fill the setfilefield command

it simpleton, but effective in getting info up, and you could replace it later with the flash based system...

So help n the last two would be great and I could email, upload the enhancements?

As I said, the new version will be easier to extend, so just outline what kind of features you need so they can be planned properly.

First one is to add custom buttons to the toolbar.
Create a custom pane with several file inputs and then show a progress bar.
Being able to modify the file pane so each file has a checkbox at its side, or some other method to allow multiple file selection

Is there anything else?

yes thats it, thank you...

Another feature I would really love to see as part of this would be auto-creation of thumbnail images. It's the one feature that we really need to use this product. When users upload their images, we would like them to be able to auto-generate thumbnail images as well, based on either a default value, or a user-entered value.

I've created a php plugin that allows you to upload multiple files if you're using an HTML5 based browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer 9.

http://code.google.com/p/ckfinder-batch-upload/

Now you can batch upload a bunch of files at once instead of one at a time!
check it out, i'd love some feedback.

Using Firefox 6 here and nothing appeared with I clicked Upload with the plugin enabled.

I'll try and get more information for you.

oh yeah, i guess I should have gave better instructions. Clicking the "upload" button like normal uses the standard upload form. To do multi-upload you have to right click on the folder you want to upload to in the navigation tree on the left. In the menu you'll see a new option to do a batch upload. That loads the HTML-5 form!

Think I have better information for you - it's a 404 because the /ckfinder/plugins/batch/form.php path is hard coded somewhere? My folder is not named that.

I'll try and find the offending reference to the path.

Is there a variable available to read from with the current script location? HTTP environment variables if not?

var html = CKFinder.ajax.load( '/ckfinder/plugins/batch/form.php?type='+ currentFolder.type +'&currentFolder='+ currentFolder);

in plugin.js

And the form action in form.php

Fixed those and it works fine.

Needs a progress bar though

Also can it not just entirely replace the single file upload panel? Yours should do a single file if required so no functionality lost. Only issue is if the browser isn't HTML 5 compliant, in which case the could fall back to the default one.

Menu item is a bit counter-intuitive.

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/

You should test this: viewtopic.php?p=58856#p58856

Yeah I saw that, thought Adobe Flash was a very strange choice given HTML 5 looks now to be the better option.

May get that installed or may work on it myself, not sure yet.

You can't get multiple upload and progress bars in IE without using flash. Maybe in IE10, but that's too far away...

Can you do it with single files?

I'm sure we could tolerate not knowing the progress of the entire job if the individual components were tracked.

Progress bars in IE require flash uploads or (I forgot to mention) some code at the server to notify back of the upload progress. You can't do it client side without any other help because Microsoft hasn't added the required objects and events.