File Sharing

[Guest_imported]

I am wanting to create a site where as part of it people can choose a folder to share files from, so anybody on the site can download from that folder, but not upload, and it needs to be secure, people should not be able to choose a person, and view their folder, it should be so that someone can do a search for a file, and if someone online has it they can download it, is there anyway to do this in php or another language?, bearing in mind i know very little php just html and js, thanks for reading.

Chris Harkness

 

[Hokey]

sure you can do it with PHP, JSP, ASP, PERL, etc.

It is quite a project though. I would probably attack it by reading a manual (or one of those self study books) on the language that you choose. I am biased to PHP, so I would probably choose PHP along with MySQL to store user settings, security settings, user rights, and possibly even file listings (but keep the files in the filesystem). If your traffic is low enough (or your server fast enough), you could handle everything including the file storage in a database.

I have set up several systems with PHP/MySQL where users files are stored in the database, but extracting the files in this way can be taxing on the server, but does make file management very very easy.