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Navigating is done with the links to the left of the file listing. The Home link will always take you to the same position you started at when you logged in. If you are in a subdirectory an Up link will appear. This will take you one level up in the directory structure. Reload will reload the current page. This is more useful than the reload button of the browser if you have just performed an action (eg. renamed a file). Help will take you to this page and Log out will log you out out. Be sure to always log out if you are using File Thingie from a shared or public computer!
If your browser supports navigation with <link> elements you will see additional navigation. The "Home", "Help" and "Up" buttons are identical to those in the menu. "Copyright" will take you to the page with license information for File Thingie and "Author" will take you to the author's website.
To upload a file you simply click on the button next to the "upload" button (in my browser it's called "Choose", yours might be "Browse", "..." or something else). This allows you to choose a file from your harddrive you want to upload. When you have selected a file the path should be inserted into the text field. Click "Upload" and wait. If the file you are uploading is large it can take a while. You will get a green confirmation if the file was uploaded or a red error message if the file was not uploaded correctly. The file be uploaded to the directory you are currently in.
To create a directory simply type the name you you want in text field and click "Mkdir". The directory will be dreated as a subdirectory to the directory you are currently in. You will get a green confirmation if the directory was created or a red error message if it wasn't.
To rename a file or directory click the "rename" link next to the name of the file or directory you wish to rename. The name will change to a text field and an "ok" button. Type the new name in the field and click the "ok" button. Even if you click multiple rename links and change multiple names only the name next to the "ok" button will be renamed.
It is also possible to move a file with the rename field. To move a file or directory to a subdirectory in the current directory simply write the path in the text field. For example: If you want to move the file.txt to the subdirectory subdirectory simply write "subdirectory/file.txt" in the text field. If you want to move a file or directory up in the directory structure use "../". For example: If you have file.txt in a subdirectory and you wish to move it to the home directory simply write "../file.txt" in the text field. Use multiple (eg. "../../") if you want to move the file up more than one step.
To delete a file or directory simply click the "delete" link. Warning: the file will be deleted without confirmation!
You will get a green confirmation if the file was moved/renamed/deleted or a red error message if it wasn't.
If you enable it in your configuration File Thingie will allow you to view the source of HTML/CSS/PHP documents. By default it is enabled for HTML and CSS and thus you can avoid having to finding the "View Source" functionality in your browser. If you enable view source for PHP files you will get colour coded source code to help you. The view source link will show up as a link titled [src] after the file name and size.
Due to problems with earlier versions of PHP the view source function is only available for PHP versions of 4.2.0 or later. Your PHP version is 5.6.40
If it's enabled in your configuration you can edit HTML/CSS/PHP documents. It is enabled by default only for text, HTML and CSS. If you can edit a file there will be a [edit] after the file name. Clicking this will take you to the edit screen. After you are done click "Save file", or click "Cancel" if you don't want to edit the file anyway. Checking the "Convert spaces to tabs" box will convert every four spaces to a tab when the file is saved.
You will get a green confirmation if the file was saved successfully or a red error message if it wasn't.
The configurations start after the line that says: /* Setup information. Change as appropriate */
$username = "USERNAME"; Change "USERNAME" to whatever username you want to use. If you want to use BartSimpson as your username the lines should be changed to $username = "BartSimpson";. The username is case sensitive!$password = "PASSWORD"; Change "PASSWORD" to whatever you want your password to be. The password is case sensitive!$dir = "test"; Change "test" to the subdirectory you want to File Thingie to work in. The File Thingie file has to be located one step above this directory. Eg. if you want File Thingie to work in /public_html/subdirectory/ the file should be placed in /public_html/ and the line should be changed to $dir = "subdirectory";$maxsize = 100000; Change this to the maximum file size you want to allow for upload. The size is given in bytes.$showphp = FALSE; Change FALSE to TRUE if you want to allow the viewing of source for PHP files.$edithtml = TRUE; Change TRUE to FALSE if you want to turn off editing of HTML and CSS files.$edittxt = TRUE; Change TRUE to FALSE if you want to turn off editing of text files.$editphp = FALSE; Change FALSE to TRUE if you want to turn on editing of PHP files.$converttabs = TRUE; Change TRUE to FALSE if you don't want to convert tabs to spaces when editing files. In a browser it's easier to work with spaces than tabs (since the tab-key doesn't work in a text field).$phpendings = array("php", "php3", "php4", "phtml"); A list of files percieved by File Thingie as PHP files. You probably don't have to add anything.$allowedfile["jpg"] = "image/jpeg"; There is a long list of lines that looks like this. They represent all the different types of files allowed for upload. If you want to disallow a file type place two slashes (//) in front of the line (like it has been done with the two last lines). If you want to add more file types just add your own lines in this format: $allowedfile["FileEnding"] = "MIMEType";Remember that you should CHMOD the subdirectory you want to work with to 777. Otherwise File Thingie will not have permissions to upload files.. or permissions to do anything other than state "Directory is empty" often.
It is possible to quickly choose your own colours and fonts to use with File Thingie. The settings are immediately after the setup information. Each option is explained there.
When writing a font-family it is important the seperate each font with a comma. Futhermore it is vital that double quotes (") are written with a backslash infront (ie. \" and not just "). You are encouraged to always end your list with a default font-family - usually either sans-serif or serif.
The colour part of the colours and fonts only accepts hex-values. It is not possible to use decimal values or any of the keywords. Only hex-values!
If you want to modify more of the design than just the colours and fonts the stylesheet for File Thingie begins around line 350.