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Overview about ElFinder
Ha Nguyen
May 4, 2023
[ FILE MANAGER]
Are you looking for a open-source file manager?
– Elfinder is a web-based file manager that allows users to manage files and folders on a server through a user-friendly interface. It can be integrated into various web applications.
– Elfinder supports a wide range of features, including file uploading, creating folders, moving files, renaming files, editing files, copying files, deleting files, and more. It also provides a variety of customization options, including custom CSS, configurable context menus, and multiple language support.
– Elfinder is built using open-source technologies such as PHP and jQuery, and it is released under a free software license, making it accessible to developers and users alike. The file manager can be easily extended with additional plugins, enabling users to customize the functionality according to their specific needs.
– Overall, Elfinder is a versatile and reliable file manager that can simplify the process of managing files on a server for both developers and end-users.
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
- Branches
- Features
- Requirements
- Installation
- Downloads
- Demo Sites
- FAQs
- 3rd Party Connectors
- 3rd Party Volume Drivers
- 3rd Party Themes
- Support
- Authors
- License
Branches
- master – Main development branch
- 2.1-src – 2.1 development branch, auto build to 2.1 on commit
- 2.1 – 2.1 nightly build branch
Features
- Usability like the MacOS Finder or Windows Explorer
- Mobile friendly view for touch devices
- 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, SFTP, Box, Dropbox, GoogleDrive and OneDrive volume storage drivers
- Support AWS S3, Azure, Digital Ocean Spaces and more with League\Flysystem Flysystem driver
- Cloud storage (Box, Dropbox, GoogleDrive and OneDrive) drivers
- Background file/folder upload with Drag & Drop HTML5 support
- Chunked file upload for large file
- Upload directly to the folder
- Upload form URL (or list)
- List and Icons view
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Standard methods of file/group selection using mouse or keyboard
- Move/Copy files with Drag & Drop
- Drag & Drop to outside by starting drag with alt/option key press
- 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, movie files
- Easy to integrate with web editors (elRTE, CKEditor, TinyMCE)
- Flexible configuration of access rights, upload file types, user interface and other
- Extensibility by event handling of backend and client side
- Simple client-server API based on JSON
- Supports custom information in info dialog
- Configuable columns of list view
- Supports custom CSS class function for the custom folder icon
- Connector plugin
- AutoRotate: Auto rotation on file upload of JPEG file by EXIF Orientation.
- 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.
- For more details, see the Changelog
Requirements
jQuery / jQuery UI
- jQuery 1.8.0+
- jQuery UI 1.9.0+
- Required: draggable, droppable, resizable, selectable, button and slider
- Recommend: sorter (To make sortable the List column and the Places)
However, we recommend newest version.
Client
- Modern browsers both of desktop or mobile. elFinder was tested in newest Chrome, Edge, Firefox, IE and Opera
- Caution: Web App mode (“apple-mobile-web-app-capable” meta tag) on iOS is not work perfectly in elFinder
Server
- Any web server
- PHP 5.2+ (Recommend PHP 5.4 or higher) And for thumbnails – GD / Imagick module / convert(imagemagick) require
- Recommend PHP 7.1 or higher to supports non-ASCII character of file path/name on the Windows server
Installation
Builds (compressed)
- Download and unzip one of the builds below to your PHP server
- Rename /php/connector.minimal.php-dist to /php/connector.minimal.php
- Load /elfinder.html in your browser to run elFinder
Source (uncompressed)
- Clone this repository to your PHP server
- $ git clone https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder.git
- Rename /php/connector.minimal.php-dist to /php/connector.minimal.php
- Load /elfinder.src.html in your browser to run elFinder
Installer
- Setup elFinder 2.1.x nightly with Composer
Downloads
Stable releases (Changelog)
- elFinder 2.1.61
- elFinder 2.0.9 (deprecated)
Nightly builds
- elFinder 2.1.x (Nightly)
Demo sites
2.1.x Nightly
- https://studio-42.github.io/elFinder/ (with CORS)
FAQs
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
3rd party connectors
- ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core / .NET Standard
- Java Servlet
- JavaScript/Efw
- Nodejs
- Python
- Ruby/Rails
3rd party Volume Drivers
- League\Flysystem (PHP) (for elFinder 2.1+) driver for the Flysystem
3rd party Themes
Hint: How to load CSS with RequireJS?
- lokothodida/elfinder-theme-moono
- lokothodida/elfinder-theme-windows-10
- RobiNN1/elFinder-Material-Theme
- StudioJunkyard/elfinder-boostrap-theme
3rd party Integrations
- Django
- Drupal
- Laravel
- Roundcube
- Symfony
- Tiki Wiki
- WordPress
- XOOPS
- Yii
- Zenphoto
Support
- Homepage
- Wiki
- Issues
- dev@std42.ru
Authors
- Current main developer: Naoki Sawada hypweb+elfinder@gmail.com
- Chief developer: Dmitry “dio” Levashov dio@std42.ru
- Maintainer: Troex Nevelin troex@fury.scancode.ru
- Developers: Alexey Sukhotin, Naoki Sawada hypweb+elfinder@gmail.com
- Icons: PixelMixer, Yusuke Kamiyamane, Icons8
We hope our tools will be helpful for you.
License
elFinder is issued under a 3-clauses BSD license.
- License terms
You can check more on https://github.com/Studio-42/elFinder
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