The Ashes

We’ve posted before about Harald Kirschner’s excellent MooTools plugin FancyUpload which provides extensive functionality for handling file uploads. His newest update, FancyUpload v3.0, is a complete rewrite and includes a wealth of new features:

• The API with, separated uploader and file classes, allows an easy implementation in all kind of interfaces
• Events are dispatched for every step of the uploading process, to keep the interface as responsive as possible
• Progress tracks the loaded size, upload-rate, estimated time and other values for every file and for the batch as a whole
• File uploads can be stopped, restarted or removed anytime
• New Iframe-based class for multiple, asynchronous uploads without dependency on Flash
• Compatible with Flash 9 and 10 with the browse button as a transparent overlay or as an interactive image sprite
• Ability to change the upload URL and add POST/GET data on runtime, customized for every file or the whole process
• Easy to localize to your favourite language with MooTools.lang, share your translations with others.

To see the uploader in action, Harald has started a showcase of demos which provide excellent examples of the plugins capabilities

MooTools based FileManager

Piggy-backing on Harald’s work, Christoph Pojer extended it further by creating a new plugin that provides impressive file managing capabilities for your server.

• Browse through Files and Folders on your Server
• Rename, Delete, Move (Drag&Drop), Copy (Drag + hold CTRL) and Download Files
• View detailed Previews of Images, Text-Files, Compressed-Files or Audio Content
• Nice User Interface 😉
• Upload Files via FancyUpload (integrated Feature)
• Option to automatically resize big Images when uploading
• Use it to select a File anywhere you need to specify one inside your Application’s Backend
• Use as a FileManager in TinyMCE
• Provides your Client with the most possible convenience ( ;D )

The plugin is easily implemented as well:

Check out the cool demo Christoph created.