django-bfm 0.2b

Basic Django File Manager with multifile uploads, live file status, and file deleting.

Features

• Multifile Uploads (Open File Dialog)

• Live Upload Status report (Multiple files, One file)

• File browsing (Parent directory, Child directory)

• Directory support

• No external dependencies, lightweight

• Looks like django admin (extends admin template)

Requirements

• Modern browser - BFM relies on a bunch of HTML5 features.

• Django 1.3 (Not tested with 1.2 and below)

Usage/Install

• Install it with either of:

  • pip install django_bfm

  • easy_install django_bfm

  • You can also put django_bfm directory directly into your project directory, if you want.

• Add following to INSTALLED_APPS in your project settings.py.

  'django_bfm',

• Add following to urlpatterns in urls.py

  url(r'^files/', include('django_bfm.urls')),

Settings

Variables in settings.py, that influence behavior of BFM. Wiki has more extensive explanation, so you may want to look at it.

• BFM_MEDIA_DIRECTORY (if not set, then MEDIA_ROOT is used) - absolute path to directory, where uploaded files are.

• BFM_MEDIA_URL (may use MEDIA_URL as value) - Let’s BFM to construct clickable links to files.

• BFM_FILES_IN_PAGE (default - 20) - integer. Tells BFM, how much files to show in one page.

• BFM_COUNT_DIR_CONTENTS (default - False) - boolean. Tells BFM, if it should count files in directory and show them as directory size.

• LOGIN_URL - user will be redirected there if not logged in.

Things to note

• You must be logged as staff user to use file manager

• If you’re not logged in, then you will be redirected to login page at settings.LOGIN_URL

• It’s young project

Tested Browsers

• Chromium 15

• Midori 0.4.0

• Chrome 13

• Firefox 6