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No he mean that you can select multiple files it you click browse.
eg to upload all files in a directory.

In the current PFS you need to browse and select one file. And do it again for the second file. And so on.

# donP : Not like that!
With "Multi-upload" I mean selecting more than one file (also 30-40 per time) from an explorer-like window and click one "upload" button to upload them in one turn, viewing a porcess bar while the script uploads selected files to the Server (for that reason I mentioned flash applications, like swfupload).
Actually, with the old lady, if you have to upload a very huge number of files (like the case of a gallery folder) you have to click 8 times the file input form in PFS and select files one by one, and repeat this operation till the end of your hundreds of files
Very annoying!

Last but not least, I think it would be a good thing to implement drag&drop feature (with JS/ajax) between PFS window and markitUp...

Indeed,
donP, if you need a lot of files to upload, you can use Import.

pieter:

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Indeed,
donP, if you need a lot of files to upload, you can use Import.

With Import plugin you must use FTP first (so the Cotonti CMS is not totally functional from everywhere on the web, via browser, and not even for a simple user, but only a Server-Admin with FTP account must go everytime on his own PC at home to manage files... What about if you were on holiday and you want to upload a photogallery of your travel from an Internet point? And what about if you are a simple user?)...

I think our PFS is a very very poor... a real Achilles heel for Cotonti...

Functionality-wide, the rollback has affected just a few things:

• no physical file structure, back to the old structure
• no on-the-fly resizing with SIR (Simple Image Resizer)

Though, the PFS is not the same as in Genoa, it has a better use of templates and resource strings. Probably there will be some other small enhancements.

Interesting topic here. I'm glad most of you like what I was working on.
I've been in contact with Trustmaster and concluded to rollback to PFSv1 + templates for now. I'd really like to continue work on v2 but I really don't have the time to do that at least until May.
When I said I'd leave Cotonti this was intended as a mention of absense. Right now there are some projects that need my attention which are not based on Cotonti. The one project that does use Cotonti doesn't use PFS. When working on the new PFS my main pitfall was the multi upload. I'd really like to see someone else taking on this task (uploading and adding to DB).

Concerning the physical folders, I suggest using mod_rewrite and sed_url() with callback to build fake subfolders, and putting all the actual files in the same folder, all with a random filename. File download should happen through a seperate script so you can track downloadcount and rebuild the filename.