Hi!
I have been using FlashFXP for years (since the FXP days ;-). It works good, but I was always looking for the following feature:
- Make a Windows filesystem extension that creates a virtual folder (c:\FTP-Sites for example).
- Display for each FTP account in the sitemanager a virtual subfolder (map the sitemanager folder structure, c:\FTP-Sites\work-sites\client-website etc.)
- If any program accesses the folder, connect to the server and display the directory listing as virtual files.
- process the I/O operations from windows transparently (read, write, delete, create, folder actions...)
I could then install FlashFXP, add all the ftp-servers to the server manager and work with my favorite php/html/css editor directly on the server. I could also download and upload to the ftp servers with any windows tool! I could even sync servers with directory sync tools!
I know that this can be done with only moderate effort. There are even (open source) projects and libs out there that do half of the work already:
http://www.ferrobackup.com/ftpuse/
http://www.netdrive.net/
But they both map only to a drive-letter (I have more than 25 ftp servers...).
http://dokan-dev.net/en/about/ provides a file-system filter that can be programmed in any language. there is even a demo-app for c# available that maps an ftp server to a folder! but that is not the full feature set I want.
I would pay 200$ to your coffee fund if you could implement that special feature for FlashFXP. It could even be a separate module that is sold separately.
Thanks and Best Regards!
Chris
