[Typo3-dev] Uploading many files. Zip it?

[Stig N. Færch]

Hi all,

Sometimes when you have to upload several files to the fileadmin, I find 
the file upload system too annoying.
Unless I missed something, you'll have to select each an every file you 
which to upload. Now if you want to upload - let's say - 23 files it's a 
very inconvenient/cumbersome way to do it.

1. suggestion:
You might not like it, because it's probably only IE compatible.
But the easiest way to many users, would be a drag-and-drop 
functionality, where you can drag from a folder in windows directly to 
your browser window. I think this could be accomplished in ActiveX. At 
least I have seen ActiveX examples of being able to browse your locale 
harddrive in the internet browser window, then mark the files you want 
to copy and drag-and-drop them to an upload field.
I don't think could be accomplished by FireFox or whatever, - but you 
are welcome to prove me wrong :-)

2. suggestion:
Most people should be able to zip some files, - if not - they should be 
able to learn it.
This idea is, that when you are in the fileadmin, you click at the 
folder icon and instead of choosing upload files, you choose 'extract 
zipfile'. Then you choose the zip file from your computer locally and 
it's decompressed in the selected folder.

Of course there might be some ftp-browser extensions for Typo3 that does 
something like this. But I think we need an integrated and simple 
solution for Typo3 that every be-user should be able to use.

What do you think?

Best Regards,
Stig N. Færch