I would like to know what you think is the best web-based File Explorer to manage files in a remote server through HTTP / Web.
It would be preferable to have PHP or Flash technology, but any good suggestion would do.
More generally, how would you allow someone to manage files on a remote server with HTTP being the only open outgoing port?
I would personally look at using Ajax of some kind the EXt javascipt library has some cool tools that can do this.
In fact there is a php/Js script available under Open Source that uses Ext to do just this http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/
I have used Extplorer on a clients site to allow them to add and move files between folders on their ftp server, without having to learn ftp (think old non it people). They picked it up very easily and we just put a login page in front of it to restrict access. Works a charm and looks nice too :)
I looked around for others and as Paul mentioned, http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/ is the one I felt was the best in my search.
Others:
http://quixplorer.sourceforge.net/
http://phpwebexplorer.sourceforge.net/
As said before, extplorer is probably your best bet.
I would recommend taking a look at Relay - I started writing my own app, but gave up when I found this. It's very functional and very aesthetically smooth and clean.
Some other options:
For the ASP.NET platform, I recommend you this web file manager. It's called FileVista and it has very good features such as multiple upload and multiple download (downloads files and folders as single zip). The user interface is cool and fast thanks to AJAX. The best of all, it has advanced administration such as permissions, quota, file type restrictions and event tracking.
If you are a windows user, you might find the following php file explorer quite friendly.