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As the title suggests, I am looking for a simple file manager script that has some form of version control system built into it.

My needs are:

  1. It needs to be web based (written in PHP using MySQL for storage)
  2. I need to be able to edit the files without moving them. (In other words if a file resides in /public_html/somedir/somefile.php , I want to be able to edit it from there without the need of creating a new project folder just to house this one file.)
  3. A basic no frills file editor will be fine, but it would be nice to have some form of syntax highlighter built in if possible.
  4. Needs to have a very basic version control system where I can add, edit, delete different versions of a file I am working on. (this is where the database comes in)
  5. Must be able to support multiple users with some sort of file locking to prevent 2 users from editing the same file at the same time.
  6. It needs to be free / open source.

Basically, all I want is a script that will allow me to login to it and present me with a list of all the files and directories located on my hosting account. I would then like to be able to select one of these files, save a copy of it to my database so I can recover it if need be, edit the file, and finally overwrite the original file with my edited version when I am done.

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Google docs does most of this...

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It doesn't do it on my server tho and I need to house the script on my server for various reasons. – alison Jul 25 '11 at 16:04
Care to elaborate why? – soandos Jul 25 '11 at 16:06
Reasons: Google will not automatically list all the files on my serveer. From what I have read, it will also not automatically places the edited files back onto my server. I really cannot talk about it's version control or multiple user features as I have not used it for that, but the first 2 reasons are enough of a deal breaker for me. Thx tho. – alison Jul 25 '11 at 16:09
approximatly how many files are we talking about? – soandos Jul 25 '11 at 16:21
best estimate would be 50,000+. I want to be able to edit ANY ASCII based file on my server, this includes all the files from any 3rd party scripts that I have on my site like fourms, blogs, CMS system, etc. As I said I want to be able to edit ANY of those files at will. – alison Jul 25 '11 at 16:36
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