About
The Sandbox is the web developer's playground. It is a single directory
filemanger that is designed to be extremely lightweight, allowing a
developer to quickly write PHP files without having to go through the
trouble of using complex filemanagers with oversimplified editors like
CPanel's filemanager. Many of the filemanagers that exist today are
complex and bloated for the purpose of quickly editing a test file.
However, this is because they aim to be powerful by supporting multiple
directories and allowing users to perform complex tasks. The Sandbox is
an alternative to such filemanagers. Using a single-directory system,
the sandbox can allow you to quickly write a PHP script, upload a file,
and perform multiple other tasks within a directory you specify. It
uses JavaScript whenever it can, so the interface is extremely fast and
light-weight. Error checking is built in. For the web developer who is
away from his or her home development computer, this is the perfect way
to work on programming projects. Currently, it sports a powerful file
editor with autosave support, the ability to create, upload, rename,
CHMOD, copy, and delete files, as well as some other functions.
Information
A server with PHP 4+ is required. A server with PHP 5+ is nicer.
Current Version: .95
SECURITY WARNING
The current version of the Sandbox does NOT contain any built in
security. There is no login system, etc. All of the files in the
directory that you set the Sandbox to work in are completely open to
the public (should they know where those files are). This is incredibly
dangerous, so please take care to use this on a test system only. If
you do use it on your normal website, the best advice I can give you is
to set a password to the entire Sandbox folder. This will prevent users
from accessing your files. In the future, some kind of login system is
planned for the Sandbox.
The Sandbox has built-in measures for checking to see if a user with
malicious intent is trying to edit outside of the directory specified.
I have not tested the integrity of this feature, however.