0.14 - 13.11.07

Installation of Postlet couldn't be simpler. All that is required is that you drop the Postlet.jar file into a directory on your webserver, and then edit an HTML page to look similar to my example page.

The following is a list of parameters (and possible values) that Postlet supports (∗ required):

• destination ∗
  This is the URL of the server side script which will accept files for upload.
• language
  The language to use for Postlet's user interface. A list of available languages is displayed on the Postlet home page. Defaults to English
• backgroundcolour †
  The colour to use for the background of Postlet, defaults to grey.
• tableheadercolour †
  The colour to use for the text of the Table Headers, defaults to black.
• tableheaderbackgroundcolour †
  The colour to use for the background of the Table Headers, defaults to grey.
• fileextensions
  A comma delimited list of file extensions to limit the display to. The first element should be a text description e.g. "Image files,jpg,bmp,gif"
• warnmessage
  Whether to show the warning message once the upload button is pressed. Possible value="true", default is false
• autoupload
  Whether to automatically upload files once they are selected (without having to press upload). Possible value="true", default is false
• helpbutton (**Versions >0.10.0**)
  Whether or not to display the "Help" button. Possible value="true", default is false
• maxthreads
  Maximum number of connections to use. Possible values 1,2,3,4,5 - Use 5 if you have a server with low traffic on a fast connection, default is 5
• endpage
  URL to take the user to once upload has completed
• helppage
  URL to show if the user clicks the help button. Defaults to http://www.postlet.com/help/
• failedfilesmessage
  Whether or not to show the popup message listing the files that failed to upload. Default is false.
• maxpixels (**Versions >0.13**)
  This is the maximum number of pixels allowed for GIF, JPEG and PNG images when uploaded. If files exceed this limit, they are resized to the set limit. Note, GIF images if resized, are uploaded as PNG images.

† Colours are 24 bit decimal numbers with the red component in bits 16-23, the green component in bits 8-15, and the blue component in bits 0-7 (0 -> Black, 16777215 -> White). Use a HEX to Decimal convertor, to convert normal HTML code colours to the required value. Or simply use the following equation: value = (red*256*256)+(green*256)+blue - where the colour is the value from 0-255 for each colour.

Getting file upload support on your server however, may be much more difficult. For this reason, I've written a very short HTML page which mimics the way that Postlet sends files to a server. It is recommended that you get file uploads to work with this first, before trying to get them to work with Postlet.

If you're still having problems, then please post a message to the forums hosted on Sourceforge.