In this chapter we will go over the concept of allowing people to share files. We will specifically be focused on sharing images, but will build the system so that we can easily set it up to share videos, audio files, resume, or any other type of binary file. In addition to that we will build the concept of having user-specific sets of files as well as content that can be shared among many users.

In order to create the file management software for our website, we need to consider topics such as a single or multi-file upload, file system management, and image manipulation in the case of photos. In addition to this we will cover creation of pages for displaying the user's photo albums, their friends' photo albums, as well as a few data management pages. This chapter will create a basic framework from which you can easily grow to suit the file management needs of just about any community site.