I use S3 Platform on php and shared hosting. S3 is not something working on your server.
But S3 is perfect not only for capacity and price of storage (I use wasabi.com, but you can use digitalocean.com, amazon or other) but it solve security problem very easy.
If your client save images in subfolder, they can be retrieved directly using their direct address, that is impossible in S3.
So in case your client need also safety, S3 is a good reply.
What’s already been suggested is the best solution but if you’re desperate to keep everything on the shared hosting server (I’m assuming the files aren’t too large?) then you could set up another FTP login which points to the folder where the files are. That way they can upload via FTP and not have any access to the rest of the site/app. Not the best solution but still a viable one if you prefer it.
mmm… OK… my clients are not up to scratch with FTP software… 
Can you guys maybe recommend a FILE MANAGER… that is useful where a client can login… and upload images… rename them… but as they uploaded files are already resized client-side before upload
Why not create protected a file upload page with dropzone on it and use the image resize tools in Server Connect? You can build this exactly as per your users needs …
That’s the whole idea of wappler and its server side tools.
Yep, Wappler has all the tools needed to make a good file manager including image manipulation like resizing, cropping, rotating, watermarks, etc.
@Teodor. Thank you for the suggestion. The only worry is always the upload size and the limitations with the Drop Zone… because it does not resize the images beforehand… yes for me as a “tech savvy” guy knowing how to resize images beforehand its great… BUT… my clients hardly know how to resize an image… or rename it… yes i know… then they should not be using it… BUT TELL THAT TO MY CLIENTS!! hahahah… eish…
Ill use DropZone anytime… i do think its a great tool… I use it all the time…if you have a solution for me @Teodor … to resize the images before upload… ** see @UKRiggers post below thank you.
Or another way to approach image uploads… 100 - 500 images… i would appreciate it…
but please take into consideration “im a client and dont know how to decrease the image size”…
These clients take images with high end phones… 10 - 17MB an image… seriously…
Now dropzone 200 images… x 10MB… my server will time out… way before then even if i set this to the highest possible POST size
Hence this post.
and this from @UKRiggers
The idea comes from BlueImp’s jQuery File Upload plugin for PHP https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload and in particular
As an example, this is where the image to be uploaded is automatically resized on the device (mobile or PC) as part of the upload procedure from, say, 8Mb to 300Kb without changing the overall width or height, without cropping the image and without noticeable loss in quality. So no need for user intervention. I have implemented this on various sites and it works very well. It’s ideal for mobile use but just as good for desktop as it
It would be a win … if i can get the file resized… client side before upload… then it would not be a problem uploaded the 200 - 500 files… and will work like a breeze…
You @Teodor always come up with great solutions or ways to tackle a problem… and always manage to approach it in a way my head does not… 
I use https://bulkresizephotos.com/en to resize images. It doesn’t upload anything, it’s all done within the browser, so I wonder if similar features could be added to dropzone?
Yes it would be great if we can do it client side with drop zone… please vote for this here…
I think these features are on the way, in relation to the new App Flows:
awesome… sounds promising…
Has anyone downloaded Wappler 4… sorry i have not… but if so… did somebody notice if this is included in v4. … ( George …>>> So you can do image resize and manipulation all client side)
I don’t think anything new has been added in W4 yet. They have shifted over to Electron which has made everything super quick and brings a host of native possibilities too. I suspect ‘new’ stuff and requests will be starting to drop soon.
thanks Ben… and thanks for your feedback on the W4… its sounds awesome… when im all done with my projects… then ill upgrade…
I’ve been using each version pretty much from when they were released and have found them exceptionally stable (for a beta). I’ve now started using W4 on my live projects because I feel confident that it’s ready. When you do upgrade, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
@Teodor — Ok i have 500 images to upload that is at least 700kb - 1.2MB big… so my “POST” value would far exceed what the server would allow… so i cannot use Drop Zone i presume?
Is there a way to upload 500 images… in a loop or something…or que… so that once the first one is uploaded it load the next one… almost like FTP…
or is there a setting in dropzone that i can set to upload each images… and then when the image is loaded to the server the next one gets uploaded…
anyone ever had to upload loads of images client side?
I have a site. that I have uploaded a couple hundred photos no problem as long as the file sizes are less than server limit. I believe most servers have a 2 MB limit?
I didn’t use the drop zone though - just a regular multi-upload.
I believe, unless you need them to be original image size you can always decrease the size of the image in your upload steps so the file sizes are smaller.
Hi Brad… ok so the trick would be NOT to use drop-zone… that makes sense then… as the multi upload will “loop” with the repeat?? or is this the wrong idea… so it will basically “POST” the data of one image to the server… and then only do the next one… so as long as the images is less than the server upload limit …then i wont have an issue… is that correct?
That’s correct. I am not at my computer right now or I would get you as screenshot of my server action.
Cool whenever you can would be much appreciated… … as its almost 9pm here … ready for bed… 
thanks for the heads up on the multi upload… and I was so fixated with dropzone… that i missed that totally…
I’m not convinced the way the uploads are processed are any different between regular multi-upload and dropzone. Isn’t it just a UI difference? Server Connect would process it the same, wouldn’t it?