Embed public files on a Website

[skerbis]

Is there a way to embed a public folder by iframe or php into a Website,
so that a user can browse a folder and download the files he or she needs.
Or do you know a nice Webdav browsing class for PHP?
We want to share some public data which will be perhaps managed in a nextcloud.

[eppfel]

Is there a way to embed a public folder by iframe or php into a Website

This imposes a security risk, if not from same origin and is not advised. 😁
@nextcloud/security Right? Do you know something? -->

Or do you know a nice Webdav browsing class for PHP?

[jospoortvliet]

There's more than iframing this.

What about embedding an image on a public website, in a forum somewhere?

Say you're on a forum like here:
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=221&t=137440&p=367768#p367768
and you want to embed an image from a Nextcloud instance, you get a URL like:
https://share.kde.org/index.php/apps/files_sharing/ajax/publicpreview.php?x=600&y=558&a=true&file=sharing.png&t=tH1ZvenNd3JPFM8&scalingup=0

A few more points:

• The URL have to be obtained by visiting a shared link such as https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/tH1ZvenNd3JPFM8 and invoking a 'Copy image address' function of a browser. Not easy at all.
• If forums have fixed width limits, extra preprocessing is needed for the image (by the user) or the URL has to further change the URL by hand, in particular the 'x=...' parameter has to be set to something like x=720 or smaller (the above example uses x=600)
• I am wondering if the links like https://share.kde.org/index.php/apps/files_sharing/ajax/publicpreview.php?x=600&y=558&a=true&file=sharing.png&t=tH1ZvenNd3JPFM8&scalingup=0 are not implementation-specific and will stay accessible after, for example, upgrades of the Nextcloud instances.

@nextcloud/designers do you think it would make sense to try and simplify these links and make it easier to embed images from a Nextcloud instance in other places? I'd actually love to put a screenshot on my NC and directly paste the image here...

[eppfel]

@jospoortvliet I opened a dedicated issue, because the use case @skerbis mentioned, is a little bit different and I like your idea!

@skerbis Why does your "folder" have to be embedded into another site? Would theming and a direct link not be enough?

[MorrisJobke]

See also #2523 (comment) for the security aspects ;)

[skerbis]

@eppfel the best thing would be a PHP-Class which allwos me to show the Folders, Files and Subfolders inside the Website. The Folder is managed inside nextcloud but should be shown on the Website. Perhaps does anyone know a PHP-Script for integrating a webdav-browser?