[Plugin: Easy FTP Upload] What EXACTLY does it?

The whole purpose of this plugin is to allow end users to submit large files to an ftp site. It is a php implementation of a very simple ftp client. Javascript is used only to validate the form for required fields.

It’s very simple. The person uploading fills out the form to explain what to do with the upload, then selects a file and clicks Upload. The file they have selected then gets put onto the ftp site you have designated in the settings, and a notification email is sent to the email address you have also specified in the settings.

There is no automatic post-processing of any sort. This was not designed to enhance WordPress functionality – it was designed entirely to allow places such as print shops and graphic houses to provide their customers an easy way to submit files. Thus, this plugin probably wouldn’t work for what you want to do with it.

If you knew PHP enough and were comfortable navigating a MySQL database, you could find a way to add a few inputs to the form, and then have the script write to the media database after it uploads. You would have to make sure each field is accounted for, and you would have to figure out a way to avoid redundant ID numbers. I don’t know how to do any of this, but maybe you could find someone who can.