qustion on this website

I am trying do this on a budget this is a new company I am starting and I don't really want to spend any extra for the FTP for me it is not a necessity but something I would like to setup so I don't have to wait on a disk
so I would like to try the PHP it does not need to be that secure they are only sending art files for advertisment I would just like it so only I can see the files and not anybody else.
something else I saw was a page were you just filled in the email address and had a box with a browse button which let people find the file on their computer and then a button that said send file and it showed a progress bar showing the upload after it finished uploading it was done and it would send an email to the webmaster to tell him a file was uploaded so he could download it.
is this something I could do with my hosting company?