Re: Re: Drag and Drop with PHP and MySQL

You wont be able to do the drag and drop, but you can gracefully do multiple file uploads with flash (via flash 8). It also lets you know the progress of the file upload itself. I've done a snazzy picture upload tool for a Flex (generates flash applications on the fly with ActionScript and XML files only - no actual flash IDE) - it allows you to select a file, hit upload, shows a progress bar of the transfer (you can cancel at any time) - and when done, the image is made into a thumbnail and shown on the screen. -obviously, no page reloads and totally cross compatible. I wouldnt know where to start with regular flash as I'm a programmer, so only Flex appeals to me - but I know it can be done, and isnt extremely complicated. My guess is that you could have a flash guru whip something out pretty fast. =) -Nate Nielsen nnielsen@cfgod.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jasper Bryant-Greene" <jasper@album.co.nz> To: "Joe Harman" <cjharman@gmail.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: [PHP-DB] Drag and Drop with PHP and MySQL

Joe Harman wrote:

Hi Chris, I would think that there has to be something out there like a Javascript that would accomplish that... that would be my first guess anyhow... there possibly could be something done in flash that would act as a drop area for the file... let us know what you find Joe

There's no way the browser is going to let JS have access to the user's filesystem. I would expect ditto for Flash, although I don't use it. Jasper

On 11/18/05, Micah Stevens <micah@raincross-tech.com> wrote:

No. That would be nice though eh? What I have done in the past is when a user needs to upload a file, I give them a linked button that links to a ftp:// style address. This ftp account points to a directory that PHP can have access to. The user then drags and drops (IE only) the files on this new window, which uploads the files to this directory. Once they're done, they close the window, and hit a second button 'Click here when finished uploading' which tells php to grab all the files in the upload directory and put them where they need to go. This is far from ideal, causes miserable problems when more than one person is using the technique at once, and offers a host of security and usability issues. Oh, and it's IE only, Firefox can't do this, and I don't think opera/safari can either. However, it's much better than uploading a ton of files individually using a form. I only use this for applications where I can be sure that only one user will use it at once, and they're trusted. In a pinch it works though. I don't care so much about drag and drop, I was just trying to solve the multi-file upload issue. I wish there was a better way. If I'm stupid and there is, I'd love to hear about it. -Micah On Friday 18 November 2005 5:42 pm, Chris Payne wrote:

HI there everyone, I have a file upload system where you select via requester the file to upload, it then uploads it with PHP and stores the info in a MySQL database. Is there an interface / programming method I can use which I

can

DRAG a file from the desktop into an area in a form just as if I had

used a

file requester to select a file? Learning a new programming technique is no problem as long as it can be used with PHP and MYSQL. Any helps / pointers would be REALLY welcome. Chris

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