Re: Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

Richard Lynch wrote:

On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:

I'm trying to figure out which direction the PHP community is going when it comes to an upload progress meter.

Since that meter would necessarily be CLIENT side, the PHP community is pretty much ignoring it, since PHP runs on the SERVER. Anything you see with "PHP" "upload progress meter" together has to be some kind of hack whose under-pinning is NOT PHP at all, but is JavaScript or similar client-side technology. Why don't you ask the guys who write BROWSERS why *they* don't provide a nice API/interface to display progress, or, better yet, why the browser itself doesn't just do it once and for all for everybody?

let's consider that 99% of all clients would want a 'nice' looking progress bar (in the same way they often asking me to do something about the std form fields, which they consider ugly). i.e. it would just be moving the problem somewhere else in practical terms, in so far as we'd probably still have to figure out hacks to make the bl**dy thing look nice (in the eyes of the guy/girl paying the bill ;-) and for the record there are other languages that support a progress bar idiom ... php being the pragmatic thing that it is should imho entertain this idea more seriously (waiting for browsers to implement it or ignoring the continually recurring request for such functionality) .... that said Richard has a very strong argument.