Re: Copying 1000s files and showing the progress

Hello, on 02/13/2008 11:11 PM Ritesh Nadhani said the following: > I though I could apply some funkiness to it by using some AJAX based > progress bar for which the example showed some sort of hooking and all > which I thought was too much for such a job. I will talk to my boss > regarding this and do the necessary. > > BTW, whats the issue with AJAX based approach? Any particular reason > other then it seems to be a hack rather then an elegant solution > (which is more then enough reason not to implement it...but I wonder > if there is a technical reason to it too)? If the user hits the browser stop button, it may abort the process in the server if you have the PHP option ignore_user_abort option set to off. Other than that I do not see any other problem. AJAX can be a little complicated if you have to code all the Javascript by hand. You may want to try this forms class that comes with an AJAX form submission plug-in. http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration Even if you do not need to submit any forms, the AJAX plug-in can be used to do what you need without having to learn Javascript to implement a browser independent AJAX solution. Take a look at this live example that shows how to give progress feedback of a task running on the server: http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html?example=test_ajax_form -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP professionals looking for PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/professionals/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/