Re: APC - Upload progress problem. apc

On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote:

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Phred White <phplist@planetphred.com> wrote:

Hey folks.. Anybody ever use APC to show upload progress? It sounds really cool, but apc_fetch always returns false a value for uploads. I can apc_add something and fetch it, but not for uploads : ( (set-up: php-apc 3.0.19, Apache2, php 5.2.10, no suhosin patch) There is little info to google on this, and I've been through it. I was hoping some hard core, tireless, php programmer just knew the answer. With high anxiety, Phred

I recently had to do roughly the same thing (visual upload progress) and I had done some research into APC. What I learned was that the upload tracking didn't work with FastCGI (which would have prevented our switch to nginx, but not a deal breaker) and what broke the deal, though, was the fact that APC's upload progress is apparently not thread safe, so if person A is uploading a file and person B starts an upload, you get a silent failure. Which brings me to another point, it seems to silently fail. Ultimately, I went with a flash based solution because the APC solution had way too many problems to be really useful. It's a nice thought, but I wouldn't recommend it. I know this isn't exactly what you wanted, but I had a similar experience and thought I would share :)

Dang! You are exactly right - that isn't what I wanted to hear! : ( But better to know now, then when my timeline is already used up. Did you write your own flash based solution, or use an canned one? Thanks, Phred