Re: PHP/SWFUpload progress

Hello, on 12/24/2009 09:33 AM German Geek said the following: > Hi all, > > Wishing you a merry xmas! As a gift to you a little thing that I figured out > through long googling and trial and error: > > We are using the swfupload (flash) upload tool to upload files to a php > script. For a rather cryptic reason on some clients the progress would show > too quickly when AVG Link scanning was activated on a windows machine. The > upload would have completed, but it was actually still uploading. Sound > weird? Yes that's what we thought. Very likely your modem is buffering the uploaded data. > We ended up solving it by installing SSL (https) on that machine which > solved the problem because the anti virus cannot "see" the upload requests > and tamper with it. > > I know this is not strictly PHP related, but since this list was always > helpful for me i thought i would share this for xmas. > > There is a question that came up though: > When uploading to a php page i could find a temporary file that was growing > on the server. Couldn't one monitor the growth of that file and therefore > track the progress with AJAX poll requests? I know this is more overhead but > this seems more reliable to me when there is something funny going on on the > client machine, like with the above anti virus. I couldn't figure out how to > determine which temp file it was though, because the request would be still > going while the file is uploaded and you cannot read the $_FILES variable or > similar. That is exactly what I do with the PHP upload progress extension and a special plug-in for the Forms Generation and Validition class. There is no need for Flash. http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration Here is a live example: http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html?example=test_upload_progress This article explains it in more detail: http://www.phpclasses.org/blog/post/61-File-upload-progress-meter-for-PHP-4-at-last.html -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Find and post PHP jobs http://www.phpclasses.org/jobs/ PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/