Re: I would like to contribute a File Upload Status module
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 20 May 2003 22:38:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: I would like to contribute a File Upload Status module | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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We're not interested in the Javascript or HTML parts of this stuff, but if
you could post a diff of the changes you made to the core file upload code
to implement the status functions we can take a look. The Javascript and
HTML that makes use of these hooks fit better as a PEAR module.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 20 May 2003, David Enderson wrote:
> I would like to volunteer time to the PHP project to integrate a module
> I've written. I work as a full-time programmer for Digital IMS. We
> provide quite a few webservices and use PHP for almost everything. We
> needed an additional feature that the language did not provide, so I was
> commissioned to write an addon module to the language. We have been
> using it successfully for a year and my manager is interested in
> allowing me to work with the PHP project to integrate our module into
> the sourcebase if you want me to.
>
> (I hope this is the right place to post this information. I hunted all
> over the website for a contact point for volunteering and didn't find
> anything.)
>
> Summary Explanation of the Module:
>
> Our clients often upload large files and wanted a file upload status
> bar. I discovered that there was no way to do a file upload status bar
> with PHP so I wrote an add-on module that does this. If a web
> programmer is to use this functionality successfully, a bit of
> Javascript mixed with HTML is required.
>
> Here are some screenshots of this process in action:
> http://www.yanthor.net/upload_status.html
>
> Obviously the HTML you see is completely configurable. What the module
> provides is three functions added to the language to access the current
> file upload information:
> - the current upload status
> - the number of bytes uploaded so far
> - the total size of the incoming upload.
>
> I am willing to rewrite as much of my code as necessary to fit the
> coding standards of the PHP project. If the PHP project is interested
> in working with me, I can submit a project proposal to my boss to
> allocate time for me to work on this project.
>
> If I posted this to the wrong place, please direct me to the person I
> need to contact. :-) Thanks.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Enderson
>
> -----=+=-----
> David Enderson
> Programmer
> Digital IMS
> 402.437.0137
> denderson@digitalims.com
>
>
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