Re: [PATCH][HEAD] Upload progress in sessions

Hi, On Monday 08 September 2008 13:03:11 Pierre Joye wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Arnaud Le Blanc <arnaud.lb@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have written a patch to implement upload progress feedback in session data. > > > > The file upload feature in PHP allows extensions to be called back on some > > events. A few extensions use this to implement some sort of upload progress > > feedback, but none of them are released with PHP, which makes this feature > > unusable in many environments. > > > > The patch allows to store upload progress informations in session variables. > > These informations can be retrieved by an other script while the upload is > > still in progress, allowing to provide feedback to the user. > > Implementing this in the sessions extension makes this feature available to > > every one. > > Using the session extension for this purpose also allows to use the different > > storage backends available. > > I have written a RFC/documentation here: > > http://wiki.php.net/rfc/session_upload_progress > > > > Any objection on committing this to HEAD ? > > It is indeed nice to have this feature without relying on an > extension, however do you know that APC will be bundled in php6? As > APC provides this feature. Yes, but I don't think it will be enabled on shared hosting, for instance. Also, while session data can be shared across multiple servers, APC's storage can't. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > http://blog.thepimp.net | > http://www.libgd.org > Regards, Arnaud