Re: Re: HTTP Uploads and HTML_Progress

On 18 Feb 2004 at 14:11, Laurent Laville wrote: > > Mika Tuupola, wrote: > > Has anyone done a progress meter with HTML_Progress and > > browser based / http file uploads? > > > > If I understood correctly the new HTML_Progress_uploader > > if only for ftp based file uploads. > > > Michael Wallner, wrote; > > I guess that's because it's the (currently only known) way > > where you can get feedback on the progress of the upload. > > A bit of roadmap history from version 1.0 to 1.1 : > I always wanted to make a HTTP upload solution with QuickForm, but > after many try i've decided to stop. Why ? As Michael said, but > perharps i'm wrong, there is currently no way to know amount of > information in upload way. Operation is synchronous. > > With HTML_Progress_Uploader, i've used php-ftp asynchronous function. > It seems currently to be the only solution. If anyone has found > another way, please tell us ! > > BTW, i've recently worked on a user-problem. And i solved it with > HTTP_Request package Perharps it could be possible to make an HTTP > Upload easy solution with this same package.... > > Feedback are welcome . Laurent, please have a look at Megaupload: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/ http://www.raditha.com/php/progress.php They seem to have a working solution, though I haven't yet tested myself. However, they don't seem to be able to solve the problem *just* with PHP. They have the progress bar written in PHP. However they use a small Perl-script that reads the uploaded file directly from stdin. This works, because Perl, in contrast to PHP, doesn't automatically handle file-uploads itself. Haven't yet tried the following: How about using php-cli via a script and reading from stdin? Does the cli-version also handle fileuploads itself? Maybe cli doesn't include the upload-handling-"feature". Feedback welcome :-)) Regards, Stefan