Re: File Uploader - Progress

On 3 May 2002 at 15:57, Mike Flynn wrote: > At 01:21 AM 5/4/02 +0530, Arijit Chaudhuri wrote: > >File uploads are a breeze to code in php. However, I have got a > >request from a client to show the percentage uploaded or some graphic > >progress monitor as the upload process is difficult to track for > >large files. Is there any way of coding such a progress tracker for > >file uploads in php? > > Unfortunately, I don't think there is. The file data is sent in the > *request* for the PHP page, meaning the PHP page doesn't even get sent > back to the user until the file is done uploading. So there's not > really any choice but for the user to view the page with the upload > form until the file is done uploading. I've been thinking about this, and there may be a way. I don't know how PHP handles file uploads, but it has to be saving the file it's receiving somewhere. You could launch a popup window when the form is submitted. That popup goes to a page that gets the size of the file PHP is saving the upload to and displays it and refreshes itself periodically. I dunno if it would work, but it's a possibility. -- Stuart