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[Robert Sandie]

If you aren't afraid of Flash 8 you can integrate PHP with a Flash 
progress bar:
http://www.joshbuhler.com/flash8/upload/

Rest of the article is here:
http://www.joshbuhler.com/2005/08/12/uploading-files-in-flash-8/

-Rob


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Corey Szopinski wrote:

>I'm trying to build a simple AJAX file upload progress bar. I'm  
>running into some trouble getting access to the file information that  
>I need.
>
>I've seen a couple of different strategies for tackling this problem.
>
>1. patching PHP so that it has a callback handler in the file upload  
>methods
>http://pdoru.from.ro/
>
>2. Watching the tmp upload directory for file size updates
>http://lixlpixel.org/ajax-upload-progress/
>http://www.devpro.it/upload_progress/
>
>3. Using a perl cgi-script to monitor the files
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaupload/
>
>
>I don't like option #1 because I don't want to have to patch my  
>installation of php. I don't mind #2, but I need to support  
>concurrent uploads, so this one is out of the running. I'm also loath  
>to use #3, because I'm not a huge fan of perl, and it seems like PHP  
>should be able to handle it.
>
>A further frustration is that the $_FILES array seems to populate  
>_after_ the file is finished uploading. I had hoped to grab the $_FILE 
>['tmp_name'] early, and then monitor the file via filesystem calls. I  
>had also kicked around using ini_set('tmp_upload_dir') to a dynamic  
>folder and then scanning over that folder like option #2, but the  
>ini_set would apply to all uploads, and not just the one I want to  
>monitor (which means no concurrent uploads).
>
>Are there any other sneaky ways to either 1. get (or set) the  
>tmp_name of a file so it can be watched, or 2. another means entirely  
>of watching the progress.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>thanks,
>
>-corey
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