I have helped som people during my time here and now I need yours

Has anyone any experience with upload progress bars? Currently working on a project (too bad no CI) where this is required. I have tried an example but so far it doesnt work. Would be cool if any of you have done anything with this before.

Did you try to have a look at the jquery plugins?

->jQuery

->visual jQuery

I actually prefer jQuery rather than scriptaculous and prototype ‘cause is better documented.

Hope this helps!

Dan

PS: I think that you should build something like a page loader animation connect to the execution time of the uploader script.

Take a look at this. I ran across it a while back, but haven’t used it for anything yet.

It took me a while to find this link again, but I finally did. This one is really cool, but it’s not officially released yet.

Wow that last one is very nice. Too bad you cant use it yet.

It should be noted that both links I posted are js+Flash based solutions. I’m not sure that there is a way to do it otherwise.

I think it is possible via Ajax + a javascript loader image

This is for ajax upload with jquery

danfreak, do you know of a demo for the jquery version? I couldn’t find one.

=> Here is a demo script with forms and loader image.

=> this is the jquery library (compressed: 19Kb)

I got a working script now after tweaking my example some more. Too bad its impossible (afaik) to get the total filesise of a uploaded file with PHP during upload.

I’ll work out an example with jquery now!

Mark van der Walle - 01 February 2007 09:28 AM

Too bad its impossible (afaik) to get the total filesise of a uploaded file with PHP during upload.

I’m pretty sure that’s what the Flash is used for. The file browser is from Flash, that’s why it’s able to restrict the type of file uploaded. Flash has more liberal access to the file system than JS and I think after the file is selected, it is able to get the total file size before starting the upload.

What version of php are you using?

our client hosts PHP4 so we have to use that. So for i got something with just PHP and ajax. Ill look at the flash stuff later. Although I just heard today that the project is currently on hold…

I just found this interesting script (didn’t test it yet).

=> tesUpload

while for images this looks cool!

=>ajax image upload

=>iframe ajax image upload with P.O.R.K

Well after a week of skiing in Austria I can start tackling this problem again. So far your help has been great. I’ll let ya know what I come up with.