[thelist] PHP File upload suggestions

[Theodore Serbinski]

> hopefully all of your users will be on high speed connections if they
> are uploading 30 megs of data in one file, otherwise their browser
> and/or the server may time out waiting for the upload to complete.  sftp
> or scp is a much better alternative but requires that you trust the user
> and that they not only have the software installed but know how to use it.
> 
> as for the "please wait" bit you could use flash or php to dynamically
> update the status of their upload (usually via a percentage of completion).


Yeah users all would be on broadband connections.

As for using PHP to update the % completion, how would one go about
doing this? I didn't think this was possible???

ted