[thelist] PHP File upload suggestions

[Burhan Khalid]

Theodore Serbinski wrote:
>>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).
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> 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???

Plenty of ways to do this.  One of them is the HTML_Progress class over 
at pear (that's pear.php.net).

Its not 100% PHP (obviously), but PHP + Javascript.

Regards,
Burhan