Chanel's Blog » uploading large files http://cmunezero.com Where code meets love... and a lot of awkward silences... Tue, 11 May 2010 21:17:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 jqUploader: Flash-based File Uploader and Progress http://cmunezero.com/2008/11/13/jquploader-flash-based-file-uploader-and-progress/ http://cmunezero.com/2008/11/13/jquploader-flash-based-file-uploader-and-progress/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:23:03 +0000 chanel http://cmunezero.com/?p=109 For the longest time, I’ve been trying to find a fairly simple solution for showing the real progress of file uploads. Most of them that I have found involved patching PHP to allow this functionality. What I think is going on is that during a file upload, PHP allows the web server, most of the time, apache, to handle the actual uploading of the file and only after the file is completely done uploading does PHP have access to the file itself.

Instead of using html based file uploads, flash is available. By using jqUploader, one can allow people with flash enabled browsers real time progress of their uploads. This is really handy for large images, zip files, or any file larger than 3mb.

Update: I have to give some props to John David at Conceptual Arts for initially telling me about jqUploader.

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