wwuster

I'm uploading a file to a server like this:

<form action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input type="file" name="datafile" size="40">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1000000">
<input type="submit" value="Send">
</form>

upload.php is receiving the file fine. I am processing the uploaded file which may take minutes to do. Upload.php displays results as it processes the uploaded file. However the new page drawn by upload.php does not display until the entire uploaded file is processed.

Is there a way to have the new page display the progress of the processing?

thanks,
William

Sawtooth500

A PHP Upload Progress bar actually isn't the easiest thing to make.

Use this tutorial: http://www.ultramegatech.com/blog/20...gress-bar-php/

That tutorial requires you to have the APC plugin for PHP. Not all hosting providers support APC. If you google "PHP Upload progress bar" There are some other alternate solutions, but the generally require some sort of PHP plugin, which is where a friendly hosting provider.

The reason that you need to use a plugin with PHP itself to track upload progress instead of just using PHP code is because with PHP you don't have access to raw POST data - and an upload bar would require you to do so. Therefore, you need something coded in a lower level language than PHP to augment PHP to somehow access that raw POST data.

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