On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Phred White <phpl...@planetphred.com> wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Phred White <phpl...@planetphred.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Phred White <phpl...@planetphred.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hey folks.. >>>>> >>>>> Anybody ever use APC to show upload progress? >>>>> >>>>> It sounds really cool, but apc_fetch always returns false a value for >>>>> uploads. I can apc_add something and fetch it, but not for uploads : ( >>>>> (set-up: php-apc 3.0.19, Apache2, php 5.2.10, no suhosin patch) >>>>> >>>>> There is little info to google on this, and I've been through it. >>>>> >>>>> I was hoping some hard core, tireless, php programmer just knew the >>>>> answer. >>>>> >>>>> With high anxiety, Phred >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I recently had to do roughly the same thing (visual upload progress) >>>> and I had done some research into APC. What I learned was that the >>>> upload tracking didn't work with FastCGI (which would have prevented >>>> our switch to nginx, but not a deal breaker) and what broke the deal, >>>> though, was the fact that APC's upload progress is apparently not >>>> thread safe, so if person A is uploading a file and person B starts an >>>> upload, you get a silent failure. Which brings me to another point, >>>> it seems to silently fail. >>>> >>>> Ultimately, I went with a flash based solution because the APC >>>> solution had way too many problems to be really useful. It's a nice >>>> thought, but I wouldn't recommend it. I know this isn't exactly what >>>> you wanted, but I had a similar experience and thought I would share >>>> :) >>> >>> Dang! You are exactly right - that isn't what I wanted to hear! : ( >>> But better to know now, then when my timeline is already used up. >>> >>> Did you write your own flash based solution, or use an canned one? >>> >>> Thanks, Phred >>> >>> >> >> I actually wound up using swfupload because of a friend's >> recommendation and also because there's a nifty jQuery plugin for it. >> >> The project's main site: http://swfupload.org >> The jQuery plugin I'm using: >> http://blogs.bigfish.tv/adam/2009/06/14/swfupload-jquery-plugin/ >> >> The *only* issue I could find with a flash based uploader (I don't >> regard flash installation as an issue because we're a video based site >> and well, if you're using our site to watch videos...) was there's an >> as-of-yet unresolved bug in linux flash clients that locks a browser >> until upload is completed. Adobe's bug tracker seems to be down for >> me at the moment, but if you really want the bug, let me know offlist >> and I'll supply it later. :) >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > Hey Eddie: > > One more question... > I have an existing form that provides other data that need to be linked to > the file upload. It looks like swfupload, just uploads all by its lonesome. > I also need the javascript form validator to be triggered before any > uploading occurs. Is this possible? You don't have to tell me how (though I > wouldn't mind a few clues). I just want to know if it will meet my needs > once i dig in. > > Thanks > >
That should all be possible. I'd take a look at http://demo.swfupload.org/v220/featuresdemo/index.php as that has most of that happening on the page and you can bootleg some of their example code :) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
