Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 9:23 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:28 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Everything PHP returns from a server is client side, so your Oh yeah. I forgot to say... The above presumption is patently false. Let me clarify:

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 9:55 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: that the replies I've gotten from this list so far suggest that internals of PHP development are seriously opposed to such a feature? They may or may not be opposed to attempting to use server-side technology to

[PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
All, I'm trying to figure out which direction the PHP community is going when it comes to an upload progress meter. I've just recently discovered the ease of installing packages using PECL and see that this package is defined: http://pecl.php.net/package/postparser Yet, there does not

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: I'm trying to figure out which direction the PHP community is going when it comes to an upload progress meter. Since that meter would necessarily be CLIENT side, the PHP community is pretty much ignoring it, since PHP runs on the SERVER.

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Jochem Maas
Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: I'm trying to figure out which direction the PHP community is going when it comes to an upload progress meter. Since that meter would necessarily be CLIENT side, the PHP community is pretty much ignoring it, since

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: I'm trying to figure out which direction the PHP community is going when it comes to an upload progress meter.Since that meter would necessarily be CLIENT side, the PHP community is pretty much ignoring it,

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:28 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Anything you see with PHP upload progress meter together has to be some kind of hack whose under-pinning is NOT PHP at all, but is JavaScript or similar

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:28 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Everything PHP returns from a server is client side, so your Oh yeah. I forgot to say... The above presumption is patently false. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:27 pm, Jochem Maas wrote: Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 12:18 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Why don't you ask the guys who write BROWSERS why *they* don't provide a nice API/interface to display progress, or, better yet, why the browser itself doesn't

RE: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...a pretty good discussion... [/snip] I have used output buffering to flush stuff (like lengthy data) to the client before the end of the script so that those pesky users could see something was happening (because they couldn't be bothered to watch the browser's progress meter) and at one

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
Richard Lynch wrote: On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:28 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: Everything PHP returns from a server is client side, so your Oh yeah. I forgot to say... The above presumption is patently false. Let me clarify: Assuming client/server architecture, if PHP is on the

Re: [PHP] Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

2006-04-25 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
Richard Lynch wrote: Anything you see with PHP upload progress meter together has to be some kind of hack whose under-pinning is NOT PHP at all, but is JavaScript or similar client-side technology. Not true. The graphical display is HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, etc...but the means of monitoring