There really isn't a great solution for this, that I know of. It's one of the few things that makes an argument for ASP over PHP, as far as I'm concerned (if you have the luxury of choosing). Below is what I did once to try to get around the problem. It worked *okay*.
The bummer is that I had to ask people to enter the size of their file in a field. (Rough estimates were okay.) Then, as soon as somebody hit the submit button on my form, I popped up a small, modal, progress bar sized window that was actually two frames. I passed the file size value from the form field to the top frame. In the bottom frame, JavaScript created a bordered <div> equal in pixel length to the number of MB of the file being uploaded. The top frame, a PHP doc, would then refresh every three seconds, executing a filesize() on the uploaded file, converting it to MB, rounding up, and then using DHTML to resize the width of a blue-gradient gif contained in the <div> of the bottom frame of the progress bar window. Typically, this worked okay for me. It wasn't the prettiest progress bar in the world, but it did the trick for most people. HTH! Jed On the threshold of genius, Jacob Miller wrote: > Everything I've read says that there is no way to display the progress of a > file upload (via a form) using PHP. > > I'm currently working on a site which will regularly be accepting very > large uploads, anywhere from 10 to 250+ mb and I really need a way to > display the progress of the upload so that it doesn't appear as if the > browser has frozen for a few hours. > > Any suggestions for a solution? > > thanks > -jacob > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
