Petition: upload progress bar. Please sign and spread the word

[spybreak]

I hope it's ok to post this here.

I created this petition because I feel that we need a function in PHP that tells us about the status of a file upload.

I also created a banner for this petition. I'd be grateful if you posted it on other PHP forums, to spread the word. I'll contact the PHP team as soon as we have a considerable amount of people that signed this petition.


http://www.petitiononline.com/PHPUpSt/petition.html

Please sign if you want such a feature too. Click on the banner




Thanks for your support,

Robert

[okrogius]

Such a petition is utterly pointless. It's not PHP's job to provide such client side things. W3C? maybe, but they already have xform improvements. Finally you can just use Java.

[Virakor]

PHP is also open source and if you wanted to feature find a coder to code it in for you. I believe PHP is written in C/C++

[spybreak]

Finally you can just use Java.

Then I could just as well use Perl. That's not the point.

PHP is also open source and if you wanted to feature find a coder to code it in for you. I believe PHP is written in C/C++

There are alredy two patches out that add that functionality. The problem is lots of people are on shared webhosts where it's just not possible to tweak PHP.

Does anyone support this idea? Looks like I'm alone now. I read several threads across the web that asked for such a solution.

[eZtro]

I agree with okrogius, it would be pointless. However, I will sign the competition for support, because of course I am not going to prevent more feature requests, that would also be pointless. So you get my vote, but bear in mind that not many people will give a darn (I hope I can say that) about having a progress bar in the language.

[spybreak]

thanks eZtro. Doesn't look as if much people care though, just as you said.

[KTottE]

How would it work?
PHP is server-side, so I don't see how it would update a clientside progressbar. In a smart way that is.

[spybreak]

Let's forget this.

[KTottE]

I'm just curious, you mentioned patches that provided this functionality, I'm interested in how they work. If PHP could be made to do client-side coding as well, I'd be in heaven.

[Andrewaclt]

If PHP could be made to do client-side coding as well, I'd be in heaven.

php-GTK?

[KTottE]

Php-GTK is not clientside. Well, it is, but it's not webbased. The client needs PHP installed and it runs like any other application on your desktop, clientside webcode is stuff like JavaScript.

If PHP does that... yum.

[spybreak]

What the patches do is, they give you a function that allows you to query the status of a file upload. Having that, you can construct a progress bar easily using JavaScript or something. You could for example open a small popup as soon as the user submits the form and have a progress bar in there.

[someonewhois]

You can't do clientside from the server with PHP - 2 options: Javascript, or XUL.

I could write something that does that easily... stop whining, just make it for yourself.

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[spybreak]

I could write something that does that easily... stop whining, just make it for yourself.

Ok, code me an upload script that shows me how much bytes have been, how much still have to be uploaded in PHP, without any hacks to the PHP engine, and I'll give you 200 bucks.

You don't even understand the problem

[someonewhois]

Erm, if you need something the same as that banner that's not that hard to do...

[spybreak]

I'll quote myself

I created this petition because I feel that we need a function in PHP that tells us about the status of a file upload.

and explain it to you again slowly.

In PHP there's no way to know how far a file upload has progressed. If there was a function that allowed me to determine how much bytes have been received alredy, I could do an accurate (not pseudo) progress bar using some client side technology, either JavaScript or something else.

Oh and thank you for being so nice.

[someonewhois]

Is there ANYTHING in PHP that lets you talk to JavaScript? Not that I know of... to do what you want to do you would simply have to accept the form upload protocol yourself, it'd take a bit of work but it's possible.

[okrogius]

Then I could just as well use Perl. That's not the point.

That is the point. PHP is server side, a Java applet is client side.

[spybreak]

You could just aswell refresh a php page every second and output the progress bar using PHP. That's not the problem, I'm repeating myself. The petition is for a function that provides me with upload status information.

[spybreak]

That is the point. PHP is server side, a Java applet is client side.

Ok, accepted. But it's just not acceptable for what I need. Then my users would need to have the Java Virtual machine installed.

[someonewhois]

You could just aswell refresh a php page every second and output the progress bar using PHP. That's not the problem, I'm repeating myself. The petition is for a function that provides me with upload status information.

Not accurately. PHP doesn't tell you the status at all. You have to parse the protocol yourself, simple as that.

[spybreak]

PHP doesn't tell you the status at all.

Isn't that what I'm asking for? Seems like you're getting it finally.

[KTottE]

You're still not getting it though. What do you want to do server-side with that information? The only way of getting PHP to display the information (or getting the information from PHP using clientside scripting) is by refreshing the page continuously.

[spybreak]

You know, I'm doing this for clients. I don't need the perfect ideal solution, I need a solution that works. I heard Opera displays how much has been uploaded. However IE doesn't, so I have to find another solution. Just like you I wish the world was ideal, was fully CSS compliant, no wars etc… And this would be an acceptable solution in my opinion. What's wrong about letting a PHP script now the progress of a file upload.

[someonewhois]

It's possible, you just have to write an upload server (running on port 8080 or something), and you submit your forms to http://127.0.0.1:8080 and parse the POST request yourself. Do you understand?