Colin Guthrie wrote: > T.Lensselink wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:38:18 -0600, "Jay Blanchard" <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> [snip] >>> Seems to me Pere want's to do an upload without reloading the whole >>> page. >>> [/snip] >>> >>> The problem is that you cannot upload files using Ajax alone. But you >>> can do it without a reload, requires an invisible IFRAME and a little >>> technique. Search Google for several different articles on this. >> Indeed uploading with only Ajax is not possible. >> The already named iframe technique was the only thing i could think of. >> I was just curious if Jochem knew some other way of tackling this problem. > > I've not tried but I thought the point of returning a status code as > Jochem mentioned would cause the browser to not need to download the > content again? > > e.g. it gets a status code of e.g. 304 Not Changed and no data will the > browser need to reload the page from it's cache or will it just keep the > current page as it is. I would have thought this was a client-side > implementation issue rather than anything else. correct. you send a request to the server, which includes the file being uploaded - at the stage of sending a request there is nothing to reload, all the way through the upload the page just sits there. when the server completes handling the request it will send a status header and optionally some content. inb the case of return a 304 to the browser, your telling the browser to use whatever it's already displaying - actually I feel the 204 status is more appropriate. in both cases no content is returned, and no page is refreshed/reloaded/whatever :-) > > Of course with these codes you can't inform someone that something has > gone wrong, but I guess you only issue the codes on success. That said > it will be a little odd exerpience for the user without some form of > positive feedback. Just a click a small wait with mouse cursor whirring > then it stops and that's it.... bit odd. I agree. > > > Col > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
