Re: APC - Upload progress problem. apc

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Phred White <phplist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Phred White <phplist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Phred White <phplist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> 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. :)
>>
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> 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 :)

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