I am a bit confused now. We are talking about a progress bar at the client side, that is to feed the enduser with progress information, or? According to what Rich Stupek explainded to me in a private e-mail the client upload the file in a syncrone simplex mode, hence the client can't here any message passed back from the web server. So whatever the webserver happen to do while the client is uploading the file does not really matter(?). In other words, a progress bar must be a client dependent thing? -----Original Message----- From: Manuel Lemos To: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: 2004-01-21 21:47 Subject: Re: Limitations with webservers. WAS: Show the Progress of a file Hello, On 01/21/2004 12:01 PM, B.A.T. Svensson wrote: >>You are confusing the types of progress. You can't track file upload >>progress in PHP because PHP scripts only run after the file upload is >>concluded. This is a limitation of PHP. Therefore that class alone is >>useless. > > > For me it seams to be a limitation with the webserver? > > Because even in principle php can't do this unless the > web server permits/supports it - and I assume not many > web servers does that? Or? No, this can be done with Apache for instance in Perl but not in PHP because PHP only starts executing the script after the upload has been handled. The Perl solution takes note of the size of the file that is being transferred and another script can run in parallel to check the progress and output a page that shows how it is going. http://www.raditha.com/megaupload/ PHP can only do this with a patch. Somebody submitted a patch in the php-internals mailing list but it seems nobody committed it. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
