I have added an upload progress meter to several projects and they have all been a royal pain (browser compatibility, customized look, etc.)

I'm trying a new one I find using the Mootools Javascript framework.  Looks very promising:

http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/

And it would be backwards-compatible with PHP version prior to 5.2, which many distros still have yet to incorporate.

On Jul 10, 2007, at 2:03 AM, Larry Garfield wrote:

On Monday 09 July 2007, till wrote:

How you go about making use of PHP 5 is up to each project.  PHP 5.2 in
particular adds the ability for PHP apps to give meaningful upload
progress meters, for instance. That could be useful for adding
attachments to messages.  So there are front-end improvements that could
be made, independent of the other developer benefits that PHP 5 offers.

That's actually a pretty good idea, I had a look at the code the other
day and a progress meter wouldn't be so bad. Would you have a link I
could follow?

A little Googling turned up this:
http://www.dinke.net/blog/2006/11/04/php-52-upload-progress-meter/en/

Looks like it does require APC and JSON, so it probably can't be a feature 
that has to work for the system to function, but it is still a very nice 
add-on for users who have APC enabled.  (And if you're running a dedicated 
box, then you really should have APC on it.)

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