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How should I handle file uploads to a website?

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Trevelyan

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I'm working on a site where users can upload files to the website. I want something that is going to be reliable for larger downloads (possible 100MB), and fairly simple to use.

So far, I've run into some limitations with PHP. It seems there is no easy way to track the progress of an upload...

I've been looking at some pre-made Java applets that look like they might work, but there are so many out there. Also, I've seen some Flash + PHP configurations that look promising. I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this sort of thing, and could recommend something?

Thanks!
 
Both struts and jsf take care of upload for you, the file gets saved to your temp directory and you can do whatever you want with it. I'm not aware of any ways of providing progress save for some asynchronous ajax based frameworks.
 
Thanks AFB -- that directed me to a couple solutions that work well. The best one I found that seems to be updated regularly is Uber Uploader, which uses PHP + Perl to accomplish the file upload. It was VERY easy to get up and running on my server, and I recommend it to anyone who needs to do file uploads and would like a progress bar:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/uber-uploader/
 
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