how to implementing a php upload process indicator

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    hello :)

    i have managed to get my php to work as in, an uploader user page

    1) uploadForm1.php ||| amount of files to be uploaded

    
<html>
<head>
<title># of Files to Upload</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="uploadForm2.php">
  <p>Enter the amount of boxes you will need below. Max = 9.</p>
  <p>
    <input name="uploadNeed" type="text" id="uploadNeed" maxlength="1">
  </p>
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Next">
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
    PHP:
    2) uploadForm2.php ||| browse and upload files

    
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>

<form name="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="processFiles.php">
  <p>
  <?
  $uploadNeed = $_POST['uploadNeed'];
  for($x=0;$x<$uploadNeed;$x++){
  ?>
    <input name="uploadFile<? echo $x;?>" type="file" id="uploadFile<? echo $x;?>">
  </p>
  <?
  }
  ?>
  <p><input name="uploadNeed" type="hidden" value="<? echo $uploadNeed;?>">
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Upload">
  </p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
    PHP:
    3) processFiles.php ||| the uploader

    
<?
$uploadNeed = $_POST['uploadNeed'];
for($x=0;$x<$uploadNeed;$x++){
$file_name = $_FILES['uploadFile'. $x]['name'];
$file_name = stripslashes($file_name);
$file_name = str_replace("'","",$file_name);
$path = 'uploads/';
$copy = copy($_FILES['uploadFile'. $x]['tmp_name'],$path.$file_name);

 if($copy){
 echo"<font color=#009999 face=verdana size=10>$file_name | uploaded sucessfully!<br>";
 }else{
 echo "$file_name | could not be uploaded!<br></font>";
 }
}
?>
    PHP:
    i don't know how to implement a process indicator though ... something simple such as "file is being uploaded, please wait"

    i am guessing that it would form part of an echo command line

    any ideas or any url tutorials?


    thanks



    sophia
     
    seeing, Sep 19, 2007 IP
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    RE: process indicator

    i have found a few sites that output the file upload process
    but they either use flash or javascript...

    http://pdoru.from.ro/

    http://swfupload.mammon.se/


    i only want a simple message to display after the "upload" input button is clicked

    i had been studying the php code and the "action" command
    on the input line directs the subsequent action (lol) of the
    button as in....

    
<form name="form1" method="post" action="uploadForm2.php">
    PHP:
    this opens the page "uplaodform2.php"

    
<form name="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="processFiles.php">
    PHP:
    this then runs the processFile.php data

    i would like an intermittent page/code in between the uploadform2.php and the processFile.php to display "uploading in process, please wait....." and also be able to read/process the processfile.php data


    this may be simple, may be hard but i can't do it :(


    any help with this?


    thanks


    sophia
     
    seeing, Sep 19, 2007 IP