Realtime progressbar ajax+php ?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by Yazari, Dec 20, 2008.

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    Hello,

    I'm currently working on a project that needs to download some large files using a php function i created download($file);


    it simply download a givenfile to a specific directory on the webserver.

    How could I make a progressebar to show the real progresse of the download(); function ?


    please don't tell me to use solutions like :
    for.{... sleep(x) flush() ...}
    Code (markup):
     
    Yazari, Dec 20, 2008 IP
  2. Yesideez

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    As far as I'm aware your only option is to use CGI or Flash.
     
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  3. Yazari

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    how could flash do the job?
     
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    You'd need to write some ActionScript for your Flash file.

    Not done this myself as I don't use Flash but have seen it on some sites.
     
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    well, the problem isn't the progressbar itself, the major problem is how do i synchronize between the progressbar and the task being performed..

    say i have a function that shown the current percentage and fills the progressebar according to that given percentage something like : showPbar(int percent)

    once download() is being executed,it fires showPbar(p) to show the %.

    any suggestion ?
     
    Yazari, Dec 20, 2008 IP