Uploading Multiple files from an Array

AllenWalsh

Forgive me if I am really stupid but I have spent days searching for a solution to this supposedly simple problem.
Here is what I am trying to do.
I want my users to use a form to browse for files they wish to submit. I Don't want the files immediately, I just want the file names and locations on their machines.
Once the files are all selected i want to post them all at once or one at a time without further user clicking.
The PHP ftp function seems useless because it can only upload to the ftp server if the files already exist on the server!?
The POST functions seems to want an INPUT FILE for everyfile you want to send, all 500 of them??

Can someone enlighten me to the source of my insanity? I seems to me that my request is not earth shaking and somebody mmust know if it can be done.

Thanks

The Mad One
AL

jpmoriarty

doubt it can be done. besides, if you're uploading 500 files then it would take forever, and it'd be highly unlikely that the connection would remain stong enough for this to work (let alone server script timeouts).

And i wouldn't be too surprised that it cant be done or it's difficult - the stuff that's easy is always stuff people need to do quite a bit. How often do you know of people uploading 500 files to a website?

here's your best bet - if your server can deal with zip files (think you need the zip library compiled), which some can, then you could upload all the files in one zip and then get the server to extract all the files from it. not too sure how it's done, but i have heard that php can do it. have a look at zip_open() and zip_read() - it's probably your best bet.