reading status of uploading file

[sfullman]

I know you can't do that wit conventional methods but here's an intriguing thought if you're uploading large files through a browser like me:

I know that php receives the file and puts it into a folder, normally /tmp, and I think it's destroyed when the script finishes.

However, while posting a very large file from my browser, I went into the /tmp directory on my server (as root) and couldn't see the file.

If I could see hte file, I could run a separate iframe page which would look for a changing /tmp file, and I may be able to get information back to the user by javascript.

Anyone know why I'm not seeing the file on the server however?

Sam

[kburger]

I'm guessing you may need to explicitly define the upload_tmp_dir directive in php.ini to be /tmp.

[sfullman]

did but no success.

You'd think that when a long file was being created you'd see it with an ls -la command. I'll double-check this anyway.

Thanks,
Sam