Upload via FTP? HTTP?

Capoeirista

Hi There -

Am trying to build a form that would upload a title, description and huge movie files. Since PHP has that size limit thing going, I was thinking that FTP upload to a specific directory was the ticket.

I'd like to also put the title, description and URL into either a database or an XML.

In the end, the output has to be an XML file that Flash reads, so it might make sense to store all the info in the XML file, at least for now.

I thought I had a handle on http file upload, until I learned about the size limitation. Then it all sort of fell apart.

Can anyone help me figure out how to start thinking about this?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Lee

kakki

.... until I learned about the size limitation

isnt that configured in php-ini????

justsomeone

kakki wrote:
.... until I learned about the size limitation

isnt that configured in php-ini????

The size limitation is. But large files could still run into timeouts on browser, or various levels of hardware between the client and server. No-one really configures anything to expect a HTTP request to take minutes to get a response, which could cause problems somewhere along the way.

What I'd suggest would be asking people to FTP their files, and then react when they arrive. The manner in whch files are uploaded would need to help you identify who uploaded what.

So, you could require people to register before they upload, then they could include their idnumber in the file name... (10123-myfile.mpeg) or you could give everyone their own ftp upload area which only they ahave access to, so that you know all files in dir 10113 came from that user.

You could then have a poller which checks the upload dir(s) every few minutes. Whenever it finds a file, it moves it to a central area and then emails the uploader a link to a form where they can complete any info relating to it.. All of this could then be storedin a database for conversion to XML when required.

Getting from there to flash, I can't help you with, as I don't know squat about it. 🙂 But preparing the XML should be straightforward.