how to get upload in progress ?

[steamPunk]

Hi

I've set up a server to upload big pdf files and this can take several minutes so i wanted to display the upload progress to the user so they don't get impatient.

I was wondering if I could use a repeating javascript function in the page to call a php page via AJAX to get the amount of bytes uploaded - but then i realized that the file is only moved when the upload has finished and until then it's in a temp directory

does anyone have any ideas how I could access the data in the temp upload directory ?

I'm guessing that the server must know how much data of a file it has uploaded - but maybe it doesn't .....

any ideas ?

thanks

[NogDog]

You could look into some of the AJAX upload progress solutions out there and see if any look good. (I've not used any, so don't have any recommendation.)

[steamPunk]

ok thanks - I'll have a look at those