upload multiple files

Anon

hi,
I would like to know can we implement multiple file uploading,generally we browse one file and upload it to the server, but I would like to upload more than one file e.g browse 3 OR 4 files and select them to upload on to the server.Is that possible.

As well is there any possiblity that we can develop a application that can directly upload a directory of images directly on to the server from a remote system,as similiar to a file upload but uploading a directory.

Regards
s.r.k.reddy

murp32

Hiya...

I came across this problem before, where a client needed to upload an indeterminite number of images (up to 50) at a time.
Using HTML form uploading was not an option, because you can only upload one file per file input box.

The way I ended up doing it was getting the client to send a blank email with all the files as an attachment to a specified email address, and then the web page would actually connect to the mail server via POP3 and grab all the attachments and save them to the server.

I don't know if that helps in your situation at all... hopefully it does... 🙂

Unfortunately I can't give you the source code for it... you can have it, but I actually did it in ASP (red faced) - so it wouldn't be much good to you...

Cheers,

Matt

murp32

Sorry... another point:

The way I did it also has the added advantage of a progress bar so the the user can see how far through the upload they are.

Matt

Anon

hi MP,
Thanks really,but I think I cant make it so complicated for the user, now I prefer to use the zzip library to fetch the details ...I am working on that but it gives a fatal error undefined function zip_open()

I hope some one has implemented this way.

Thanks once again & Good Luck! :-)

Regards
s.r.k.reddy

Anon

hi mp,

I still didnt understand how did you select a folder by using a simple browse button..I think it is impossible ...if at all you let me know how did you select the folder..I think knowledge wise intresting one to know.

regards
s.r.k.reddy