what is the best way to build an upload widget that can handle large files

is there a great jquery plugin for this?

I'd really love to have a progress bar without having to depend on flash

would need to use php for the backend

what is the best way to build an upload widget that can handle large files

is there a great jquery plugin for this?

I'd really love to have a progress bar without having to depend on flash

would need to use php for the backend

• php
• javascript
• jquery
• progress-bar

• 2 There are lots of answered questions almost exactly like this. – Pointy Commented Feb 5, 2010 at 16:22
• As Pointy said, you are not the first to ask the question. And AFAIK, there is no practical way to do that (with progress bar) in pure JS, that would suppose JS is accessing a file by chunks. If I am wrong, I would be glad to be corrected and pointed to a resource. – PhiLho Commented Feb 5, 2010 at 16:44
• he's not asking for pure JS. "js and php" ... "would need to use php for the backend" – ithcy Commented Feb 5, 2010 at 17:00

6 Answers 6

Take a look at Plupload.

It can't be done without patching PHP or using a bination of PHP and (perl or something else).

See: http://pdoru.from.ro/ and http://www.raditha./php/progress.php

I think what you're looking for is Uploadify.

Check out Blue Imp! Very nice interface and jQuery branch too!

APC allows to monitor file uploads from PHP http://www.phpriot./articles/php-ajax-file-uploads

You can code by yourselve the script that handles large uploads. You need html5 to slice in pieces the file and then upload them, and implode all the parts in the php server. I have write how to do that in my blog http://apuntes.alexmoleiro./2013/07/subir-archivos-grandes-de-100-mb-hasta.html It is spanish but the you are going to understand everything just reading the code. Hope it will be useful for you and for everyone that wants to upload big files without using widgets that really don't do exactly what we want.