Comments on: Creating an Upload Progress Bar in PHP with APC

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:49:45 +0000

It sounds like a system configuration problem. Check to make sure the upload_tmp_dir directive in php.ini is not set to something not read/writable by PHP (it defaults to the system temp directory if not set). Also make sure you don’t have something like SELinux preventing the file write.

By: David

David — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:38:32 +0000

hi Steve , Great tutorial.

This may seem so basic .. i’m new to this

I get apache error log ” failed to open stream – Permission denied in /var/www/html/upload.php on line 5

(ive already changed /www/uploads to /www/html/uploads to suit my distro.

file permissions on /uploads is 777 for the test … any ideas?.. thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:09:15 +0000

Yes, unfortunately this feature requires PHP 5.2 or greater. See: http://www.php.net/manual/apc.configuration.php#ini.apc.rfc1867

By: Rune

Rune — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:37:37 +0000

Thanks for a great tutorial

However, im having trouble with the progressbar. When i start en upload, the iframe shows the progress bar, and starts at 0%. But it’s stuck at 0%, while the upload is going in the background. The file is successfully uploaded, but the bar still indicates 0% after the upload has completed.

You mentioned that PHP 5.2+ is required. I have PHP 4.4 with APC installed. Would i still need to upgrade php? That requires alot of script-updates from our webpages :X

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:39:05 +0000

Very nice tutorial. Thank you. I’ve got it working with a nice moving progress bar and such.

But .. the receiving page “upload.php” never gets loaded. And I want to show results from the processing of the uploaded file there.

Are there any solutions for that?

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:01:41 +0000

It could be a number of things, so I’d need more info to help. Are you sure APC is installed correctly with apc.rfc1867 = On, and the HTTP server was restarted? What is the output of the APC section of phpinfo()?

By: dungeon

dungeon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:05:57 +0000

I need help..

File uploads to server but the progress bar does not show anything..
You only see Upload Complete in white…

Can someone help?

By: Michael Narciso

Michael Narciso — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:53:15 +0000

Hi Steve,

I’ve figured it out. I’m actually going to drop the UID and use the key i’m already generating!

Thanks!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:06:00 +0000

If I understand correctly, you need to have multiple variables in the URL. You just have to separate them with the & symbol, like this: index.php?key=12345&uid=12345

By: Michael Narciso

Michael Narciso — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:46:59 +0000

Hi Steve,

This tutorial is really something. However, I’m running into a unique problem where I need to be able to run this script within a certain scope. For example I have a url that already uses $_GET['key']. http://www.domain.com/index.php?key=12345

Do you think you can assist me with getting this script work within my scope? Basically what happens is that the $_GET['key'] is needed to display the proper page, $_GET['uid'] gets in the way of this.

Any help would be appreciated.