file uploads

I’m looking for feedback on a project idea.

 This grew out of a project I did last year that involved a lot of user file uploads that are then downloadable by others.

 Virus scanning needed to be part of the process, but I couldn’t find a good service out that that offered this.

 I did find one, but they explicitly forbid commercial use of the service, which somewhat took it of the table.

On the QaFoo.com site Manuel Pichler has posted a new tutorial about using unit testing, specifically with PHPUnit (really ending up on phpt) to test and be sure that your file upload handling is working correctly.

File uploads via HTTP are an annoyance. Web Browser know quite a lot but still the give little feedback to the users.

Some a bit more, most close to no feedback. Now over the years this led to man unhappy users. Over the last year, with all these AJAX things, solutions emerged so that one can periodically poll the web server on a second connection for the status.

For implementing this we have one architectural problem: PHP implements, for very good reasons, a shared nothing architecture.

New on ProDevTips.com there's a quick tutorial that includes a snippet of code showing you how to upload larger images with the help of HTML5 and this Ajax uploder.

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a post looking at uploading files in a Adobe Flex-based application that uses a slightly different than usual approach to uploading files through Zend_Amf.

The PHP group has announced the release of the latest version in the 5.2.x series for PHP - 5.2.12:

We’re just a few hours away from the launch of Google Wave.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die!
• SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Use PHP Namespaces, Part 1: The Basics
• SitePoint.com: How To Handle File Uploads With PHP
• NETTUTS.com: Kohana: The Swift PHP Framework
• Timothy Boronczyk's Blog: Currying in PHP

New on the SitePoint "PHP & MySQL Tutorials" blog today Kevin Yank has posted another excerpt from the "Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP and MySQL" looking at handling file uploads in PHP.