You're right about it costing more money. But we had one server handling a bunch of uploads, most of them over 25 MB, and 99% being instigated by very impatient, not very technical, people. People who kept canceling and canceling, despite our directions, because they thought it was stuck or frozen or taking too long. It was worth $150 for us to buy the ASP component (I think we used ABCUpload, maybe?). The development time required for a creative PHP solution -- and one that might not have worked as well -- would have been dramatically more expensive than the almost out-of-the-box solution with ASP's components. (And much of the site was already written in ASP.)
Other than that, you'll get know argument from me about ASP vs. PHP. I'm head over heels for PHP and, in any context other than the one stated above (and maybe one or two others), I would choose to use God Blessed PHP over anything else. Cheers! Jed P.S. I knew I'd get some fighters with that comment. Haven't learned my lesson yet... ;-) On the threshold of genius, Jay Blanchard wrote: > [snip] > There really isn't a great solution for this, that I know of. It's one of > the few things that makes an argument for ASP over PHP, as far as I'm > concerned (if you have the luxury of choosing). Below is what I did once to > try to get around the problem. It worked *okay*. > [/snip] > > How does this argue for ASP over PHP? I don't see how. File upload on PHP is > built in and therefore free. ASP file upload mechs cost more money. And, > having used ASP for a while, and having looked for this feature, no upload > progress bar exists there either. And PHP is a language, where ASP is a > service ... please do not confuse the two. If you want to argue VBScript vs. > PHP , well ,come on ... let's go. :^] PHP can beat VBScript with one > curly-brace tied behind its back. > > I mentioned a while back, when this came up before (see the archives) that > this could probably be done with an IFRAME in the upload dialog box. Now I > haven't given this much thought, but maybe it could be done. The largest > problem that I see is the communication back and forth between client and > server. The server would have to know the original size of the file at the > point the upload is started, then it would be checked for original_size > minus bits_uploaded, flush the reults to the IFRAME drawing a GD graph, and > continue to do this as it went on. > > Another method is to start the upload with a non-progressive animation that > quits when is_upload_file() returns true. > > Jay > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
