Progress bar using PHP

Upload progress bar

An extension to track progress of a file uploads. It is only known to work on Apache and at least PHP 5.2 is needed.

To Install

In windows it’s quite easy just copy and paste the uploadprogress.dll extension and enables the extension in the php configuration file and that’s it.

However in linux or unix, installation is different you need to either install it from the site http://pecl.php.net/package/uploadprogress via a pear or pecl in the server or download the stable release from the site and then install.

What to configure in php.ini

[uploadprogress]

extension=uploadprogress.dll

uploadprogress.file.contents_template = "c:\temp\upl_%s.txt" uploadprogress.file.filename_template = "c:\temp\upl_%s.txt"

uploadprogress.file.upload_identifier="UPLOAD_IDENTIFIER"

uploadprogress.update_interval=500

uploadprogress.delete_finished=1

(please set the path as per linux where it says c:\temp\upl_%s.txt)

after adding this lines in php.ini create a folder temp in a location set in the above php.ini

That’s all … and start running the progressbar

The progress bar is tested in firefox and IE and is working fine.