Very awesome!

Where does one define a specific folder within the default directory that uploaded files are placed?

The destination directory can be any existing directory on your server and is set inside the upload.php file:
$upload = new FileUpload(DESTINATION_DIR);
or you can write:
$upload->set_target_directory(DESTINATION_DIR);

Hi, i am not able to specify a new folder for the uploaded files. At my webhoster i am using this folder: ‘/var/www/html/web256/html/bht’ . The files should be uploaded into ‘/var/www/html/web256/html/bht/uploads’. How can i realize it?

This is really brilliant piece of code! It solves all the problems with uploading files on a shared hosting. Very neat and elegant code, easy to customize and it works! Thank you.

Any reason why the file uploaded to the server would continue to have the .tmp extension? I don’t see any errors in the log files.

Isn’t it possible to upload really large files ( > 100.00 mb)? If yes how could you do this?

I would love to use it but it does not work with over 30 errrors being generated in the BigFileUpload. What version of Flex is required?

Wow, this looks quite handy!
For a nice and easy Web-ftp solution, check my FileManager FX.

You have to compile the component for Flash Player 10 (with Flex SDK 3.x).
FileReference.load is only available since FP 10.
For more information see:
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Targeting+Flash+Player+10

Can you use this code to load a video to the client flex app.?

Can you play the video without uploading it to the server?

This is awesome!!! I appreciate if you also post the upload.php code or server side script sample that can verify the checksum and allow resumption of the interrupted upload?

The php code is already available. The files are inside the bin-debug directory of the zip file.
See: http://www.zehnet.de/files/FlexFileUploadComponent/$zip_FlexFileUploadComponent/bin-debug

Cool, thanks Nik! This really helps! What would you reccomend for enabling pause/resumption on big file download? Is there any sample code similar to upload exist for managing the download?

BUG!
Thanks for the awesome component. There is a bug you may not be aware of. When you upload a file smaller than the chunk size the session variable is changed. All other actions (such as file check and split upload) send the correct session var. This casuses an issue with server side authentication of log in.

Thanks again. It got me out of a hole!

@Steve:

If you upload files smaller than the chunk size, the “ordinary” actionscript upload is used via FileReference.upload. This method is buggy as it does not send cookie data with the request. If your session depends on a sessionId set in a cookie, the request won’t be authenticated. And you can not even change this behavior by directly digging into the request headers and adding the cookie data manually.

The manual says:
“The requestHeaders property of the URLRequest object is ignored; custom HTTP request headers are not supported in uploads or downloads.”

The only solution to bypass this problem is to either send your sessionID as GET parameter via urlVariables or to use the custom BigFileUpload class for all of your uploads.

nik

It looks great but I have no idea how it works. I keep getting “No ploadUrl specified” and I can’t figure out how to resolve it.

It looks great but I have no idea how it works. I keep getting “No ploadUrl specified” and I can’t figure out how to resolve it.

You have to pass an uploadUrl via flashvars to the swf object as it otherwise does not know where to upload the files.

Excellent work. can you let us know how to upload more then 100MB files.

Very nice app. I was trying to integrate this with my website. The file upload folder path is dynamic in my project. But I am facing problem the app is uploading files to folder which is initially assigned even after i change folder path using session variable in PHP.

Hello,
I forgot one thing, I need to update my database with all files uploading, where should i include that code ?

Great application. It works with files greater than officialy supported 100MB. However there is a problem with files greater than the amount of RAM available. In such case there should be MemoryError thrown and caught (as I see it in BigFileUpload code). But it crashes Flash Player instead. Why is that? Am I missing something?

How to update my database with all files?

Hi Nik.

I have found a bug? I have set the max upload file size to 600MB. When I upload 3 files on FF with their sizes adding up to just over 600MB the upload fails on the last file with the % progress saying “uploading file…NaN%”. Subsequent file uploads fail – even if the page is refreshed. Closing FF is the only way to get files uploading again. I suspect it isn’t clearing the size uploading between files – but I don’t programme flex, thus cannot fix.(Sorry)

My client is willing to pay for your time to fix – just let me know the estimated cost.

Thanks for the excellent component.

Steve

Found an issue, getting urlVariables parameter not working

in file FileUploaderStandalone.mxml,
line 60
var c:XMLList=data.children(), n:int=c.length;;
need to be changed to
var c:XMLList=data.children(), n:int=c.length();