Wait for your upload to finish type thingy...
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:15 am
Hey guys..
I have a script that is basically a form that allows people to upload 5 to 10 photos to the site. It's pretty standard form handling... they just hit the "Browse.." button for their uploads and then they just hit the form submit button and wait for the page to reload.
The problem is, a lot of users are trying to upload 10 big photos but aren't waiting the proper amount of time for the upload to finish. They will hit the submit button and in about 10 seconds, they don't see anything happen and think they need to hit the submit button again... when really they just need to wait a minute or two for their upload to finish.
Is there any easy way I can make it so that when a user hits the submit button, a little unobtrusive popup comes up with a progress bar or something.. anything of this nature... just to let people know their uploads are being uploaded. Of course.. the form posts to another script URL so I want the page to reload when the uploads are finished.
Any idea what the easiest implementation of something like this is? Thanks for any guidance.
I have a script that is basically a form that allows people to upload 5 to 10 photos to the site. It's pretty standard form handling... they just hit the "Browse.." button for their uploads and then they just hit the form submit button and wait for the page to reload.
The problem is, a lot of users are trying to upload 10 big photos but aren't waiting the proper amount of time for the upload to finish. They will hit the submit button and in about 10 seconds, they don't see anything happen and think they need to hit the submit button again... when really they just need to wait a minute or two for their upload to finish.
Is there any easy way I can make it so that when a user hits the submit button, a little unobtrusive popup comes up with a progress bar or something.. anything of this nature... just to let people know their uploads are being uploaded. Of course.. the form posts to another script URL so I want the page to reload when the uploads are finished.
Any idea what the easiest implementation of something like this is? Thanks for any guidance.