PHP and SwfUpload

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to implement SwfUpload in my web page, and I'm using php to save files on server. As is the first time I use this component, I choose to run the algoritm is suggested from the SwfUpload team (http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/214): I've put it in a file and I've said the control to use it as code file.

It didn't work, as I'm asking help, but what really drives me crazy is that i really don't know how to debug that stuff! The request to the file is encapsulated into the flash object, and i can't get any feedback from it if something goes wrong.

Anyone is more experienced than me about this control?

Thanks

Answer 1

One thing you can do if all else fails is to make upload.php append to a log file your debug messages. Example: file_put_contents("swfupload.log", print_r($_REQUEST, 1), FILE_APPEND);

The only tricky thing about swfupload that you need to understand, is that the flash component is run with a different cookie jar (for security reasons), so you need to manually tell it (via a flash param) the session_id you currently have on the server, so when it makes the http request to upload.php it passes that session_id in a $_GET param and the php script starts the session with that specific id: session_start($_GET['SESSION_ID']);. From that point on, upload.php behaves just like any other php code with your session data available. You get the $_FILES, move them to their respective folder, save them in db, and that's it.

Answer 2

Well SWFUpload needs to upload the file to some script, so you can log to a file from within that script based on data received...