Firefox jQuery Drag and Drop File Upload together with PHP

Question

Hi,

Hoping to get some assistance but I am after a jQuery/PHP means of allowing a user to drag and drop files and then via PHP, upload one or more files to a specific directory on a Linux box.

I only have Firefox 3.6 as my base browser but can also move to FFox if need be.

Cann use any HTML5 features as long as I'm using Firefox 3.6

Can someone possibly point me to any examples/sites where this process is demonstrated?

I have had a look at http://www.plupload.com/index.php but this does not work in IE6.

As mentioned, would like it to work in FFox only.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Looking for a solution that does this on IE 6 is really, really building a stall for a dead horse IMO.

It may perhaps be possible using some proprietary - and likely commercial - ActiveX or Java plug-in - I'm not sure. But why go through that, when native support is around the corner in HTML 5?

Firefox 3.6 is the one browser that at the moment provides best support for it, so I would recommend to target that for the moment, and other browsers as they catch up in functionality... Whatever you do, I would really not waste time trying to get stuff like this working in IE 6 except if there is a really, really compelling reason why that specific browser has to be supported.

Answer 2

http://github.com/weixiyen/jquery-filedrop