Comments on: Flash 8 File Upload Download

By: Rafael Souza

Rafael Souza — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:14:13 +0000

To solve session issue in PHP I dont call session_start() in script that process upload request, so to you keep your script safe, make another security check, with a hash for instance

By: Cvetik

Cvetik — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:56:59 +0000

The URL in FileReference.upload(url.php) does not recognize $_SESSION variables (always undefined even when the session is set) â�� anyone else experience this or have a solution?

By: romeo

romeo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:19:56 +0000

Thanks Alex for your c# code, it helps me a lot with Flex.

By: John

John — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:46:04 +0000

Jason: check out my post above and the article I link to (post 117). In firefox the flash file upload gets a separate session from all the other requests, which is what was causing my troubles.

Not sure if you’re having the same problems, but if you are check out that article because I have a solution in there.

Hope that helps.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:41:15 +0000

My implementation of this is working flawlessly in IE but it’s not working in Firefox… I have done what the prior poster suggested which is “substitute the javascript for HTML using param=flashvars”. I am embedding with embed and param tags, no JS.

In firefox when i try to upload the progress bar goes all the way up as if it’s transferring but the files never appear on the server. When i try to download I get a flash dialog window “An IOError occured.”

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

By: kalai

kalai — Wed, 09 May 2007 04:52:28 +0000

Hi,

Well, I was able to ix the ftp issue, what I’ve to do, is call the chmod command for the files being uploaded. chmod ($uploadFile, 0777);
That’s it…

but now i face one more issue. I just want to list the files (SORTED - either date or name) in the rich file upload - destination folder (tree view component). Is there any way to achieve this?

Thanks

By: John

John — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:30:37 +0000

I ran into the same problem with the sessions not being passed and came up with a solution that I’ve posted.

My solution is in Rails, but should be similar with other web frameworks, you can find it here:
http://blog.overlay.tv/articles/2007/05/07/flex-2-file-upload/

By: kalai

kalai — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:24:59 +0000

Yep, I agree, now am fiddling with ways to change the file permission in php, i.e after uploading the file to the specifica folder with 777 permission, am trying to change the permissions of the files to 777..
Still no luck.. let me see..

Anyway thanks for the responding

By: Brajeshwar

Brajeshwar — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:22:22 +0000

@Kalai - I think you have said the answer yourself. It is an FTP issue and flash or this file upload/download module have nothing to do with it.

By: kalai

kalai — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:38:48 +0000

Hi,

I’ve an issue. I’ve a flash uploader to upload multiple files(pdf, doc) to a folder in the server.The upload is working fine. I want to download the files to my desktop using the core http://ftp. But, I see the permission of the folder as 600 and I cannot download them to my pc either. So what’s wrong and how to fix it??