User Friendly Uploads, In a Flash!
Often times in custom solutions for clients I need the ability to quickly and easily implement an upload method without the built in capabilities most open source content management systems provide. I am also not in the business of charging extreme amounts of money to cover the costs associated with buying the licenses needed for the fancier “more robust” upload utilities so any savings I can pass on to my clients, the better. One thing I came across a while back and have been ever so amused with is the In-a-Flash Upload Utility.
What makes this particular utility so wonderful is that it can be dropped into just about any PHP project with such little effort that you almost forget you even did it. This FREE utility also boasts several useful features you don’t often find without having to pull your wallet out and part with your hard earned cash. Still not sure? Check it out for yourself, the website even has a live example to show you how it works and they even have a Perl version if that is what you are in to.
From the In-a-Flash website:
As a PHP developer, I knew there must be a better way to handle file uploads and display the upload status using PHP (and now Python!) as the server side language. I found tons of “solutions”, but they were PERL-based and/or just a huge pain to setup. Time is money. I needed something that I could just drop into a site, change very few lines of code, and be done with it.
Features:
- Customizable colors
- 2 styles to choose from: bar or text
- Free PHP and Python scripts to get you started
- Shows file upload progress
- Multiple file upload capable
- Restrict file types
- Javascript integration – call a javascript function after file upload
- …plus many other customizable options!