Uploading large files with Gears 0.4 on the publish page
Development and Programming
Every time I sell one of my customers on how flexible and wonderful weblogs in Expression Engine are, they end up wanting to upload ridiculously large files as part of their posts. In the past this has required performing unspeakable acts on my apache and PHP configurations. FTP is another route, but it’s a huge challenge for many of my not-so-tech-savy customers; plus it’s just not elegant.
This is no longer the case since Google released Gears 0.4 a couple of weeks ago. They have a method for seamlessly chunking a local file into bite-sized pieces, uploading, and reassembling them on the web-server.
I could not wait to turn this feature into an EE extension, and now I’m excited to share it with the EE community.
It’s actually an extension and a module. The extension does the heavy lifting and the module reassembles the chunks.
I learned how to make extensions that add custom field types by reading Mark Huot’s file extension. Thank you Mark. I learned how to upload with Gears from Brad Neuberg’s MovieTool example, which I translated from python to PHP. Thank you Brad.
This sounds fantastic! Will give this a go sometime today.
You are truly a very kind person for releasing this to the community. I’m sure lots of people will find this very useful indeed.
Best wishes,
Mark
Hey oniracom Sounds very interesting… could you perhaps post some screen shots?
Hi oniracom- Is there any updates on this extension? Have you been able to test it out? Is it stable for a client site?
Wow this sounds perfect. I’ve been struggling with this problem for a while now. Thanks man, will try it out soon
oniracom, When I click on “Select File” nothing happens… installed the extension, module and two lang files. Running FF3 on a mac. Any ideas?
Same problem as arty - have installed google gears, the lang files, ext, and module files into the right places - nothing happens when i click on ‘select file’.
FF3, Mac
I have a site that this would be absolutely PERFECT for. I just got done schooling my clients on the joys of uploading to S3 though. Only if I had seen this a day sooner :-p
I’ll give it a test tomorrow. We have an upgrade schedule for the site in a month or so. Hopefully this works and make the client’s job a little easier.