Comments on: SwfUploadComponent: A CakePHP Component for Handling File Uploads

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:13:42 +0000

In the article a huge thank you all for the cause, a lot of people are using

By: Japh

Japh — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:48:45 +0000

Hi James,

I know it’s been a while since you wrote this component, but I was just wondering if you were going to do an update for CakePHP 1.2 and SWFUpload 2.1.0?

If so… do you have an ETA?

Thanks,
Japh

By: james

james — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:06:37 +0000

Hi Luke,
I’ll do my best to look into this soon.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Hi James

thanks for all the work you put in on this article and bakery tutorial .

I know it is a long time after you wrote it! I just wanted to ask if you have a copy of the version you mention that would work with cake 1.2?

I am actually having problems with my view part, I got 1.0.2 SWFU from the site and use your sample code and have tried tweaking it so I think I have the form right, but the submit button does nothing when I click on it, despite the javascript not throwing an error.

The swf seems to load on the page too as I check it in view – generated source in FireFox.

By: George

George — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:45:24 +0000

hey,

Great article. I am running the stable release of cakephp : 1.1 and downloaded SWFUPload V2… I was hoping you would could update the article ? I am getting a javascript error here:
swfu.loadUI();
because loadUI is not part of the new version…..

Thanks.

By: rdeman

rdeman — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:13:16 +0000

what about CakePHP V1.2 and SWFUpload V2.x ?
It moved to http://swfupload.org/project
your component was great fo rthe old SWFuplaod and CakePHP v1.1…. any updates?

By: Aeshan

Aeshan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:32:48 +0000

Hi James,
I’m working on a file uploader and would like to use SWFUpload with my cake app.ur example looks handy, but the naming-conventions are different to the latest SWFUpload: like mmSWFUpload insted of SWFUpload.im refering to ur bakery post.would u happen to have a basic example using swfupload 1.0.2 with cakephp 1.2?
Cheers!
Aeshan

By: james

james — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:49:32 +0000

@leo: unfortunately, the mime type sent is entirely in the hands of flash, as you correctly guessed. I think the only recourse at the moment is to write a file-extension-to-mime-type lookup table or hash map and manually figure out what it is before saving it to the database. There are some posts on the SWFUpload site about it. There may be more info there that would be useful to you. Check their forum.

Regarding thumbnail processing, I’m not sure. I thought that the php script was blocking, so I thought it would finish doing whatever was in your upload handling routine. If it’s not, perhaps you could look at thumbnail generation upon the first request of the thumbnail image, rather than as part of the upload. I’ll look into other options and post again if I come up with anything.

@luke: mmSWFUpload was the name of the file when I wrote the first version of the SWFUploadComponent. You’re right – it should just be ‘SWFUpload’. Thank you.

@peter: i wrote it against 1.13. i have no idea what it will do in 1.2. My next version will surely have support for CakePHP 1.2, and it will be released before the end of the month.

@rachel: excellent – I’ll check that out soon.

@timmy: glad I could help.

By: timmy

timmy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:12:54 +0000

Wow, perfect! I was just thinking of integrating this myself and stumbled across your post in the bakery. Thanks for the tutorial.

By: rachel

rachel — Sun, 20 May 2007 16:06:03 +0000

Hi James,

Well, I thank you for creating this wonderful component. I made a few add-ons that maybe of use also to others. Here is the link to my post http://cakensoda.wordpress.com/2007/05/20/swfupload-component/