Upload directory from browser possible?

[Gary Mayor]

Hi,
I was hopeing someone could tell me if there is a way to upload a
directory to a script from the browser. I can do it fine with a file at
a time but what about a directory.

Is this possible

Thanks

Gary

 

[brucie]

I was hopeing someone could tell me if there is a way to upload a
directory to a script from the browser. I can do it fine with a file at
a time but what about a directory.

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html#multi

 

[Toby A Inkster]

I was hopeing someone could tell me if there is a way to upload a
directory to a script from the browser. I can do it fine with a file at
a time but what about a directory.

Ask the end user to put the whole directory into a ZIP file, upload that
and then unzip it at the other end.

 

[Talc Ta Matt]

Another option is drag and drop FTP access on the webpage using JS.

I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, so that may not work.

 

[JustAnotherGuy]

Gary Mayor wrote:




Ask the end user to put the whole directory into a ZIP file, upload that
and then unzip it at the other end.

Hm... so there's no mechanism to figure out if a user has selected
multiple files, the way applications can open multiple files?

 

[Gary Mayor]

Thanks for the replies the first answer was a bit depressing because
there seemed no way of doing it. Basically i'm trying to find an easy
way to upload a directory full of image files. At the moment i am asking
the user to zip the directory up then upload it which is a pain. So i'm
hoping there is a way using js or something.

Thanks

 

[Disco Octopus]

Hi,
I was hopeing someone could tell me if there is a way to upload a
directory to a script from the browser. I can do it fine with a file
at a time but what about a directory.

Is this possible

Thanks

Gary

you could try an approach like this one......



<form name="whatsee">
<input name="filething" type="file"
onkeyup="document.whatsee.buttonthing.disabled = (this.value.length == 0)"
/>
<input name="buttonthing" type="submit" disabled value="get another file"
onClick="doWhatYouGottaDo()" />
<input name="gothing" type="submit" />
</form>


.... a bit of script in there, so take care in your reasoning to use it.