Custom Session Handlers
Note, this feature doesn't work, when your webserver is runnig PHP via FastCGI. There will be no progress informations in the session array.
Unfortunately PHP gets the data only after the upload is completed and can't show any progress.
I hope this informations helps.
Session Upload Progress
When the session.upload_progress.enabled INI option is enabled, PHP will be able to track the upload progress of individual files being uploaded. This information isn't particularly useful for the actual upload request itself, but during the file upload an application can send a POST request to a separate endpoint (via XHR for example) to check the status.
The upload progress will be available in the $_SESSION superglobal when an upload is in progress, and when POSTing a variable of the same name as the session.upload_progress.name INI setting is set to. When PHP detects such POST requests, it will populate an array in the $_SESSION, where the index is a concatenated value of the session.upload_progress.prefix and session.upload_progress.name INI options. The key is typically retrieved by reading these INI settings, i.e.
<?php
$key = ini_get("session.upload_progress.prefix") . $_POST[ini_get("session.upload_progress.name")];
var_dump($_SESSION[$key]);
?>
It is also possible to cancel the currently in-progress file
upload, by setting the $_SESSION[$key]["cancel_upload"] key to
TRUE.
When uploading multiple files in the same request, this will only cancel the
currently in-progress file upload, and pending file uploads, but will not
remove successfully completed uploads.
When an upload is cancelled like this, the error key in
$_FILES array will be set to
UPLOAD_ERR_EXTENSION.
The session.upload_progress.freq and session.upload_progress.min_freq INI options control how frequent the upload progress information should be recalculated. With a reasonable amount for these two settings, the overhead of this feature is almost non-existent.
Example #1 Example information
Example of the structure of the progress upload array.
<form action="upload.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="<?php echo ini_get("session.upload_progress.name"); ?>" value="123" />
<input type="file" name="file1" />
<input type="file" name="file2" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
The data stored in the session will look like this:
<?php
$_SESSION["upload_progress_123"] = array(
"start_time" => 1234567890, // The request time
"content_length" => 57343257, // POST content length
"bytes_processed" => 453489, // Amount of bytes received and processed
"done" => false, // true when the POST handler has finished, successfully or not
"files" => array(
0 => array(
"field_name" => "file1", // Name of the <input/> field
// The following 3 elements equals those in $_FILES
"name" => "foo.avi",
"tmp_name" => "/tmp/phpxxxxxx",
"error" => 0,
"done" => true, // True when the POST handler has finished handling this file
"start_time" => 1234567890, // When this file has started to be processed
"bytes_processed" => 57343250, // Number of bytes received and processed for this file
),
// An other file, not finished uploading, in the same request
1 => array(
"field_name" => "file2",
"name" => "bar.avi",
"tmp_name" => NULL,
"error" => 0,
"done" => false,
"start_time" => 1234567899,
"bytes_processed" => 54554,
),
)
);
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User Contributed Notes
Session Upload Progress - [11 notes]
s.zarges ¶
1 year ago
isius ¶
9 months ago
If you're seeing
"PHP Warning: Unknown: The session id is too long or contains illegal characters, valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and '-,' in Unknown on line 0",
then a misplaced input could be the cause. It's worth mentioning again that the hidden element MUST be before the file elements.
nihaopaul at gmail dot com ¶
10 months ago
it should be noted that the hidden element come before the file element otherwise you wont get any updates.
Anonymous ¶
2 months ago
dont't forget, that the session has to be initialized before the form is generated, otherwise the mentioned example above won't work.
wojbach at o2 dot pl ¶
1 year ago
"session.upload-progress.name" -> whether here shouldn't be a underscore instead of a dash
gerd dot randolf at web dot de ¶
1 year ago
Note that this will be available from PHP 5.4 on. It won't work in PHP 5.3 or earlier.
takeone ¶
1 year ago
IE6 does not inherit session when you launch new browser from start menu or shortcut.It's the feature.
It is recommended that upload form and progress bar are on same window.
Marvin ¶
22 hours ago
For completion:
Session Upload Progress doesn't work, if session_name is not "PHPSESSID".
Anonymous ¶
20 days ago
While the example in the documentation is accurate, the description is a bit off. To clarify:
PHP will populate an array in the $_SESSION, where the index is a concatenated value of the session.upload_progress.prefix and the VALUE of the POSTed session.upload_progress.name variable.
hgs at cs dot columbia dot edu ¶
23 days ago
You cannot use the APC RFC1867 and this mechanism on the same server. This mechanism will fail silently if the APC session upload progress is enabled. (See bug #62472).