Ninjakreborn Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I want to create a flash upload system (easy). I need a backend to process it (easy). Last element is I want to have "drag and drop" usability. I don't think this can be accomplished with PHP or Java Script. I know it can be easily done with java, and I am wanting to create something to do this but the server the site is on is not in java. What are my options. I have heard that you can have java ran from one server to work properly. Do I have any other options?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 AFAIK Flash runs client-side so it cannot do it alone. You'd still need PHP or another server-side scripting language. I might be wrong though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 Any scripting language is great. I can use PHP, but the only way I ever saw to get the initial drag/drop features working for desktop was with java. What is "AFAIK Flash" I did a search on it and found nothing specifically about what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfmason Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I would avoid using flash if possible. You may want to look into scriptaculous and prototype. If it has to been done with flash this may help http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/26/1/Drag-n-Drop-and-Drop-Targets/Page1.html and http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/upload/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 Sorry I left that part out. Drag/Drop is easy with either flash or ajax. Those are not problems. It's the desktop drag/drop. Basically dragging a file, or folder full of files into a draggable area on a site and it shows them as uploaded. Afterwards they upload the files after they are done dragging/dropping (also hopefully it'lly support copy/paste) I have seen A LOT of stuff on it but it's all on java and that server doesn't support java. Are there any other options for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 "AFAIK Flash" I did a search on it and found nothing specifically about what it is. AFAIK = As far as I know http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/afaik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted May 24, 2007 Author Share Posted May 24, 2007 Ah ok. Flash itself can't handle drag/drop from a desktop. However when checking with the host I think java can be used on there server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 (edit: I dont think) A browser itself isn't able to handle this type of functionality. You'd need to write an entire stand alone client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The intranet at work has Explorer <> IE drag and drop functionality. And I seem to recall Cpanel 11 offers something similar using a IE plugin. Don't ask me for details though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 My two-cents: As thorpe said, you'd have to build a drag and drop browser/java applet. Note: this java applet is client side. Java when run on the client has much more access to the local filesystem, and also can establish a connection to a php server side script. So - what you need to do is to code a java applet which will allow you to drag and drop a file on the local computer, and then upload this file to a php (or other server side) script. You do not need java on the server. I dont think it would even help. Java Applet on Client -> uploads -> server script (php etc.) -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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