Control to select multiple image files to upload? Options

[nmduc073]

Hi,
I need to write a control to upload the pictures. When user browses to select the pictures on the local computer, it allows you to select multiple files. Can you tell me how I can do it, please? I think it might be Java applet or somethings like that. .NET controls might be difficult to select multiple files.

Thank in advance,
Duc

[Brian Chandler]

"Control" is emasculated M$-ese for a "widget", I suppose...

Anyway, there are no widgets in html, really, just form elements; and the file selection has to be done by the user, for obvious security reasons, so you don't need to, and indeed can't do anything about it.

[nmduc073]

You might misunderstand me. The selection is certainly done by user. This user control's functionality should look like Windows Explorer which user can select multiple files.

This post has been edited by nmduc073: Aug 23 2007, 11:19 PM

[Brian Chandler]

You might misunderstand me. The selection is certainly done by user. This user control's functionality should look like Windows Explorer which user can select multiple files.

If I understand correctly now, this is a MS-Windows programming issue, then? Nothing to do with html, really, let alone server-side scripting? Perhaps you need to try an MS-Windows programming forum?

Or perhaps, as you say, you hope to write a Java applet, that you include in the page, and it just handles the file upload? (Ah, how "convenient"... M$-thinking at its purest!) Well, basically you can't, because I the archetypal user don't trust your (or anyone else's) website with access to my file system. Here's a sample page about this:

http://www.duckware.com/applets/reference.html (section 2: Security)

HTH

[nmduc073]

Thank you for reply.

[Darin McGrew]

A more robust approach is to have a submit button on the original form that adds another file input element. The server-side program returns another copy of the form, this time with an additional file input element.

[pandy]

Why not have several INPUT type="file" from start? The way many "file managers" have it.

[DenialWhite]

Check Ajax Uploader.

It allows you to select multiple files and upload multiple files at once.

http://ajaxuploader.com/Demo/select-multip...les-upload.aspx