Drupal 6.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules FileField and ImageField 3.0 that allow the ability to update a progress meter when uploading a file. This requires installing a PECL extension to PHP called uploadprogress. Here is the process I used to get it working on a 1and1.com hosting package. You will need a hosting package with ssh support currently the Business and Developer packages do.
- Download PECL uploadaccess to your 1&1 account
- Extract the package
tar xvzf uploadprogress-1.0.0.tgz - Go into the directory
cd uploadprogress-1.0.0 - Run phpize5
phpize5 - Change php-config to php-config5 in configure script
sed -i 's/=php-config/=php-config5/g' configure - Change include directives in Makefile
sed -i 's#-I/usr/local/include/php#-I/usr/include/php5#g' Makefile - Run make and make test
make
make test - Make new extensions folder for new extension to go in
mkdir ~/extensions - Copy uploadprogress extension to new folder
cp .libs/uploadprogress.so ~/extensions/ - Create new php.ini under your main folder (or under a single subfolder for just that application) to add new extension_dir then add this code to the file
extension_dir=/kunden/homepages/6/d87663654/htdocs/extensions/
extension=uploadprogress.so
That should be it. You should now be able to see the “Upload progress Enabled (PECL uploadprogress)” on the admin/reports/status page in Drupal.
