Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal 7 (updated)

Posted on August 21, 2015 by jeremy

Drupal 7.x is the platform we use to build great websites. There are modules 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-1.0.3.1.tgz
Go into the directory
cd uploadprogress-1.0.3.1
Run phpize5.5
phpize5.5
Change php-config to php-config5.5 in configure script
sed -i 's/=php-config/=php-config5.5/g' configure
Run Configure
./configure
Change include directives in Makefile
sed -i 's#-I/usr/include/php#-I/usr/include/php5.5#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.

Links that helped me with the above info:

This is an update from the original Drupal 6 article. (http://jheslop.com/2009/05/27/adding-pecl-uploadprogress-to-11-shared-hosting-for-drupal-filefield/) Just thought I would pass along as it was a little different that the previous article.

Tips on adding PECL uploadprogress to your PHP scripts

Posted on November 4, 2010 by jeremy

I’ve been working on adding PECL Uploadprogress support to the drupal viddler module to give the user a better indication of how long the upload process will take. In this process I ran into a few gotchas that I thought I would pass along.

Make sure to have the UPLOAD_IDENTIFIER hidden element before your file input element. Otherwise it won’t be able to find your uploaded file to monitor.
Use the example code provided to make sure your uploadprogress extension in php is actually working. Since moving to Snow Leopard which is an 64bit OS the module would load, but not work properly. I had to download the latest version for php and put it in the php extensions folder.
If you do anything else after the upload that holds up the form from posting (ie http post to another server) expect the timing for the upload progress to only show the upload to the server’s local disk not the remote call.

I’m sure there were other things I ran into, but these were the major ones. Good luck and happy coding!

Adding PECL Uploadprogress to 1&1 shared hosting for Drupal FileField

Posted on May 27, 2009 by jeremy

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
Run Configure
./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