multiple file upload

i want to make a multiple file upload page. the files uploaded would reach 200 files or more.
I don't want that when my user wants to upload 100 files, i'll give him 100 of those "browse" buttons



can you give me an idea as to what's the flow of the code?
i know there are software programs that can do this, but they're not free. so i'll just stick with coding for now

Well, you could do this with php. Make a php function called make_box()

Then set the link to goto make_box() and the function of make_box would be something like this

echo "code for the text box and button
";

that will make it so that whenever they click the box, it makes a new box, and then skips a line.

hope this helped.

It's also possible in Javascript. It would go something like attaching a click event to add your browse button. Once it finds that there are 100 of those it will stop making it. But the downside is that it wouldn't work when Javascript is disabled. Or you could only allow those with Javascript.

i saw this flash file. I attached it to my php page.
what it does is when i click on it. the directory opens up then i get to select a lot of files. my problem now is that i don't know how to save those files in a folder. or save it to my sql table.

flash file

that's the site where i got the flash file.

There's a number of free Flash uploaders and the same could probably be said for Silverlight. I know it can be a bit of a pain to use a rich application plug-in like those, but for uploading files, it's arguably a better option.

thank you everyone for helping me
i was able to solve this already.
i dissected the code offered by uploadify. Took me a lot of time to understand...haha..@_@
in case somebody bumps into something like this. just try searching for uploadify