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Mehul M.'s avatar
Mehul M.
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11 years ago

How To Get Upload Progress Of A Uploading File With Dropbox Core API?

I'm currently using PHP + jQuery + Ajax to upload a file to my own dropbox account using localhost. I need to know how can I add a progressbar to this. Is there any way to do this? Currently I'm uplo...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

The PHP Core SDK doesn't currently offer a way to track progress on file uploads using uploadFile, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a request.

For reference, the uploadFile method just blocks until the upload is complete. Alternatively, especially for larger files, you may want to use the "chunked uploading" methods manually, in which case you'l be able to see when each chunk is done:

http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-php/api-docs/v1.1.x/class-Dropbox.Client.html#chunkedUploadStart
http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-php/api-docs/v1.1.x/class-Dropbox.Client.html#_chunkedUploadContinue
http://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-php/api-docs/v1.1.x/class-Dropbox.Client.html#chunkedUploadFinish

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