Well, we have all hit upon the little program of mutliple file uploads. We know why it’s such a problem, the cons and pro to it, and the newbs who don’t even know how to zip up files to get around that problem.

Yes, we all know (the people having the know how), that you constantly jazz up your skills to help you do small things fast, to enable the larger picture of your project to be revealed. This is one of those things that you must learn how to just break a project down so you can deal with things faster later.
I digress however that most of the people who require a web based interface to update pictures for a Flex based slideshow for example, won’t see the true power of zipping up their files first before they upload them. The simple one sweep of that mouse to enable the user to collect their files like cards being pulled up off the table from a fresh deck.

No, these users are best served by a form window that prompts them for each file to upload, one at a time. This gets dirty for many reasons, with the most feared being by me, that they won’t have a specification on how many pics they want to upload at a time. Enter nitemare #2, that they want to change the number of pics at anytime.

Thankfully php, javascript, xml and other technologies such as DOM maniuplation has provided many easy outs for the needs we have gotten ourselves into.

I will talk about the best approach right now that I can tell, which is a little library provided free of charge from: the stick man