any way to upload a whole directory or multiple files w/ PHP?

[partha]

is there any way I can select more than one file at a time, or a whole directory of files on my local system to upload to a remote server?

[jatar_k]

I have one lying around for multiple images

it checks how many are allowed and just adds a field for each until the max is reached.

The upload script them just looks to see if anything was entered into each box to figure out what to upload.

[dreamcatcher]

Can`t you use FTP?

[dcrombie]

How about the PHP Zip Functions [php.net]?

;)

[partha]

well I was thinking of something where in the "file selector dialog" you can select multiple files at once using CTRL or SHIFT.

OR something where you can just select a directory instead of a file in the dialog.

I have a feeling that might require java, which is ok, but of course it would be nicer to do it without java.

[ergophobe]

Not even Javascript has access to the file structure on the client side (and obviously PHP doesn't) so I think you're stuck with Java or HTML. Since HTML doesn't allow multi-select, it's either Jatar_K's solution or some client-side applet.

[Tapolyai]

The problem is not that much the server side, but client side. Remember that file uploads is a "recent" development in relations to browsers.