Dave Shuck

One task that arises again and again in ColdFusion application development is the need for users to be able to upload multiple files to the Web Server. Back in the stone ages (and by this I mean more than a couple of years ago) we had a limited set of options to be able to do this. Usually a problem such as this was approached using one of three means. Perhaps most crudely, the user would be able to load a file at a time. And if they needed to upload 10 files, that meant 10 round trips to the server and a heck of a lot of clicks. To paraphrase Hal Helms who, I believe, was paraphrasing someone else, this can create a disorder known as Post Back Traumatic Stress Syndrome. To add a level of elegance, some of us began prompting the user ahead of time: "How many files do yo... (more)