# Upload
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 20, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042 "2004-08-20T04:40:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@something369](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/something369)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/1 "2004-08-20T04:40:51Z")
Hey,
Is there any way I can use flash to upload things, such as a picture?
And if not, what can I use with a flash site to upload a pic?
Thanx.
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2004, 10:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/2 "2004-08-20T10:51:04Z")
There are two major problems involved in uploading with Flash:
1. Flash does not have a built in file browser like HTML forms have. I believe there is a component out there that does this, although I tried it and it didn’t really work well. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t others out there that might work though.
2. Flash cannot write a file to a server, which is pretty necessary in uploading a file. Therefore you’ll have to use a server-side to handle the actual uploading and have it communicate with Flash to let the users in Flash know whether their upload was successful or not etc.
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### Author:  [@something369](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/something369)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/3 "2004-08-21T07:26:30Z")
So what can I do if I want to upload… I mean I understand there are problems, but is that the same as saying it impossible? Can’t I use some kind of intermediate program to bridge flash with uploading capablities?
Thanx.
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/4 "2004-08-21T08:48:32Z")
You’ll first want to look out for a tool that can browse the files on the user computer from Flash, but to be honest I don’t think there are many out there that do this and that work. Next, you’ll want to look into uploading with a serverside language like PHP, and integration of PHP with Flash (LoadVars.load, LoadVars.send, etc). Or otherwise a tool that will automise the whole uploading process for you from within Flash itself. Good luck finding some.
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### Author:  [@something369](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/something369)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/5 "2004-08-22T00:29:07Z")
Yaaahhh (sarcasm)… its amazing how things that look so simple never are! I’ll see what I come up with.
Thanx bro.
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### Author:  [@vik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vik)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/6 "2004-08-22T19:58:25Z")
Hi!!! try this link…
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/yamzbrowser/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/yamzbrowser/)
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/upload/120042/7 "2004-08-22T21:59:53Z")
Yup, that’s the one I tried and that’s the one that didn’t work.