It's a browser control built using Adobe Flash technology. It is meant to replace HTML's very limited <input type="file"> tag.

Why replace <input type="file">? It's awkwardly uncustomisable (try changing style on that “Browse” button) and it's very inconvenient. You don't see what's going on when uploading files, there is no way to display upload progress, and you get upload error only when your form is completely submited to the server and all the files are uploaded. That's a no good scenario… at least in our books.

That's where Flash Uploader comes in. It displays neat progress indicator, it does many file verification routines (filetype, max size) on client-side and it's customisable beyond recognition, both visually and functionally.

Among other features:

• Extensive list of visualization options, including custom animations, colors and backgrounds;
• Flash Player 8 compatibility;
• Exntensive upload handling/securing PHP backend;
• Easily integrates with existing HTML forms;
• Transparent fallback compatibility with browsers not supporting Flash 8;
• Easy to integrate;
• Supports multilingual instances;
• JavaScript API;
• FREE for any user (yes even commercial!)

Check out our Demo and see for yourself what our control can do.

Download current release:

SOLMETRA Flash Uploader v1.02 (download here - ZIP 136 KB)