Quick Start with HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript

Supported technologies: Adobe Flash

HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript is a set of JavaScript classes intended to embed HTML5/Flash Uploader into a web page via <script type="text/javascript"> block. This JavaScript (aurigma.imageuploaderflash.js) is a base for HTML5/Flash Uploader ASP.NET and HTML5/Flash Uploader PHP. Using the JavaScript library is more complicated: it requires configuring HTML5/Flash Uploader parameters manually and does not provide facilities to handle uploaded data server-side. However, it is more flexible and can be used with any HTTP-compliant server platform (not only ASP.NET or PHP).

Adding HTML5/Flash Uploader to Page

To add HTML5/Flash Uploader to the page you just need to perform the following steps:

Copy the /Scripts folder to your web application. It can be found in HTML5/Flash Uploader installation folder (usually this is C:\Program Files\Aurigma\Upload Suite 8.5.81\HTML5-Flash\).

Note

It is recommended to use minified versions of HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript scripts in production environment in order to preserve bandwidth. These files support the same functions as usual HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript, but have been optimized in size. The minified versions contain .min.js in their filenames.

Link the aurigma.imageuploaderflash.js, aurigma.htmluploader.control.js, and aurigma.htmluploader.control.css files with the page which will host HTML5/Flash Uploader.

JavaScript

<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.imageuploaderflash.js">  </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.htmluploader.control.js">  </script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Scripts/css/aurigma.htmluploader.control.css" />

Add JavaScript block to the position where you want to insert HTML5/Flash Uploader. Here create a new instance of the imageUploaderFlash class and specify its identifier via the imageUploaderFlash.id parameter.
JavaScript
```
<script type="text/javascript">
    var u = $au.imageUploaderFlash({id: 'Uploader1'});
    
    // configure HTML5/Flash Uploader

    u.writeHtml();
</script>        
```
Then configure it in the way described in the following sections and call the imageUploaderFlash.writeHtml() method.

Note:
As soon as you call the imageUploaderFlash.writeHtml(), all necessary HTML code is inserted into the page at the current position. Alternatively, you can get the string with appropriate HTML code using the imageUploaderFlash.getHtml() method, and write it to the necessary position manually (maybe with some modifications).

Defining Uploader Type

By default, HTML5/Flash Uploader has HTML5 Uploader enabled. If a user opens a page in a HTML5-compliant browser (see the supported browsers table), HTML5 Uploader is displyed. Otherwise Flash Uploader comes up. You can change this behavior by defining upload technology in your application (you will need this customization if you plan to use one the features which are not supported by HTML5 Uploader). Use the type property to perform this. The property possible values are "html|flash" (default value), "flash|html", "html", and "flash".

The following snippet configures HTML5/Flash Uploader to use the Flash control by default, and the HTML5 control if the client browser does not support flash:

JavaScript

var u = $au.imageUploaderFlash({
    id: 'Uploader1',
    type: 'flash|html'
});
u.writeHtml();

Uploading Files

Here we discuss the use HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript by the example of a simple file catalog. Suppose that the catalog requires a user to upload files of various types and displays links to download these files. To implement this we should configure an imageUploaderFlash object and save uploaded files on a server. The sections below describe these steps in detail.

Configuring

To configure HTML5/Flash Uploader you should set properties of the imageUploaderFlash object. See the HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript Reference for the detailed information about available properties.

The properties accepting objects (such us imageUploaderFlash.upload() or converters) should be specified in JSON format. Using this format you can also initialize all the imageUploaderFlash properties when creating it. Moreover, you can use the imageUploaderFlash.set(Object) method which accepts a JSON formatted string containing one or several properties definition.

Here is the source code of the main page of our catalog:

JavaScript

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Embedding Scripts Library Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.imageuploaderflash.js">  </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.htmluploader.control.js">  </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Scripts/css/aurigma.htmluploader.control.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var u = $au.imageUploaderFlash({
            id: 'Uploader1',
            width: '650px',
            height: '480px',
            licenseKey: 'XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX',
            converters: [
                { mode: '*.*=SourceFile' }
            ], 
            uploadSettings: {
                actionUrl: 'Upload.aspx',
                redirectUrl: 'Catalog.aspx'
            }
        });
        
        u.writeHtml();
    </script>
</body>
</html>

On this page we set mandatory parameters, such as HTML5/Flash Uploader identifier and path to the aurigma.imageuploaderflash.swf file, as well as optional parameters required by our file catalog. Here we specify server upload script and a page to which a user will be redirected when the upload successfully completes. To configure HTML5/Flash Uploader to send original files we used the imageUploaderFlash.converters property which accepts an array of converter objects. Each object specifies what will be uploaded (original file as is, thumbnail created from original image file, icon associated with original file, or original file compressed into ZIP archive) for each of the user-selected files. Since we need to upload only the original files, we set one converter with the SourceFile mode. Read more about converters in the Configuring Files to be Uploaded in HTML5/Flash Uploader topic.

One more significant property is imageUploaderFlash.licenseKey which specifies trial or full license key. If license key is not set HTML5/Flash Uploader will not send files (the exception is usage of uploader on localhost domain). See the Registering HTML5/Flash Uploader topic for details.

Handling Upload

According to the catalog requirements, we save original files to the /Catalog folder. The way to implement it depends on your server platform. Find the detailed instructions and code samples on how to save uploaded files in ASP.NET and PHP in the Saving Uploaded Files in HTML5/Flash Uploader ASP.NET and Saving Uploaded Files in HTML5/Flash Uploader PHP articles.

Displaying Uploaded Files

On the configuring step we set the uploadSettings.redirectUrl property. It specifies a page to which HTML5/Flash Uploader will redirect users after the upload is successfully completed. It would be convenient to list links to the uploaded files here. To implement this functionality we iterate through all the files stored in the /Catalog folder and display a link to each of them.

The script which generates this page depends on your server platform. For example, if you save uploaded files in ASP.NET, you can use the script listed in the Quick Start with HTML5/Flash Uploader ASP.NET topic. For PHP platform use the analogue from the Quick Start with HTML5/Flash Uploader PHP article.

Uploading Images

One more example of HTML5/Flash Uploader usage is an image gallery. Suppose, it requires a user to upload original images along with their downsized copies. This task can be divided into the same phases as the previous one.

Configuring

The configuration of the imageUploaderFlash object used for our image gallery is almost the same as for the file catalog described above.

JavaScript

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>Embedding Scripts Library Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.imageuploaderflash.js">  </script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="Scripts/aurigma.htmluploader.control.js">  </script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Scripts/css/aurigma.htmluploader.control.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript">
        var u = $au.imageUploaderFlash({
            id: 'Uploader1',
            width: '650px',
            height: '480px',
            licenseKey: 'XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXX',
            converters: [
                { mode: '*.*=SourceFile' },
                { mode: '*.*=Thumbnail;*.*=Icon', thumbnailFitMode: 'Fit', thumbnailWidth: '120', thumbnailHeight: '120' }
            ], 
            uploadSettings: {
                actionUrl: 'Upload.aspx',
                redirectUrl: 'Gallery.aspx'
            }
        });
        
        u.writeHtml();
    </script>    
</body>
</html>

The difference is that we set an additional converter to specify a thumbnail which will be created for each image file and will be fitted to 120x120 pixels. For non-image files this converter will send icons. Read more about converters in the Configuring Files to be Uploaded in HTML5/Flash Uploader topic.

Handling Upload

The gallery stores original images and their thumbnails in /Gallery/ and /Gallery/Thumbnails/ folders respectively. The way to implement it depends on your server platform. Find the detailed instructions and code samples on how to save uploaded files in ASP.NET and PHP in the Saving Uploaded Files in HTML5/Flash Uploader ASP.NET and Saving Uploaded Files in HTML5/Flash Uploader PHP articles.

Displaying Uploaded Files

On the configuring step we set the uploadSettings.redirectUrl property. It specifies a page to which HTML5/Flash Uploader will redirect users after the upload is successfully completed. It would be convenient to display uploaded files here. To implement this functionality we iterate through all the previews stored in the /Gallery/Thumbnails/ folder and display each thumbnail as a link to its original image (original images are stored in the /Gallery/ folder).

Quick Start with HTML5/Flash Uploader JavaScript

Adding HTML5/Flash Uploader to Page

Defining Uploader Type

Uploading Files

Configuring

Handling Upload

Displaying Uploaded Files

Uploading Images

Configuring

Handling Upload

Displaying Uploaded Files

See Also

Reference

Manual