This makes the uploading of the content easy.
This technology (Ajax) enables us to get data to the web server without having to use the POST requests and reload the web page for the new content and similarly it also enables us to send any data to the server, such as files, images and other data, to the web server. An Ajax request is an asynchronous request to the server to get some resources from the server and display it in the web page without needing to reload the web page.
In JavaScript, we can shorten the code for creating an Ajax request. This option also minimizes the chances for error for any file that was triggered in the old methods and the user was informed of those errors after he uploaded all of the HTTP request data. You can manage which file to upload and which one to reject. But he can still view the results and other associated data, such as form elements and the result window.īut these are also old now, JavaScript is strong enough to upload your files and using HTML5 you can easily work your way with the validations of files too. Which means that if the form is submitted using an iframe then the main page the user is at is never submitted. The iframe is just another HTML document embedded in your main HTML document that if even navigated to any other web page it doesn't trigger a navigation event in the main page. Well before HTML5, people used hidden iframes to target the form to be uploaded from. The web is changing and there are many new ways for a user to upload an image or file to the server, without having to submit the form as he did back in 90s. Sometimes, the connection is lost and other stuff! This is a bit irritating and awkward, because the user uploaded more like 5 photos among them with one getting an error and the remaining 4 were also discarded and the user was told after 2 minutes to upload the 4 photos only and not that one specific image. That would let them select a file and then they will click on the Submit button that would then take them to a new page, where they will be shown the message, “Your photos have been uploaded”, or an error message telling them that there was an error. In the old days, people would create a simple HTML form and assign the enctype to it. The point is, we didn’t catch that return message with our simple example.Most websites use HTML5 and jQuery plugins to upload files without requiring the user to send a POST request to the server but that is not a productive way to upload files. An upload is a two-sided conversation, with the SDK telling the API “here’s a file”, and the API responding “Thanks! Awfully sweet of you to send me this present, and I’m super excited about all the things we can do with it together! For convenience, let’s refer to this file as XYZ123ABC from now on so we’ll know exactly which one we’re talking about in the future!” I mean, it’s a little more technical than that but you get the idea. When a file is uploaded, a unique File Handle is generated and assigned to that upload. However, you’ll likely want to do at least one more thing beyond uploading the files: capture the resulting File Handles. That’s all it takes to present a File Picker on a page and receive the uploaded files to your Filestack app (the one associated with the APIKEY you swap in to the code example above). Var client = filestack.init('APIKEY').picker().open()
But what if you just want to create a simple HTML page and handle file uploads from there? It’s super easy, so here’s a recipe you can start with today: I’ve been providing example code recipes for uploading files using Filestack’s various SDKs, including JavaScript/TypeScript in Node, PHP, Python, and Ruby so far.