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In a form in PHP, I have a textarea and a Choose File option. The code for Choose File is as below
<input name="upload_file" type="file" id="Browse" title="Browse" value="Browse" />
What I have to do is Choose a file and display its contents in the textarea, as soon as I select the file (No click event to happen).
How can I go about it? I am not very sure of how I can get a handle of the file object?
This is impossible using a
fileupload: You won’t have “live” access to the file through JavaScript.You would have to actually upload the file. You could then request its contents back in an Ajax request (or upload the file into a hidden iframe, output its contents there and grab them through JavaScript).
Flash can access files on the client’s computer directly. Uploaders like SWFUpload use this to resize images on client side. If you’re versed in Flash, it should be fairly easy to put something together.