How do I install PECL uploadprogress library

It may not be Drupal Specific, but it is present on the status report (admin/reports/status) for Drupal 7:

Your server is capable of displaying file upload progress, but does not have the required libraries. It is recommended to install the PECL uploadprogress library (preferred) or to install APC.

Consequently, it should be addressed in one way or another in Drupal 7

Just wanted to share that there is now documentation on installing PECL which includes a lot of information from this thread:
http://drupal.org/node/793264

I installed the Acquia version of Drupal:
I'm normally a .Net framework developer, but how do I get to the apache prompt (isn't this were I'm Terminal is) to compile to file?

The link to the pecl4win server is not available.

Thanks for your help!...

Thanks a lot, it worked for me. My server is a vps fedora 7 moonshine.

i had to install php-devel to run phpize and "Development Tools" to run "./configure"

Run the command below in terminal to get phpize

apt-get install php5-dev.

Thank you very much! It works for me! I am using VertrigoServ. What I did was just

1. downloaded the .dll file
2. uploaded it to PHP/ext folder
3. went to the servers Settings->Extension settings and enabled/check the php_uploadprogress.dll
4. restarted the server
5. refreshed the status report page and Upload progress is already enabled!

Great help! Thanks!

Thanks, worked like a charm. :)

After following most recipes and failing miserably, I finally found the solution!

A lot of people seem to run into the same issue, they have several versions of PHP installed , such as 5.2 & 5.3 , and doing the following doesn't work because the extension is not compiled by the version they're using, resulting in a warning that the module cannot be loaded.

      $ phpize            # prepares the PHP extension for compiling
      $ ./configure
      $ make
      $ sudo make install

A comment left on this page saved the day.

      If you have multiple PHP versions installed, you may be able to specify for which installation 
      you'd like to build by using the --with-php-config option during configuration.

       --with-php-config=[Insert path to proper php-config here]

      For example (my case):
      ./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/php5/bin/php-config5

thanks kiwi_steve
Worked by me.

That's interesting. They told me their policy was not install it. They said it could cause problems with other domains and wasn't required by Drupal.

I am on a shared HostGator plan. It took me less than 10 minutes on Live Chat to have the latest uploadprogress library installed. It is among the items they do for you, if you ask.
My Status report looks so-o-o good now.
:)

Genius : ) Thanks for that : ) So simple on a localhost wamp setup. Cheers

Thanks mate, your instructions were so simple and worked like a charm! :-)

NO NEED TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING.
Check you have php.ini in your EasyPHP\conf_files directory. If not, I took a copy from the \Apache directory (which was correctly configured). Open php.ini with wordpad or similar and remove the ';' from the line as follows
from
;extension=php_uploadprogress.dll
to
extension=php_uploadprogress.dll

Restart EasyPHP and its all go.

pecl4win is down for ages, so you can get PECL DLLs at http://www.sfr-fresh.com/windows/www/php-5.3.6-src.zip/

I outlined it here - http://drupal.org/node/606780#comment-2176280

Many thanks for Your excellent help. It sent me in the right direction for the info on installation of the uploadprogress.

This comment may not help everybody in this thread since the commands described here are submitted on a command line in a terminal window.
It may document how easy it is to install this on a Debian (in fact Ubuntu flavour) system in case You are running Your own webserver.

1. Install make and the development files for php5:
   sudo apt-get install make php5-dev
2. Configuration, compilation and installation is done completely automatically with the command:
   sudo pecl install uploadprogress-1.0.1
   After a few seconds the result should be:

   Build process completed successfully
   Installing '/usr/lib/php5/20060613/uploadprogress.so'
   install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/uploadprogress-1.0.1
   configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
   You should add "extension=uploadprogress.so" to php.ini
   

Assuming that You already have a running Drupal system, it is easy to see
the php configuration at /admin/reports/status/php

Then it is easy to see which php.ini file should be edited.
In order to keep the php configuration modular, I ended up doing this:
echo -e "extension=uploadprogress.so" > /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/uploadprogress.ini

Now reload the webserver configuration:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
alternatively:
sudo service apache2 reload

The Drupal status page promptly displays:

Upload progress	Enabled (PECL uploadprogress) 

Any pro server admin would proudly do it this way.
Best whishes ...

You can ask the host to install it for your use, some do some refuse. If they refuse there's nothing you can do except change hosts.

Like you I am on a shared host, but with shell access (DreamHost). I managed to compile the uploadprogress extension as follows. Note: these instructions are (most probably) only for DreamHost users

make a temporary directory for compiled gnu binaries, unpack, compile and install the following source packages:
- m4 (from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-latest.tar.gz)
- autoconf (from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz)
- automake (from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-latest.tar.gz)
also, download the source PECL uploadprogress library (from http://pecl.php.net/get/uploadprogress-1.0.1.tgz)

First prepare an environment variable and create a temp path

mkdir $HOME/gnu
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/gnu

Then

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-latest.tar.gz
tar -xzf m4-latest.tar.gz
cd m4-x-x
./configure -prefix=$HOME/gnu
make
make install
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/gnu/bin

Now do the same trick for autoconf and automake (except the export PATH line)

Then, unpack the uploadprogress package somewhere and..

tar -xzf uploadprogress-x-x.tar.gz
cd uploadprogress-x-x
export PHP_PREFIX=/usr/local/php5/bin
$PHP_PREFIX/phpize
./configure -prefix=$HOME/gnu -with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/php-config
make

... resulting in a freshly compiled uploadprogress.so

Most likely, since you're on a shared server, you don't have access to the webserver's "extension_dir". For that reason you're advised to create a CGI-wrapper for your php installation and use a custom php.ini where you will be including the uploadprogress extension:

1) create the wrapper: see http://wiki.dreamhost.com/PHP.ini
2) add the following line to your custom php.ini and make sure extension_dir points to the directory where your uploadprogress.so is located

extension_dir = /path/to/your/uploadprogress/file/
extension="uploadprogress.so"

3) kill all fastcgi processes: see http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FastCGI
4) reload your browser and check whether your status_report tells you the following: Upload progress: Enabled (PECL uploadprogress). You can also use some php-script calling phpinfo();

Good luck

i followed your instructions, have centos5, but in my case pecl install uploadprogress resulted in "phpize not found".

had to run this first to install phpize:
yum install php-devel

my php.ini was in /etc/php.ini

everything else worked. thanks!

The best instructions so far!

The only things I would add is you might first need to add GCC, MAKE etc for the compilation.
All of which is a cinch with yum - yum gcc etc - all one line commands available on the net.

Finally, the .so file might not get installed in the default php/modules folder
And you can't change extensions_dir like it says in freestylesystems.co.uk/blog/installng-pecl-uploadprogress-extension-drupal-filefield-module because then none of the other extensions work including mysql.

I found that moving the uploadprogress.so file to the default extensions folder in php.ini works just as well.

This worked great for me on my minimal FC13 install after adding gcc, make, and php-devel as the other people said.

You don't have to restart apache, just reload: /etc/init.d/httpd reload OR service httpd reload

I struggled for a long time with this, but the above worked perfectly; thanks!

One more how to on how to compile PECL extension under MAMP Leopard and Snow Leopard. The article also provide precompiled drop versions of uploadprogress to be used on OS 10.5 and 10.6. http://smbjorklund.no/how-enable-pecl-uploadprogress-extention-mamp

@steinmb

before you attempt anything like that you should check with the host. If they don't allow it, it won't matter how you get it up on the site, it won't work. Many shared hosts don't support PECL extensions or one sort or another. However, those that do are likely to allow installation from cpanel/hosting panel.