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Trying out the latest development snapshot of Drupal 7, I noticed it supports the uploadprogress PEAR/PECL extension, which apparently lets you see the actual progress (with some kind of Ajaxy widget) while uploading files. Sounds cool to me.

First, I installed PEAR (on my Ubuntu testing server):

and then tried to use PEAR to install uploadprogress:

PHPize? What’s that? There’s no phpize package; aptitude search phpize gives nothing.

A bit of digging and I found that PHPize is part of the php5-dev package! After installing that, pecl can install a module just fine:

Solution

After lots of output, PEAR left a final clue:

So I created /etc/php/conf.d/uploadprogress.ini, containing just this line:

I restarted Apache and now Drupal 7 reports “UPLOAD PROGRESS: Enabled”. Now to try it out….!