Posted by Danny Boy on 04/21/07 09:09

Hi Aho,

Thanks for more.

> No, it's not limited to use one file per file-input-field, a quick search on
> google.com did generate a file-input-field that handled 3 files (not too much
> work to adopt this for more files).

Yes, I did that and mailed him 3-4 promising URLs and suggested that he
might at least take a look at them. I also suggested this java applet
(which, as I understand, isn't very hard to implement). Regretfully, he
replied with some attitude and just refused.

>
> It's quite important to write down on paper what you want, as this you can
> then use in court if there is something you feel you didn't get.

> Personally I would call 4 files for a batch, but taking that to court will
> depend quite much on the judge and his knowledge about programming what he may
> rule, but it feels for me that the guy you contracted took the easy way.

Nah... this is a very small job and just a few $$. No court, no lawyers
or anything like that.

> I still suggest you take a look at freshmeat.net for a portal/cms that
> supports patch uploads, they could give you a lot of features you haven't yet
> thought about and you said you are good at css, then you won't have troubles
> at all with making your own theme for the site and many portals/cms do use
> modules, which makes it easy to add new features. Of course if you already
> have a lot of quite special tools, then it can be difficult to move to
> something new.

I took a look there (thanks for suggestion) and have bookmarked for the
future.

Cheers,
Danny

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