SWFUpload jQuery Plugin
When I first stumbled across SWFUpload about two years ago I was impressed by how easy it was to implement. However, their example code has always bugged me as being rather crap, having to assign a separate global event handler for each event, and the lack of multiple handlers for a single event.
Using jQuery (the solution to all things painful), I've written a plugin to create a real event dispatcher for SWFUpload without modifying the SWFUpload core!
CakePHP 1.2 Sessions and SWFUpload
Have you ever used SWFUpload to upload more than one file at once without refreshing the page? Of course you have! If you haven't, then I suggest you go read up about it here and here before continuing with this tutorial.
One issue many people run into when using SWFUpload with CakePHP is that sessions are often lost in the upload process. Fortunately there is a way to prevent these incessant session-less side-effects.