jQuery recursive function to upload many files while giving the user some feedback

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Published on 2010-04-15T10:10:44Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 10:13 UTC
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Hi guys, I'm trying to write a jQuery function to let users upload many files at once. Here's the function I thought to give the user some feedback about the upload process progress.

function uploadFiles(numbersOfFiles, start) {
   $("#info").html(start + " files uploaded");
   $.post('upload.php', {
      start: start
   }, function (data) {
      start += 5;
      if (start < numbersOfFiles) {
         $("#info").html(start + " files uploaded");
         uploadFiles(numbersOfFiles, start);
      } else {
         $("#info").html("All files have been uploaded");
      }
   });
}

The function calls a php script to upload 5 files, then if there are more files to upload it calls the script again. The whole process works. I've tried it with 100 files. The only thing that doesn't work is the #info div updating. The div get updated the first time and then again only to show "All files have been uploaded". So there's no feedback for the user about the uploading process. I can't understand why... Any help?

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