Batch Image Upload

[eluser]darrenm[/eluser]
You may also want to look into Swf Upload

It's had a few issues dealing with Flash Player 10 and is not as elegant as it used to be, but it's still a great way to upload multiple files with progress indicators etc.

Quite a learning curve to get it integrated in an application but your users will thank you in the end. It will solve many of your timeout troubles as you're moving a lot of the heavy processing over to Ajax routines.

It does - eventually - integrate into CI nicely but you may have to solve some authentication problems as the Flash Player will initiate a new session when it connects.

That all sounds a bit negative doesn't it?! Didn't mean to. Once it's all working it makes a HUGE difference to your application.