Get uploaded file content with Javascript

Question

Is it possible to upload a user file and pass its content to a textarea using javascript/jquery?

Answer 1

Yeah, it's possible.

1. Upload the file using post to a url for ex. http://a.b/c
2. Read the file at the server side. Lets suppose you have another URL such as http://a.b/getcontent which reads that file at server side & replies with the content.
3. You send an AJAX request to /getcontent URL and receive the reply.
4. Change the HTML using javascript accordingly.

Answer 2

I think this open-project should be all you need. It's a JQuery-based file uploader. http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-File-Upload/

Once you have it uploaded, store it in wherever you store it (i.e. your database) and get it back via a JQuery ajax query.