Common reasons to use Sizable Send File Upload infrastructure for your upload script:

• Blazing fast speed – Take advantage of our high speed servers;  your uploads and downloads will be lightning fast!
• Reliability – We have servers all over the globe, and all file uploads are hosted on the cloud. Making sure that our upload infrastructure is always available to handle your uploads.
• Simplicity – Don’t want to worry about setting up and managing upload/download servers? Don’t want to worry about the HUGE costs associated with the bandwidth and disk space necessitated in uploading and storing large files? Use our infrastructure! After all, it’s free… Let us foot the costs and the headache for you.
• Integration speed – By utilizing our file upload infrastructure you can literally add a couple of lines of code to your website and immediately be uploading and sharing large files. Your customers, clients and friends will be able to send you an unlimited amount of files up to 2GB each and it’s all free!

How to use Sizable Send infrastructure to send and share large files:

1. Create a standard POST file upload script.
   • You do this by creating a standard HTML form and adding an input attribute of “file”. You can do this in any programming language. An example is provided later in this article.
2. Point the “Action” of the HTML form to our servers:
   • If the file is between 0MB and 480MB in size make the “Action” of the form point to “http://www.sizablesend.com/scripts/upload.php”.
   • If the file is between 481MB and 2000MB in size make the “Action” of the form point to “http://largefiles.sizablesend.com/scripts/upload.php”.
3. Make sure that your upload form has the required form attributes listed as “required” in Table 1A below.
4. That’s it!!!

Table 1A – File uploader attributes:

Sample file upload form:

<form id="uploader" name="uploader" method="post" action="http://www.sizablesend.com/scripts/upload.php">
<input name="sess_id" id="sess_id" type="hidden" value="{You need to generate this dynamically at http://api.sizablesend.com/v1/GenerateSessionID/}" />
<input name="U" id="U" type="hidden" value="Remote" />
<input name="SenderEmail" id="SenderEmail" type="text" />
<input name="RecipientEmail" id="RecipientEmail" type="text" />
<input name="Files" id="Files" type="file" />
<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Sample file upload script return:

By default the upload script will return two values, a short link and a standard link, both will link to the file download page. Below is an example of what is returned after a file is successfully uploaded:

http://twelio.com/oodwm3<||<>||>https://www.sizablesend.com/file/wiyjrp/nevis.ttf<||<>||>

You’ll notice that the links are separated by the characters “<||<>||>” – this is done to differentiate between the two returned values. They are included solely to help differentiate between multiple returned values. You’ll also notice that the download links are returned in a certain order. They will always be returned in the following format: Short download link<||<>||>Regular download link<||<>||>Additional values, such as Twitter and Facebook sharing links, an example of this is below:

http://twelio.com/kxyuig<||<>||>https://www.sizablesend.com/file/p34nrd/nevis.ttf<||<>||><tr><td><div id="posttotwitter">Post to Twitter:</div></td><td><a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'File Syndicated', 'Twitter Syndication Click']);" target="_blank" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&winname=addthis&pub=streamlinedfusion&lng=en-US&s=twitter&url=https://www.sizablesend.com/file/p34nrd/nevis.ttf&title=SizableSend.com Free File Download - Filename: nevis.ttf (0.01 MB)">Click here</a></td></tr><tr><td><div id="posttofacebook">Post to Facebook:</div></td><td><a onclick='_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'File Syndicated', 'Facebook Syndication Click']);" target="_blank" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&winname=addthis&pub=streamlinedfusion&lng=en-US&s=facebook&url=https://www.sizablesend.com/file/p34nrd/nevis.ttf&title=SizableSend.com Free File Download - Filename: nevis.ttf (0.01 MB)">Click here</a></td></tr><tr><td><div id="posttostumbleupon">Post to Stumble Upon:</div></td><td><a onclick='_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'File Syndicated', 'Stumble Upon Syndication Click']);" target="_blank" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&winname=addthis&pub=streamlinedfusion&lng=en-US&s=stumbleupon&url=https://www.sizablesend.com/file/p34nrd/nevis.ttf&title=SizableSend.com Free File Download - Filename: nevis.ttf (0.01 MB)">Click here</a></td></tr>

You’ll notice that the social sharing links are formatted in HTML table tags, this is done only to help with presentation, you can ignore these HTML tags.

To use our custom file uploader on your website simply copy and paste the following code into your webpage source code:

<iframe src="http://embed.sizablesend.com/iframe/v1/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:700px; height:500px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

This code will embed our unformatted file upload module. What do we mean by “Unformatted”? Basically the file uploader is bare bones with no fancy CSS stylings.

If you want to customize your file uploader with a custom CSS style sheet you will want to change the code to look something like this:

<iframe src="http://embed.sizablesend.com/iframe/v1/?CustomCSS=http://www.MyDomain.com/CustomUploaderStyle.css" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:700px; height:500px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

With the CustomCSS query string parameter you can specify any stylesheet you want; do note however that this custom stylesheet will override ALL other styles of the file uploader. This allows you to fully customize the look and feel of the embedded file uploader.

You can also specify the Sender Email Address and/or the Recipient Email Address – thus not allowing the end user to choose. If the querystring parameters SenderEmail and/or RecipientEmail are specified, their corresponding input boxes will NOT appear, example:

<iframe src="http://embed.sizablesend.com/iframe/v1/?CustomCSS=http://www.MyDomain.com/CustomUploaderStyle.css&RecipientEmail=customer.relations@sfusion.com&SenderEmail=customer.relations@sfusion.com" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:700px; height:500px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

Below is a summary of the query string parameters you can customize: