I figure let me post a followup to this incase it can help someone else.

 

the second call is nessessary, so i figured if I needed to use one I might as well make it usefull.

 

 

in the JS file where I call

 

function CuteWebUI_AjaxUploader_OnPostback() {

// grab some additional info

   var stock = document.getElementById("Stock");
   var stockv = stock.value;

   var picnum = document.getElementById("picnum");
   var picnumv = picnum.value;
 
   var uploader = document.getElementById("myuploader");
   var guidlist = uploader.value;

// since i dont know how many photos the user will select or how long the guidlist will be , append known values to the end
   
   var guidlist2 = guidlist + "/" + didv + "/" + stockv + "/" + picnumv + "/" + vinnumv;

 

* now when this posts to the  ajax-multifiles-handler.php, and we exploded the post array

 

$guidarray=explode("/",$_POST["guidlist2"]);

 

i can count backwards to get my added vars

   $numofarray = count($guidarray)-2;

      $pnum = $guidarray[$numofarray]; // this is the picture number im looking for

 

since i know how many vars i added i know how many to take off to get to the original guidarray sent

 

foreach($guidarray as $fileguid)
{
 if($count<$numofarray3){ // is part of FileGuide

 $mvcfile=$uploader->GetUploadedFile($fileguid);
 
 if(!$mvcfile)
  continue;
.... // process file here

 

since i am moving the file and renaming it

I added a extra member  my new filename  to the JSON array being echoed

 

the returning xh.responseText

var list = eval(xh.responseText); //get JSON objects
  list.sort(SortByFileName); // create a function to sort on the original filename uploaded

 

then in the loop

 for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++)
   {
   photostr.push(list[i].FileNewName);  // create an array with only the NEWName
      }
  
   photostr = photostr.toString().replace (/\,/g, '|');    // replace commas with pipes

 

now i have a string of new filenames in the proper sorted order  based on the original name,

the original files are on the server with the new name.

 

now i need to get them into the db, with the new name

here is where i make the second call with a jquery to  a php page that creates a thumbnail of the image & inserts it values into the db

 

and thats pretty much it. 

 

if you would like to see it working

 

goto  www.dealz2wheelz.com  and login to the members area with   demotest / demotest

 

click on inventory and add a new vehicle,  you ll see the photo tab,  ( No porn !! )