Upload a file via PHP

**filburt1** · Mar 13th, 2002, 11:28 AM

How might I go about such a task?

**chrisjk** · Mar 13th, 2002, 11:59 AM

the process is fairly simple, you need the HTML obviously:

Code:

<form enc-type="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="post"
    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1000">
    Upload: <input type="file" name="userfile">
    <input type="submit" value="Upload File">
</form>

when the file is uploaded, it will go into the temp directory on the server, all the php script has to do is move it to where you want it. Just use php's copy function to move it http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.copy.php , since if you don't move the temp file, it will get deleted when the script fnishes.

The value in $userfile is the location of the temp file
$userfile_name is the filename
$userfile_size is the size (bytes)
$userfile_type is the mime type

**filburt1** · Mar 13th, 2002, 10:25 PM

Nifty, I'll try it out tomorrow considering I don't want to screw up my host and I don't have PHP running because I just reformatted

**filburt1** · Mar 18th, 2002, 11:23 AM

Arrrrrrrg:

Uploading toptitle.gif (16578 bytes)...
Warning: Unable to create '/usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/talabac/var/tmp/phpIewkV3': No such file or directory in /usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/uploadfile.php on line 17
Failed to upload!

My code:

<html>
<head>
<title>MrsKramer.com > Upload File</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<?
if (isset($userfile))
{
echo '';
echo "Uploading $userfile_name ($userfile_size bytes)...";
if (!file_exists($studentname))
{
mkdir($studentname, 0777);
}
if (!copy($userfile, "/usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/$studentname$userfile"))
{
echo 'Failed to upload!';
}
else
{
echo 'Upload successful (<a href="uploadfile.php">Upload another file</a>)';
}
echo '</body>';
echo '</html>';
exit;
}
?>
<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="uploadfile.php" METHOD="POST">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">Name:
<? require('studentlistdropdown.php'); ?>
 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
File
to upload:
<ul>
<li>Only
allowed types are GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, CLASS, HTM, and HTML)</li>
<li>Maximum
file size is 10,000 bytes (about 10 KB)</li>
<li>Files
that are not directly referenced (i.e., for storage only) may be deleted
as space on the server is limited)</li>
<li>Accessing
http://www.mrskramer.com/lastname/ will open http://www.mrskramer.com/lastname/index.html.</li>
</ul>

<input type="File" name="userfile" size="30" maxlength="255">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#EEEEEE">
Warning!
Any existing file with the same name will be overwritten! 
Click the Upload button only once.

<input type="submit" value="Upload">

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Why? WHY!? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! BTW, I chmod'ed all directories to 777 and it's STILL doing this. http://www.mrskramer.com/students/uploadfile.php

scoutt · Mar 18th, 2002, 12:53 PM

if (!copy($userfile, "/usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/$studentname$userfile"))

should be

if (!copy($userfile, "/usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/$studentname/$userfile"))

**filburt1** · Mar 18th, 2002, 02:52 PM

When I do that, I get two /s in a row.

scoutt · Mar 18th, 2002, 03:01 PM

just noticed,
why are you using 2 $userfile? try this

if (!copy($userfile, "/usr/home/m/r/mrskramercom/public_html/students/$studentname/$userfile_name"))

**filburt1** · Mar 18th, 2002, 03:19 PM

Cheers, it works

**ubunreal69** · Mar 18th, 2002, 06:11 PM

*** is 'chmod' ???

scoutt · Mar 18th, 2002, 06:19 PM

that sets the permissions to a file so you can read or write or execute. for all users, owners, and groups

777 is full access for all everybody
755 is where you want it be most of the time.
444 is read only.

**ubunreal69** · Mar 18th, 2002, 10:25 PM

thanx scoutt. where would i change these settings ?? i know something like that is accessable through some FTP browser i have though

scoutt · Mar 18th, 2002, 11:13 PM

it all depends on what ftp program you use. I use ws_ftppro and if I right click on a file on the server it gives me the choice of chmod. then it opens another window where I can check and uncheck boxes to get the desired result.

**ubunreal69** · Mar 19th, 2002, 02:46 AM

lol, sorry scoutt, i am @ home now and thats the same app i use (ws_ftp_pro) i'll check it out. thanx m8

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