html upload

Anon

I have a form that allows a word document to be uploaded to a site and later downloaded.
The problem is something happens during the upload that makes word not recognize the file as a word document.

If I look at both the file that was uploaded and the original file It appears that the uploaded file has been changed. In the original file I see the header of the file several ^@ that appear as \0 in the uploaded file. There are other differances also.

I am assuming that this has something to with binary uploads. Any help on this would be very much appreciated.

thank you

Gary Dewrell

Anon

The code you used to store the file would help a lot here.

Post it, and we´ll go through that step by step.

Regards,
FAB

Anon

Sure thing.

Here is the html code from the webpage where the upload is done:

echo "<center>";
echo "<FORM METHOD=POST ENCTYPE='multipart/form-data' ACTION=fileup.phtml>";
echo "<strong>File to upload</strong><p><INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME='upload'> <p>";
echo "<p>Brief Description<br><input type='text' name='desc' size='40'></p>";
echo "<p>Estimated Value<br><input type='text' name='EstValue' size='10'></p>";
echo "<p>Expiration Date (yyyy-mm-dd)<br><input type='text' name='expire' size='10'></p>";
echo "<p>Email address: <br> <input type='text' name='BuyerName' size='40'></p>";
echo "<p>Your Password<br> <input type='text' name='Password' size='20'></p>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='CategoryName' value='$CategoryName'>";
echo "<input type='hidden' name='SubCategoryName' value='$SubCategoryName'>";
echo "<INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE='Upload File'>";
echo "</center>";

And here is the code that handles the upload (the phtml that is in the action tag from the html)

$fo=fopen($upload,"rb");
$fr=fread($fo,10000000);
$doc=addslashes($fr);
$myfilename=uniqid("").".doc";
$myfile=fopen ("/httpd/virtwebs/www.connectrfp.com/public_html/files/$myfilename","w+b");
$writefile=fwrite ($myfile,$doc);
$closemyfile=fclose ($myfile);

Anon

OK Gary,

I´ll get home in a couple of hours. And I have some code there which already works kinda like this. I´ll get back to you when I´m there, because I do not remember exactly the code which will fix this prob. So I better check it first, instead of giving you nonsense advices here.. 😉
Maybe someone else might get in helpin out in the moment.

Hope you can wait that long....

FAB

Anon

Oy. While I can't see anything in the code that would
be changing the contents of the file, why do you need
to open the file in the first place? Just rename() or link()
it to the desired location.

Anon

Hi Gary,

finally at home 🙂
I think Kirk got a major point.
You open the file, and quote the content of the file. The result is rather a text file, not a Word document. Since you want the file "as is" better do not mess around.. 😉

So let me see what code would I use?

maybe something like this:

$dest = "/someway_to_go/$myfilename";
if(!copy($upload,$dest)) {print "Error while uploading!";}
else {print "File successfully uploaded!";};

This small code simply copies the file from the servers tmp directory (where every form input file goes first!) to your destination in the servers filesystem.

Hope that helped...

FAB