File Upload

[Anon]

How to upload files to the server? What is the PHP equivalent of Response.BinaryRead?

[Anon]

Hi, i'll try to answer your question by example:
Since you know ASP (am i right ?), i'm sure you'll agree that PHP is much simpler. Say, i have HTML form like this :
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="uploader.php" ENCTYPE="MULTIPART/FORM_DATA">
<INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="thefile">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send file !">
</FORM>

then, on file uploader.php I can access uploaded file by referencing on variable $thefile (it is the same as HTML form).
Some of nice things on PHP is you can retrieve various info from uploaded file like followings :
$thefile_name --> returns uploaded file name
$thefile_size --> returns uploaded file size
$thefile_type --> returns uploaded file type, this is much more like MIME-type

To read uploaded file in binary mode, you can consult on PHP manual.

Hope it helps.

[Anon]

Thanks for your response. Where will the uploaded file be saved? Will this work too for remote computers?

[Anon]

Uploaded files
will be saved in directory specified in php.ini (usually in \tmp), and cannot be on remote computer (in intranet, maybe ?)
Just remember file permission when dealing with UNIX machine.

Oh yes, I'm glad to be helpful.

[Anon]

If I understood your example correctly, the following lines will physically copy the file specified in the file object somewhere in the server.

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="uploader.php" ENCTYPE="MULTIPART/FORM_DATA">
<INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="thefile">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send file !">
</FORM>

Is this correct? And that the uploader.php simply retrieves some info about the upload file?

[Anon]

Take a look at this:
http://www.php.net/manual/features.file-upload.php

zeny ortiz wrote:

If I understood your example correctly, the following lines will physically copy the file specified in the file object somewhere in the server.

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="uploader.php" ENCTYPE="MULTIPART/FORM_DATA">
<INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="thefile">
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send file !">
</FORM>

Is this correct? And that the uploader.php simply retrieves some info about the upload file?

[Anon]

Thanks for your suggestion. I visited the site and I read a note from one of the contributors that I think (hopefully) would solve this issue. I've been trying to upload images to the server but just can't get the above examples to work. In the note, the contributor mentioned that the default_mimetype in the php.ini must be set to blank rather than its default 'text/html'. So, I'll be trying this tip and hopefully would get this file uploading to work. =)