Uploading Text Files into forms

Anon

Can comebody please show me how I can have a form on my site with a text box that contains the contents of a text file selected through a browse button or other such file selection system?

Thanks

killswytch

Below is a little sample from something I just got done writing...If you want more, I can supply it...in this code, I set a cookie when the user logs in and just use the value from that cookie to make the dir..

$dir = "./snippets/".$cookie_user."";
mkdir($dir, 0777);
If (!copy($uploaded_data, "".$dir."/download.php"))
{
$error = 1;
$ErrorString .= "Error - Could not upload file!<br>";
}

The $uploaded_data is the name of the file field in the form...

toma42

This method presents some security problems. You should use move_uploaded_file() instead and have a specific, hard coded upload directory rather than the ./$somevar here.

killswytch

I have never heard of or seen move_uploaded_file() ?? Is that a function that you created? I haven't seen it in the manual... Any info would be great!!

toma42

Then RTFM.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php

killswytch

@!#$ you..It's people like you who ruin sites like this.