uploading a file

[egoodman]

I was hoping someone could give some pointers on uploading a file. I am familiar with the various handicaps presented by the php.ini file interms of file size, timeouts etc... it's the actual program flow that has me stumped. Here's what I have thus far: (I am developing on a win2k platform running apache 1.3.20, but my production platform is Redhat, apache 1.3.19, just to make things even more happy)

if (isset($userfile)){

if (is_uploaded_file($userfile)) {
copy($userfile, "$userfile");
} else {
echo "No file was sent, however all data was submitted to the database.";
}
set_time_limit(180000);
move_uploaded_file($userfile, "//dir//$userfile");

I am using a simple form as follows:

<form action="sameFile.php" method="post">
Choose a file to upload: <INPUT NAME="userfile" TYPE="file"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

Any help is appreciated.

[matto]

1. you forgot ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" in your form tag!!!! without it won't work.

try this ... if it still doesn't work, have a look at this:

2. here's my uploading code (my submit button's name is "ok", and I've set form action=<?=$PHP_SELF ?>), located on the top of the script:

[german lesson 😉 for variable names:
teile = parts
endung = extension]

if(isset($ok))
{
// is there a picture?
if(is_uploaded_file($userfile))
{
$teile = explode("/", $userfile_type);
$endung = $teile[count($teile)-1];

            if(substr($endung, strlen($endung)-4) == "jpeg")
                    $endung = "jpg";

            if(strtolower($endung) == "jpg" || strtolower($endung) == "gif")
            {
                    move_uploaded_file($userfile, "../img/".$userfile_name);

                    $meldung =      "<b>Upload successful!</b><br><br>\n\n"
                                    ."<img src=../img/$userfile_name><br><br>\n\n"
                                    ."$userfile_name<br><br>\n\n";
            }
    }

}

see www.php.net -> documentation -> handling file uploads.

[egoodman]

ok, makes sense, but where do you define $userfile_type and $userfile_name?

[egoodman]

One more issue, my host has php 4.0.1pl2 installed so is_uploaded_file and move_uploaded_file aren't recognized... what can I use as a work around there?