php file upload

Anon

after uploading a file i come to a new page which gives me a message "successfully uploaded", when i press the back button and come to the file uploading page, the text box with the filename is empty, what should i do, if i want the filename that i uploaded to be shown in the text box(ie. to persist in the text box).

Anon

if you are using the 'file' type form input, i don't think there is anyway to do that. similar to the 'password' type.

you could have a 'go back' link on the site that would contain that data though, but all you would get is the filename i think, not the entire path, and that i probably what you need.

Anon

Thanks for your response.with a go back link also, i cannot get any ata in the file text box. the filetextbox is like this
<input type="file' name="file1" >
if i try to force something in the filetextbox like $file1="c:\example.txt", it does not populate the filetext .box, the filetext box is always empty.
Another question i wanted to ask is that, how could we retrive the original filepath in the client side, ie, $file1_name gives the filepath on server side, is there a similar way for the client side path retrieval.
Thanks

Anon

Can't be done. It could originally, but it opened up a vast security hole in the browser - a malicious site could specify any file they'd like in a file form field and when an unsuspecting user submitted the form, the browser would quite happily take the file off the user's system (if it's there) and upload it to the site.