Newbie needs help with interactive page

[Anon]

Hello,

I'm new to PHP and have recently been asked to clean-up and streamline an interactive Art Mat page that someone else wrote.

http://www.matshop.com/mattyB.php3

I've cleaned-up the page, etc. and have everything working smoothly...the only problem is the file box command.

<input type=FILE name="PICTURE" value="http://islandart.com/micons/L-8300.jpg" size=50>

There are two problems:
1. the path for the default image under value (shown above) does not appear in the value box when the page loads.
2. the browse function works and puts the image path in the box but the image does not appear when the user clicks "Make Mat"

If anyone has some pointers/advice/answers on how to get the Browse function working properly I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks
Ryan
Webmaster MatShop.com

[sid666]

do you actually save (copy() f.ex.) the picture to the server? i dont think, you could just use the pointer to display the picture.

furthermore, to display the image you cannot refer to the picture path as $PICTURE but as $PICTURE_name - (like "uploads/" . "$PICTURE_name" for example, if the pic is stored in the folder "uploads")

try that - maybe it works.