Three coding questions - PHP Newbie help

israfel

Hello, I was working on a project when I stumbled into a few road blocks. If anyone can help with any of these with code, helpful suggestions or even a link to a tutorial it would help immensely.

Does anyone have any suggestions or code for how to handle file uploading through a website on a Mac? I've noticed that vBulletin's file upload feature just doesn't show up for Macs so I thought it would be the different filesystem causing the problem.
How do I make php scan a directory for .gif or jpg (or any, or all) files and generate a list of their names? In the absence of a file upload scrips I want to at least make it easy to fill in the path to the image you're looking for.
Can anyone give me information of making secure POST requests? The server supports openssl but I don't know how to code for it and their site was down the last time I checked it for info. Any other good sources? I'm on a hosted server so installing something like cURL is not an option.

Anon

You don't really code to use SSL. You basically need to get that https address of the page you are posting to and then post to that address. Also, many hosts (including mine) are pretty nice about compiling in new features into php upon request.

Anon

PHP's file upload features work fine when accessed by a Mac client (I don't know about running from a Mac server)
<?
$handle = opendir ('.');
while (($filename = readdir ($handle)) !== false)
{
if (
$filename != '.' &&
$filename != '..' &&
stristr ($filename, '.jpg') &&
stristr ($filename, '.gif')
)
{
$file_array[] = $filename;
}
}
sort ($file_array);
foreach ($file_array as $value) {echo "$value<br>\n";}
?>
just point your PHP scripts to the secure section of your site (https://...)

daarius

to get names of files from a folder do this:

$oid = opendir('path/to/folder');

while (($folderContent = readdir($oid)) !== FALSE) {
if ($folderContent != "." && $folderContent != "..") {
if(is_file('path.to.folder'.$folderContent)) {
echo $folderContent.' is a file';
}
else if (is_dir('path.to.folder'.$folder)) {
echo $folderContent.' is a folder';
}
}

i hope you get the idea of how to get around this.
Daarius...

Anon

Thanks, printing the contents of the directory worked (I changed it to display links to all files it finds and only display filetypes taken as arguments into the function.

My remaining question is: How do I save file attachments to the server? I can now recieve them with those groovy new $_SERVER vars (and I should be able to put the filepath to save them to as a field on the same form) but how do I save them?

Help on this would be appreciated, as the rest has been.

Anon

Also (I can't edit now, not logged in), how do i designate a "Secure" section of a website?

When I tried setting https://domainname/file.php it times out and a window pops up stating that the browser doesn't support the encryption.