upload images

spectacell

Hello!

I want to upload images to a folder. I've read about in the PHP docs but I can't get it to work. I'm probably missunderstanding something.

Could anyone help me with a small code example?

Best regards
Emil Hansson aka spectacell
www.sinesub.com

mol

Why dont you post an example of your code?

spectacell

------default.php-----------
<form action="upload.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1000000">
Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Send File">
</form>

------upload.php-----------
<?php
// In PHP earlier then 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead of $FILES.
if (is_uploaded_file($FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'])) {
copy($FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder");
} else {
echo "Possible file upload attack. Filename: " . $FILES['userfile']['name'];
}
/ ...or... /
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder");
?>

this is probably totally wrong 🙂 but help is really appriciated...

jburfield

You are missing an element in your <form> tag...you need this:

Also, I would probably change this:

copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder");

To something like:

$newfilename = "filenamehere.txt"
copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder/$newfilename");

-- Jason

spectacell

thanks for the help Jason but I'm almost a complete newbie...could you try to explain why it should be:

$newfilename = "filenamehere.txt"
copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder/$newfilename");

what is the txt file? and what should I replace $filenamehere and $newfilename with?

thanks!

jburfield

That was just an example.

When I upload files, generally image files, I assign a name to the file, usually a random name of sorts, as the file goes into a directory with other files that have been uploaded, in order to give it a different name, I assign something to it. Hence the idea of the $filename attribute.

The .txt was just an example if you were using a text file for an upload, but it can be anything.

-- Jason

spectacell

oh umm

if I want the file to have the exact same name as original is that imposible?

how do I use a txt file for uploading?

damn I must seem really stupid but I'm trying my best to understand...

Thanks a lot for the help!

jburfield

Sure.

$filename = $_FILES["userfile']['name'];

copy($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], "/bilder/$filename");

That will give you the original file name when you copy it over.

Check out the manual section on uploading files, it's pretty good.

-- Jason

spectacell

Thanx for all the help!

I finally made it work using move instead of copy 🙂