text file open and read

[prowley]

I have searched the forums on this one and have not found an answer.

Does anyone know how I can open a text file on the hard disk of a users machine to allow the data to be uploaded to a database?

I have used the code with success on my installation of mysql, php4 and IIS but when I pup the php code on the web and try and run it I get the following error:

Warning: fopen("C:\data.txt","r") - No such file or directory in /files/home1/gs/txtconvertmy.php on line 62

Obviously there is some issue with gaining access to the users hd from the web but I can't figure it out!

Sample code which works on my local machine :-

 $fname = urldecode($filename);

 //Open text file
 $fd = fopen ($fname, "r"); 

 //If error on opening txt file
 if (!$fd) {
echo('System encountered problems finding ' . 
                         strtoupper($fname) . ' - please check and try
                                  again!');
exit;
 }

 //Read data from text file
 $textfilearray = fread ($fd, filesize($fname));

 //Close text file
 fclose ($fd);

I have been stuck on this one for a while now!

Please help

[IceD]

No way! You can only make upload form, and upload the file to the server.

[prowley]

Does anyone have an example of the post form so I can work my way throught it to code what I need?

[acidbox]

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

[jacobswell]

hi

if you are working on your own server system. it could be possible...

(I tested with Apache server with win2kpro)

for example like this : http://127.0.0.1/localopentest.php

and the code is :

<?php
$fp = fopen("c:\Temp\test.txt", 'r');
$text = fread($fp, filesize("c:\Temp\test.txt"));
print $text;
?>