Upload files help

wittanthony

Can somebody here help me figure out how to upload files using php? I've tried going by what the php manual says but I'm still having problems. I also can't seem to figure out how to get just the filename of the file being uploaded. Is there a way to get it?

Thanks for any help in advance.

diego25

I've tried going by what the php manual says but I'm still having problems.

Can we see your code?

I also can't seem to figure out how to get just the filename of the file being uploaded. Is there a way to get it?

You can use the basename() function.

Diego

wittanthony

$imageuploc1 = "$imagefilename"."_name";
$imageuploc2 = $$imageuploc1;
$imageuploc3 = $$imagefilename;

copy ($imagefilename, $imageuploc);
copy ($zipfilename, $zipuploc);

ranazulfiqar

You can also use move_uploaded_file function

move_uploaded_file("$photo", $destDir."/".$photo_name)

In this function $photo is the picture field name(<input type=file name=photo>) and $photo_name is the actual name of photo.

I hope it will give you some idea

Zulfiqar Ali

Weedpacket

Of course, if you were to read the manual you'd find that PHP now uses an array called $_FILES[] (and has used an array called $HTTP_FILE_VARS[] for quite a while now) to store uploaded file details instead of a bunch of global variables. If you went by the manual you'd be using that.

wittanthony

I'm using $_files now in my code but I still am having some problems. I'm getting an error saying unable to open file. The error happens when php trys to execute the copy statements. Is there any way to fix that problem?

Weedpacket

Let's see the code you've got now and the error message you get when you use it.

planetsim

are you using move_uploaded_file

wittanthony

if ($action == "doupload") {
$num = 0;
while($num < 2) {
$num++;

$picture = "fileup$num"."_name";
$picture1 = $$picture;
$picture2 = "fileup$num";
$picture3 = $$picture2;

if($picture3 != "none") {
$filesizebtyes = filesize($picture3);

$ok = 1;
if($filesizebtyes < 10) {
$error .= "Error uploading (file size lower than 10 bytes) for file $num ";
$ok = 2;
}

if(file_exists("$ADMIN[directory]/$picture1") OR $ok == 2) {
$error .="File name already exists for file $num ";
} else {
move_uploaded_file ($picture3, "$filetype/$picture1");
$filessuccess .= $picture1;
$filessuccess .= " uploaded successfully. ";

$error .="File $num has been uploaded ";
}
}
}

if(!$error) {
$error .= "No files have been selected for upload";
}

}

Warning: stat failed for (errno=2 - No such file or directory) in uploadfile.php on line 31

planetsim

Firstly whats line 31

and secondly

$picture1 = $$picture;

should be $picture1= $picture;

$picture = "fileup$num"."_name";

is this suppose to be the file name

wittanthony

Line 31 is the move_uploaded_file line.

The code worked on the server I have running on my computer. It just doesn't work on the web server were the site is at.

Weedpacket

Well, the error message is saying that PHP can't find the file named in $picture3 (simple when you think about it.) So make sure it's the right value. In fact, make sure all the values are correct:

$picture = "fileup$num"."_name";
$picture1 = $$picture;
$picture2 = "fileup$num";
$picture3 = $$picture2;
echo $picture.' ';
echo $picture1.' ';
echo $picture2.' ';
echo $picture3.' ';

And what happened to $_FILES[]?

Code_guy

this is how I understand your code:
you have a form with two file upload fields named fileup1 and fileup2.

you assign the original file name to $picture1
and the temporary file name on the server to $picture3

you test:
if($picture3 != "none")
this should work, but you might want to try:
if (is_uploaded_file($picture3))

you test the file size..
you should use:
continue;
rather than $ok1, $ok2
continue sends you back to the top of the loop
the way you have it you will get both (size lower + already exists) error messages if the file is to small;

hmm... what is $filetype?
looks like it should be:
move_uploaded_file ($picture3, "$ADMIN[directory]/$picture1");

otherwise it looks ok

wittanthony

I've got my code to work now. Thanks for everybodys help. Theres just 1 more problem I have with upload a file. Whats the code to upload files bigger than 1MB? I just want to upload files upto 3MB.

Code_guy

the maximum filesize is limited by php3_upload_max_filesize in php.ini and also by your web server (php3_upload_max_filesize in apache)

btw, what was the problem?