Uploading Files

intermediate

Could someone show me how exactly to make it so people can upload files to the site.... example: on a forum upload an image to post on the forum post, something like that!

also, how do you make the browse button to make uploading files for the user easier and faster?!

and finally once the file is uploaded how do you call the file later as a variable to show the file or so people can dl the file.

plz help and thanx in advance for any help i receive!

intermediate

plz help !!

ereptur

I will assume you know the html part of how to do this, since this is a php board and all.

Attached is an example of how to process the file that is uploaded.

The example is taken from my website where people can upload a background image and then other can vote on it. it uploads the image to a "./bkgimgs" directory and names it with time() so that no two file names are ever duplicated.

The file is commented, but it only contains the post function.

intermediate

i got this error when trying to upload a file:

Warning: Unable to create './images/1042246294.gif': Permission denied in /home/**/public_html//***.php on line 182

how do i fix this!

diego25

Most likely your webserver's username isn't allowed to write in your directories. So change the permissions in your directories so that everyone can write to it (i.e. chmod to 777)

Diego

intermediate

how do i do this!?!?

altexis

either by php using the chmod() function
or with any FTP client

PyroX

If the server cannot write to the directory, it probably cannot chmod it either. Its an ownership issue. That is only logical, that does not mean its not possible. He may be right.

You need to make the directory write-able.

Unix/Linux, From the command line:
You can do: chown -R nobody.nobody /path/to/dirnme
or
You can do a 777, but that is not really a good thing to do.

Windows host, your host should provide you with a tool for changing permissions.

WS_FTP also allows you to change file premissions ( server permitting )

RedDragon

another possibility would be to store the attachment in the database as a blob, but that would of course be not as fast as storing it in a directory of the server...