Uploading files

[blitzwing]

I'm looking at this bit of code to use to be able to upload files to my website.

http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=1061&single=1

The one line I don't understand is the following....

$filename = $statfile_name;

I don't understand where $statfile_name is being got from. If anyone could enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.

[matt_4013]

This is using the old style of file uploads (PHP3 compatible), which requires register_globals to be turned ON. $statfile_name is one of the variables generated by php when a file is uploaded using a file input named 'statfile'. It refers to the original filename. The newer way, for servers with register_globals turned off, is to use the $_FILES superglobal. So, for the same thing, you would use:

$filename = $_FILES['statfile']['name'];

Refer to Handling File Uploads in the PHP manual, they do a great explanation of it 🙂