File upload in Safe Mode (to database)

TheBeginner

Hi,

Ok, so I learned the hard way (code after code after code...) that a upload of a file in Safe Mode seems impossible if my ISP don't make any changes - which they won't.

However the uploading is to secure people to upload scripts the can run and harm the server.

What about uploading a picture to a database (MySQL) in Safe Mode??
A script cannot be run inside database (or?) so it could be possible to make an upload like this.

Have anyone tried to upload a picture directly in to the database. Please help me if you have done this!?

/Martin

paulnaj

It's not actually that good an idea to store images in a database ... normally the path/filename is stored in the DB. If you MUST, then sorry, can't help you.

But if not, you can use the HTML-FORM Element <input type="file" ...etc> tag for the client and PHP to save with the uploaded on the server somewhere and update the database.

stolzyboy

safe_mode is ON where i have file uploaders on, and they work
just fine, maybe you should post some code you are using so
someone here can check it out to see if there is an alternate way
to do it

TheBeginner

Hi,

My intension was to store only the pathway in the database, but it seems that every code I used for uploading the files failes due to the Safe Mode on the server.

/MArtin

stolzyboy

Like I said, post some of the code you have previously used and
we'll see if there is an alternative route for you to go, other than
storing the actual file in the db, yuck

TheBeginner

Here is the code:

html form:

<form name="annonserasteg3" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="annonskon3.php">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="51200">
<input type=file name="file" size=20>
<input type="image" src="annons/stegra.gif"> //Submit button

php:

if ($file == "" || $file == "none") {
print ("no upload");
} else {
$newfile = ("/bild/$file_name");
echo ("uploaded file: $file_name<br>");
copy($file, $newfile);
unlink($file);
}

error message:

Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 16658 is not allowed to access / owned by uid 0 in /customers/.............and more!

Sp I guess it doesn't work with Safe Mode! I feel really down - how do people upload files in Safe Mode?

stolzyboy

thanks that a better error to work with

When safe_mode is turned on, PHP doesn't like the web server "user" accessing directories it doesn't own, even if the permissions are set to 777

What you need to do is talk to the server administrator about changing the directory's owner and/or group you want to move the file to "apache" or "www" or "nobody" or "http" depending on which user Apache runs as

Keep in mind they don't have to turn safe_mode on to do this

they just need to let the scripts be run as an apache user or a higher level user

who is your host btw

TheBeginner

Hi,

Thanks for your help, but since the website of mine is on a host that probably don't do it, since I'm maybe one of thousands users on the webhotel, that's why I thought of maybe upload them into a database.

I know that you don't usually store pictures in a database, but I really want to have a working image uploader on my site and nothing else seems to work.

/Martin

stolzyboy

here is an image uploader and downloader i had lying around
in my code snippets folder

i haven't used it and/or really looked at it, but you can sure go
ahead and give it a try

TheBeginner

....time to go to bed today. it have been a long day at work. Once agaian thanks!

/MArtin