moving files

kaen

If there are files that are taken from the users, what would you call the files if you were copy them to places? $_FILES?

For example, if I used PCLZIP to take zips from users, once I extract the files, how could I modify those files? How could I move them around? Uploading files uses is_uploaded_file, $file_array, move_uploaded_file, etc., but what about other processes?

jstarkey

Originally posted by kaen

For example, if I used PCLZIP to take zips from users, once I extract the files, how could I modify those files? How could I move them around? Uploading files uses is_uploaded_file, $file_array, move_uploaded_file, etc., but what about other processes?

Like? What is it exactly that you want to do? There are gazillionz of possible processes.

kaen

I just want to know what you would use to call it. Are files that are uploaded stored in files? Like, when you move text around, it's easy because you store it in a variable, but how would you move files so that when you're uploading something, you can use $_FILES as the source file or something?

<?php
include('pclzip.lib.php');
  $archive = new PclZip('1.zip');

  $list = $archive->extract(PCLZIP_OPT_PATH, "test/");

  if ($list == 0) { 
    die ("Unrecoverable error '".$archive->errorName(true)."'");
  }

?>

How would I move the extracted files somewhere else?

feldon23

When the user uploads a file through a properly setup File Upload form, you access the file through the $_FILES pointer and copy that file from the PHP default temporary location to somewhere local to your PHP script so you can then work on the file*. Then you could do your ZIP lib stuff. Remember that PHP, by default, dies after 30 seconds of execution so you won't be able to handle 10 MB uploads this way.

*see PHP user manual "handling file uploads".

kaen

Could I work on the file through PHP automatically? As in, once the zip file has been sent somewhere- is there anyway that I can grab it with PCLZIP without having to manually insert the name of the file into the PHP script?