theoretical session question

[melody]

Is it possible to pass files around from page to page by storing them in session variables? i.e. assigning $_FILES['filename'] to a session variable?

How practical is it?

Purely theoretical but one which I've been pondering lately (because I don't want to start planning a project around it if it doesn't work!) 😃

All the best,
Melody

[drawmack]

well you would have to pull the file out of the temp upload area and to another point on the system so that a 'temporary' file doesn't get deleted while you still need it. However, after that a file name is just a string - shouldn't be a problem at all.

[melody]

How long do the files stay in the temp directory? basically i'm making an advertisement website. A user enters all the information and uploads an image. I then want them to be able to preview the advert (without the image). If they then click submit, I want it to be flushed into the database. however, I wanted to use the advert_id from the database to name the image file (i.e. input advert, last_insert_id = 123456, so the file is thumbnailed and saved to disk as 123456.jpg) It would therefore make it a lot easier if i could actually pass the file by the session and save it once i've put all the other info into the database. Hope that was clear... lol. Can I do this?

[drawmack]

you can only garentee that a temp file exists for the time the script is running. So you would have to copy from the upload location to your own temp area, then manage the file on your own for deletion and renaming etc.

[melody]

thanks for the help 🙂