Storing filename of images

sdm

Hi,

I have the need to allow uploads of images to users accounts. This is basically what i'm trying to do:

Show an upload box so the user can choose an image, the image will then be upload to the server. The filename of the image should be written into a database table so when an item is viewed, any image they have chosen to upload is displayed as well.

Any pointers of how to store the filename in the database without asking the user to enter it would be appreciated, or if anyone knows of a tutorial for such a thing.

Thanks for your time,

SDM

paulnaj

When you use the HTML-FORM 'file-upload box' and send it to a php-handler, PHP provides a variable ($FILES) to store all the data that comes with, including the original file name.
Note that $FILES contains an array of file-data. Each item of $_FILES is in itself an array.

See http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/features.file-upload.php for more details.

Here's a sample HTML form and corresponding handler to get you on the road ...

// Form page - formupload.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Testing PHP4 - Forms - form upload</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Testing PHP4 - Forms - form upload</h3>
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0">
<form name="upload_form" action="formupload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
	<tr><td><input type="file"  name="userfile" size="30"></td></tr>
	<tr><td><input type="submit" value="Upload new image"></td></tr>
</form>
</table>
</body>
</html>

//Form handler - formupload.php
print_r($_FILES);

Hope that helps.

Shrike

You need to be careful when allowing people to upload directly to your server.

Your upload handler should check filesize, file extension...if you wanna be really careful look at the header in some way.

PHP's $_FILES array gives you some useful info, and there are some inbuilt PHP functions to help you along:

e.g. http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php