upload a picture to a FOLDER NOT A DATABASE

Billett

i need to upload a picture to a specific folder not to my database could someone show me how to do this please

Cheers

Xenos2086

You will probably have to use an HTML form.

set up the form and put this field in it:

then in the action scripr should look like this:

<?php
echo "Return Code: ".$_FILES['blah']['error']."<br>";
echo "Uploading ".$_FILES['blah']['name']."(".$_FILES['blah']['type'].",".ceil($_FILES['blah']['size'] / 1024)."Kb).<br>";
if file_exists("dirtoinsertinto/".$_FILES['blah']['name'])
    {
        echo "dirtoinsertinto/".$_FILES['blah']['name']." already exists.";
        echo "Please rename the file and try again.";
		die();
    }
    else
    {
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES['blah']['tmp_name'],"dirtoinsertinto/".$_FILES['blah']['name']);
        echo "File has been stored in the whatever directory.";
    }

Billett

i have it looking like this but it dont seem to work

<?PHP
$page_title = 'Register!';
include ('./header.inc');

echo "Return Code: ".$FILES['pic']['error']."<br>";
echo "Uploading ".$FILES['pic']['name1']."(".$FILES['pic']['type'].",".ceil($FILES['pic']['size'] / 1024)."Kb).<br>";
if file_exists ("\pics".$FILES['pic']['name1'])
{
echo "\pics".$FILES['blah']['name1']." already exists.";
echo "Please rename the file and try again.";
die();
}
else
{
move_uploaded_file($FILES['pic']['tmp_name'],"\pics".$FILES['pic']['name1']);
echo "File has been stored in the whatever directory.";
}

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

if (strlen($_POST['name']) > 0) {
	$name_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$name_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your name***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['email']) > 0) {
	$email_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$email_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your email address***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['username']) > 0) {
	$username_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$username_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your username***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['password1']) >0) {
if ($_POST['password1'] == $_POST['password2']) {
	$password_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$password_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Passwords dont match***</font></p>';
}

} else {

$password_check = FALSE;
echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your password***</font></p>';
}

if ($name_check && $email_check && $username_check && $password_check) {

require_once ('./connect1.php');

$query = "insert into tester (name, email, username, password) values ('$POST[name]', '$POST[email]',
'$POST[username]', PASSWORD('$POST[password1]'))";
$result = mysql_query($query);

echo '<p>You are now registered</p>';

include ('./footer.inc');
exit();

} else {
echo '<p> Please go <a href="http://billett.hopto.org/PHP/register.php">back</a> and try again</p>';
}
} else {

<form action="<?PHP echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

<fieldset>
<legend><font color="red">Enter Your Information Below </font></legend>

<p><b>Email Address:</b> <INPUT type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="60"></p>

<p><b>Username:</b> <INPUT type="text" name="username" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Password:</b> <INPUT type="password" name="password1" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Confirm Password:</b> <INPUT type="password" name="password2" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Upload a Picture:</b><INPUT type="file" name="pic"></P>
</fieldset>

</form>

<?php

}
include ('./footer.inc');
?>

Xenos2086

This:

echo "Return Code: ".$_FILES['pic']['error']."<br>"; 
echo "Uploading ".$_FILES['pic']['name1']."(".$_FILES['pic']['type'].",".ceil($_FILES['pic']['size'] / 1024)."Kb).<br>"; 
if file_exists ("\pics".$_FILES['pic']['name1']) 
{ 
echo "\pics".$_FILES['blah']['name1']." already exists."; 
echo "Please rename the file and try again."; 
die(); 
} 
else 
{ 
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['pic']['tmp_name'],"\pics".$_FILES['pic']['name1']); 
echo "File has been stored in the whatever directory."; 
}

should look like this:

echo "Return Code: ".$_FILES['pic']['error']."<br>"; 
echo "Uploading ".$_FILES['pic']['name']."(".$_FILES['pic']['type'].",".ceil($_FILES['pic']['size'] / 1024)."Kb).<br>"; 
if file_exists ("pics/".$_FILES['pic']['name1']) 
{ 
echo "pics/".$_FILES['pic']['name1']." already exists."; 
echo "Please rename the file and try again."; 
die(); 
} 
else 
{ 
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['pic']['tmp_name'],"pics/".$_FILES['pic']['name']); 
echo "File has been stored in the pics directory."; 
}

Not to sure why you changed "name" to "name1" and you had \pics[file], which just won't work. I'm assuming you want it in the pics directory so it should be pics/[file]. I'm also assuming the rest of the script is right, I ddin't look at all of it.

Billett

Ok it looks like this and i get the error message of

PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\PHP\register.php on line 7

<?PHP
$page_title = 'Register!';
include ('./header.inc');

echo "Return Code: ".$FILES['pic']['error']."<br>";

echo "Uploading ".$FILES['pic']['name']."(".$FILES['pic']['type'].",".ceil($FILES['pic']['size'] / 1024)."Kb).<br>";

if file_exists ("pics/".$FILES['pic']['name1'])

{

echo "pics/".$FILES['pic']['name1']." already exists.";

echo "Please rename the file and try again.";

die();

}

else

{

move_uploaded_file($FILES['pic']['tmp_name'],"pics/".$FILES['pic']['name']);

echo "File has been stored in the pics directory.";

}

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {

if (strlen($_POST['name']) > 0) {
	$name_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$name_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your name***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['email']) > 0) {
	$email_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$email_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your email address***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['username']) > 0) {
	$username_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$username_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your username***</font></p>';
}

if (strlen($_POST['password1']) >0) {
if ($_POST['password1'] == $_POST['password2']) {
	$password_check = TRUE;
} else {
	$password_check = FALSE;
	echo '<p><font color="red">***Passwords dont match***</font></p>';
}

} else {

$password_check = FALSE;
echo '<p><font color="red">***Please enter your password***</font></p>';
}

if ($name_check && $email_check && $username_check && $password_check) {

require_once ('./connect1.php');

$query = "insert into tester (name, email, username, password) values ('$POST[name]', '$POST[email]',
'$POST[username]', PASSWORD('$POST[password1]'))";
$result = mysql_query($query);

echo '<p>You are now registered</p>';

include ('./footer.inc');
exit();

} else {
echo '<p> Please go <a href="http://billett.hopto.org/PHP/register.php">back</a> and try again</p>';
}
} else {

<form action="<?PHP echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

<fieldset>
<legend><font color="red">Enter Your Information Below </font></legend>

<p><b>Email Address:</b> <INPUT type="text" name="email" size="40" maxlength="60"></p>

<p><b>Username:</b> <INPUT type="text" name="username" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Password:</b> <INPUT type="password" name="password1" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Confirm Password:</b> <INPUT type="password" name="password2" size="20" maxlength="40"></p>

<p><b>Upload a Picture:</b><INPUT type="file" name="pic"></P>
</fieldset>

</form>

<?php

}
include ('./footer.inc');
?>

Yamakazi

This:

if file_exists ("pics/".$_FILES['pic']['name1'])

Should be:

if(file_exists ("pics/".$_FILES['pic']['name1']))

Billett

ok now it came up on my web page showing

Return Code:
Uploading (,0Kb).
File has been stored in the pics directory.

even tho i haveent added any picture so i changed the directry from pics/ to /pics and it now shows the form again but still has the above text above the form, i then filled oput the form but it doesn;t add the picture still

rgermain

I am not sure if this is your problem, but I know it is a must have when trying to upload a file.

In your form tag you should have:

enctype="multipart/form-data"

Billett

ok thats added it seems to give the details of the file now in the output when submit it clicked but still dont seem to send the file to the folder

The_Chancer

Try it out on a localhost, then search for the file - it maybe that it has put it in a wrong directory in your move_uploaded_file() command

If it says that it has gone - it will most probably be there somewhere....