Ftp

lives4him06

I have a set up on my site that people can add and edit thier own 'profiles' (kind of similar to this site's set up but less complex), i want to allow people to upload pictures of them selves (if i could limit the pictures to jpg's and gif's that would be great), the pictures would then appear at the bottom of the user's profile. The pictures would be uploaded from the user's computer onto mine.
I know how to set up all the database interaction, i just need to know how to upload the pictures.

piersk

Start by having a look here

lives4him06

do i need an ftp server?

mrhappiness

have a look at http://www.php.net/move-uploaded-file and be happy 🙂

lives4him06

is it 'FTP' i am looking for? or simply uploading?

lives4him06

In other words, am i actually using 'ftp' or am i using some other means to upload the images?

mrhappiness

you read my post above?

lives4him06

gotcha.

so that i actually learn, what happens on the server side, for example when on this site when i click: Attach file: browse, then i choose a picture and click ok?

mrhappiness

the file get's uploaded to a directory for temporary files
after that the script specified in the form's action attribute get's xecuted

this script has to move the uploaded file via move_uploaded_file out of the temporary directory to a location of your choice

if you don't move the the file it will be deleted as soon as your script has finished

lives4him06

aight i got some basic code banged out. But how do i cause the actual uploading to take place:

page 1:

<?php echo "<form action='imageupload2.php' method='post'>\n\n
         <table border=0>\n
        <tr><td valign=top align=right>Upload Picture:</td><TD><input type='file' name='attachment'></td><tr>\n
        <tr><td></td><td><input type='submit' value='Submit'></td><tr>
        </table>\n
        </form>";
?>

and page 2 (imageupload2.php)

<?php
     $image = current ($HTTP_POST_VARS);
     echo $image;
?>

do i simple use the move-uploaded-file function? and if so where?

or is there some upload function?