file upload question

timus

When uploading a file using FTP, does it need to be uploaded using a form or can i specify a filename and location in the script e.g. "c:\docs\test.txt"

Many thanks
Tim

Norman_Graham

Hi Tim

You might want to have a look at this section in the manual as regards the standard file location when using ftp functions. To the best of my knowledge, just inserting the full path won't necessarily work.

HTH

Norm

timus

Thanks for your response, i should explain a little more.

I'm uploading a file from a remote machine to an ftp server. when i run the script on the remote machine (using an apache webserver) it will find the file in C:\thefile.txt and upload it to the ftp server. when i run the script on the isp web server, it will connect and let me navigate using ftp but it won't let me upload.

the message i get says there is an error opening c:\thefile.txt so i'm guessing the file location is relative to the web server.

so how do i get the location of the life up to the web server?

Many thanks
Tim

Norman_Graham

Hi Tim

Let me get this straight - you want to send a file from a webserver to a remote machine?

My first question would be, can you do this at all, i.e. invade the remote machine's file tree and upload stuff to it? I suspect not, using PHP. What you would need is for the client to be running an ftp server to which the files could be uploaded.

Or do you mean something completely different? Sorry to be such a dullard, but I don't quite understand what is going where and under which conditions. You cannot silently upload files to a remote machine unless that machine is running an ftp server to which you have access.

I'm sure this doesn't answer your question. Could you explain it to me nice and slowly?

Norm

timus

Thanks for the reply Norman, sorry i'm not making myself very clear.

imagine a user tyring to upload an image to an ftp server, normally they would use an ftp client which would send the file.

all i wanted to do was use php and ftp to same the user having a ftp client installed. it gets the file from the users system and uploads it to the web server.

the more i think about it, the more i doubt it can be done this way but all i wanted to do to upload the file was to supply the file location (on the users computer)

Thanks for your help
Tim

Norman_Graham

Hi Tim

OK - this is what I thought you meant. If my meagre understanding of PHP serves me well, this cannot be done. PHP will not allow you to invade a remote computer's file system and either copy to or download from that system without user interaction. To the best of my knowledge this applies both to Win and Linux.

However, some of the smarter people on this forum may prove me wrong.

As far as I understand it, you CAN do this with Perl (don't ask me for code).

Sorry not to have a solution

Norm