Uploading a file

[Kris5_0]

I want to upload a file when a user visits a page. This file will always be at the same location (on a local server) and will always be uploaded to the same location (on a remote server). I have some code to upload a file, but the only examples I've found involve the file being submitted with the POST function from a form (which I cannot due since my host disabled my ability to use the POST method and will not enable it).

This is what I have for code so far...

<?php

$uploaddir = '/var/www/uploads/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
   echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
} else {
   echo "Possible file upload attack!\n";
}

echo 'More debug info:<BR>';
print_r($_FILES);

?> 

How do I tell it what file I am submitting from my local server? I think it would work if I could just get that bit added in.

[kingbear]

The $_FILES array is only populated via an HTML POST ... if it's always the same file, why not store it on the remote server and use a fopen() to open the file instead of uploading it ?

[Kris5_0]

Originally posted by kingbear
The $_FILES array is only populated via an HTML POST ... if it's always the same file, why not store it on the remote server and use a fopen() to open the file instead of uploading it ?

It's always the same file name, but the file will be updated with new data. With the host we have now, we do not have any database access (which would be the ideal way to do this) and they do not allow us to use the POST method... I can't use GET as I would have to pass passwords and also fields that could be very, very large...

So the best idea I have come up with is allowing the users to modify this file on a local server, then click an update button that would upload the file to the remote server.