actionURL question

cornercuttinjoe

i am writing a small order manager that lets the users fill out forms/orders, and in these orders, they can upload files. to do the fileuploading, i am using JUpload.

my question is this:

in my html, i have the <applet> stuff working, and the JUpload stuff works great (I changed it a little so I could dynamically direct what directory it uses), but it has to use the actionURL thing inside a <param> tag.

What it takes is this:
<applet code="JUpload.startup()"
......

....

so i need this in there because this is the script that JUpload looks at to actually do the uploading on the server.

is there any way i can do this inside this tag, or within the same page? i.e. just put some php code in between the value attribute, so i get something like this
<param name="actionURL" value="<?php ....some code....?>">

the reason i ask is that each of these orders have order numbers, and i need to keep track of which uploads go with which orders, so i can upload this info into a table that is basically order_has_uploads. because im using autoincremented integers as the order numbers, theres no way for me to get that information from another page, because i cant pass information to this jupload.php page. so it would be nice if i could keep all my code in this one order page, so that i can access variables and queries that i have already performed.

do you understand what im asking?

does the actionURL thing need a real url, or can you just put some php code in there telling what to do. i tried it a few days ago and didnt get it to work, but i may have messed up.

anyone have any luck/advice for this?

thanks ahead of time

thorpe

is there any way i can do this inside this tag, or within the same page? i.e. just put some php code in between the value attribute, so i get something like this
<param name="actionURL" value="<?php ....some code....?>">

of course you can... thats what php is good at. why not try it and see?

i have no idea what this JUpload thing is...but i have to ask. php can handle file uploads, why not just use that?

cornercuttinjoe

well, technically, php is handling the file uploads.

JUpload is a java applet that lets you upload more than one file at a time. its clean, and you dont have to click "Submit" or anything in order to upload files.

JUpload just calls a php script for every file that someone wants to upload, and then php uploads that file.

im new to php, and from looking around, i never saw a nice, clean way to do multiple file uploads. all of the code/examples i saw required you to enter in how many files you wanted to upload so that it could generate x number of upload boxes. and in this case, people might not know how many files they need to upload until they get to that upload box.

i saw someone say something about jupload on one of these threads, so i looked it up. the only reason i really use it is because it can handle the multiple file uploads so easily. if i only wanted to upload 1 file per page, then php would be easy. but jupload not only lets you upload multiple files, but you can Ctrl click a lot of files in one Browse folder so that you dont have to click "Browse" for every file you want to upload, and this was a request of the people that i am building this system for.

if you know of anything in php that will let you upload multiple files dynamically like this, kind of like a multi-select "Browse" button, i am all ears, but i havent seen anything.

ill try to put all of this php code inbetween the quotes of the value attribute here in about an hour, and ill post what i get.

thanks for the encouragement. any help is appreciated.

cornercuttinjoe

ive tried to put the php code in the value attribute of the param tag, and it didn't work.

basically, the logic of the code is somewhat like this (this is missing the code where i dynamically decide the save location)

<param name="actionURL" value="<?php

foreach($_FILES as $tagname=>$objekt)
{
$tempName = $object['tmp_name'];
$realName = $object['name'];
$target = '/www/uploads/';

 echo "<br />Processing the file $fileName\n";
 echo "<br />Putting it in $target\n";

 flush();

 move_uploaded_file($tempName, $target);

 flush();

}

flush();

?>">

when i try this, it doesnt work. its like the param tag or actionURL tag needs an actual URL, and wont let you put any code there.

any suggestions?

im not quite sure what to do here, because i need to be able to relate each order to its corresponding upload(s).

thanks in advance.