Need Help with Image Uploader

reub77

I'm a novice at the Image Uploading in PHP. I'd like to figure out how to do it. Maybe someone could start me off and point me in the right direction.

How do i figure out where to upload the file? It uploads to a temp directory first, right? If so, how do I find out the path, and then how do I specify I'd like to move it somewhere specific to my domain?
How do i temporarily upload the image to the server for the user to preview and then delete or move to the live area?
Is there any easy way to see if my host will allow me to upload files?
I'd like to pull all the data from the file and store it (width, height, filename). How do i do that?
I've been looking over tons of different methods to do image uploading, i have yet to find one that works for me, maybe i'm just setting it up wrong. Does anybody have a real simple one i can customize to my needs?

Thanks

reub77

I still need help. If you know anything about uploading images and setting that whole process up PLEASE let me know what you can.

Thanks.

reub77

I've found some code that I'm trying out for a simple image upload. It doesn't seem to work maybe somebody can help me with it:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <input type="file" name="imagefile">
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

<?php
  if(isset( $Submit ))
  {
  //If the Submit button was pressed do: 

  if ($_FILES['imagefile']['type'] == "image/gif"){

  //Check if the image type from the selected file is gif. 
  //If the type is gif then we want to copy it like this:

  copy ($_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'], "uploads/".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'])
  or die ("Could not copy");


 echo "";
 echo "Name: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['name']."";
 echo "Size: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['size']."";
 echo "Type: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['type']."";
 echo "Copy Done....";
}
 else
 {
  echo "";
  echo "Could Not Copy, Wrong Filetype (".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'].")";
 }
}
        ?> 
  </form>

This code gave me this error:

Warning: copy(test/logo.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/inmotion/domains/inmotionimports.ca/public_html/test/imageLoader3.php on line 23
Could not copy

Line 23 is the copy line.

Thanks

Kudose

$path = "/home/inmotion/domains/inmotionimports.ca/public_html/";
copy ($path.$_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'], $path."uploads/".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'])
  or die ("Could not copy");

reub77

Didn't work. But I think we're close. Here's the error:

Warning: copy(/home/inmotion/domains/inmotionimports.ca/public_html//tmp/phpx48wcd): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/inmotion/domains/inmotionimports.ca/public_html/imageLoader.php on line 26
Could not copy

Any ideas??

leatherback

Hi,
$_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'] should contain the full pathname on the server already, as far as I know. So you should not need to set the path manually. (THis would mean you'd hgave to rewrite every script whenever you mover servers).

So I think maybe the path for the tmp files is set at a very low level on your server, and you may not be allowed to acces it.
You can check the temp file folder in a phpinfo() file (A file with:
<?
phpinfo();
?>)

This will give you an overview of all the PhP settings. Remove from your server after use.

You are looking for:
upload_tmp_dir

Weedpacket

leatherback wrote:
$_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'] should contain the full pathname on the server already, as far as I know.

Judging from the error message I'd say you're right:
/home/inmotion/domains/inmotionimports.ca/public_html//tmp/phpx48wcd

reub77

I did the phpself; command and found the info you said to look for. The info said:

upload_max_filesize = 2M
upload_tmp_dir = no value
user_dir = no value

What does that mean? Is that bad for me? Is there still a way to do this image upload script? Do I have to instead, upload them straight into the database? Is that smart? Couldn't that fill your database pretty quick?

Just a few questions I have I guess. I need to know what direction I need to point at getting this done.

Thanks in advance

reub77

Does this possibly mean that my web host doesn't allow people to send stuff to the temp folder?

I would imagine if that's true, I'll have to upload the images straight into the database. Is that advisable? Is there any drawbacks to doing this?