A photo upload question ?

MichaelHe

I have a site where people registre and uploads a profile photo.
It works fine with this script:

$uploadfile = $uploadfoto . $id.".jpg";
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile);

It uploads the photo with the name 2.jpg ex. if the id number is 2.

But I have a problem if people do not want a photo attached.
Then the <input name="upload" type="file"> is left empty, and when you see the profile afterwards it can't find the photo offcause.

I have a special photo for people without photo attached, but I can't get it to upload this photo if the input field is left empty.

So is it possible to upload/copy a photo onthe webserver with the name $id.jpg if the field is left empty. ?

suntra

Why don't you simply check if the user has a photo on the server (so using file_exists()), and if he/she doesn't have one, you write the filename of the default picture ?!

MichaelHe

Because people upload a picture on my server under the name $id.jpg

So it's not a link to a picture I need to check.
It is if the input upload field is empty (this I can check ofcause9 I need it to upload my default picture with the name $id.jpg instead of the photo that would have been uploaded if he/she had one.

suntra

Well use the function copy().

hennety

I think you're misreading Suntra's suggestion, it's easier to check if the image for a particular user exists, if it doesn't, simply display your default image...it'll also save you disk space for the users that don't include a photo with their profile.

MichaelHe

Yes I found that out :o)
I found out how to, and it works.. Sorry for forgetting to write that back in here.

Thanks a lot for your help.