[RESOLVED] Uploading Files Via a Web Form...

[Jabbamonkey]

Having some problems uploading a file to my server, via a web form. This worked with my old Windows webhosting account. Now I am on a Unix platform. I believe I fixed everything that needed to be fixed ... such as the new path, and setting the folder permission to writeable ... but it still isnt working. Here is the code. A little sloppy, but as I said, it worked on my old server....

Form on Page 1:

<?php
	$i=1;
       // LOOP so all 4 files get uploaded
	do {
?>
<input type="file" name="file<? echo $i; ?>" size="30"> 
<?php
		$i++;
	} while ($i<5);
?>

Page 1 sends the form fields to Page 2, which contains:

if(isset($_POST['file1'])) { $file1 = $_POST['file1']; } 
if(isset($_POST['file2'])) { $file2 = $_POST['file2']; } 
if(isset($_POST['file3'])) { $file3 = $_POST['file3']; } 
if(isset($_POST['file4'])) { $file4 = $_POST['file4']; } 
// Gets $file variable from form....
// This may be were the error is occuring ... 
// ... as it's not just a variable being transfered, but a complete file ...


// Path on server ... "temp" directory is CHMOD 777 and writeable.
$serverpath = "/home/cust1/user123456789/html/temp/";
// I checked with my webhost, and the path is correct. 
// But are there leading slashes? And is a slash needed at the end?

$i=1;
   // LOOP so all 4 files get uploaded
do {

	if (${"file$i"}) // If file exists ...
	{
		$fileonserver = $serverpath."".${"file".$i."_name"};
		// IF FILE ERRORS...
		if (${"file$i"} == "none")
		{ $error = "File Error - No file uploaded for section ".$i; }			
		if (!$error)
		  {
			// BEGIN FILE UPLOAD
			copy(${"file$i"}, "$fileonserver"); 
			unlink(${"file$i"}); 
			${"sec".$i."file"} = ${"file".$i."_name"};
			// FILE UPLOADED
		  }
	}
	$i++;
} while ($i<5);

Please let me know if you can tell me what is wrong. I'm a newbie with PHP so please be patient and explain carefully ... I tend to get confused easily. :queasy:

[fire_cracker]

How isn't it working? Are you getting any error messages?

[Jabbamonkey]

No error messages ... but I tried echo'ing the fields to see what variables were being transfered ... and none of the FILE variables are being transfered from one page to the next. I have other variables in text fields that get transfered fine ... but the files dont appear when I echo them out.

if(isset($POST['file4'])) { $file4 = $POST['file4']; }
echo "<!-- FILE4: $file4 -->";

// This prints
// <!-- FILE4: -->

[Jabbamonkey]

Here's a snippet of the form....

<form method=post action="admin/page_confirm.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<?php
$i=1;
do {
      ?>
     <input type="text" name="sec<? echo $i ?>text" maxlength="200" size="30"><br>
      <input type="file" name="file<?php echo $i; ?>" size="30"> 
      <?php 
      $i++;
} while($i < 7);
?>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

... can someone tell me why this isnt working? The variable "sec1text" gets transfered to the next page fine ... but "file1" does not!.

[Houdini]

First check what you are getting

if(isset($_POST['file1'])) { $file1 = $_POST['file1']; }
if(isset($_POST['file2'])) { $file2 = $_POST['file2']; }
if(isset($_POST['file3'])) { $file3 = $_POST['file3']; }
if(isset($_POST['file4'])) { $file4 = $_POST['file4']; }
echo "File1 is: $file1<br />"; 
echo "File2 is: $file2<br />"; 
echo "File3 is: $file3<br />"; 
echo "File4 is: $file4<br />"; 

[Jabbamonkey]

Already tried that (see my second post in this thread).

if(isset($POST['file4'])) { $file4 = $POST['file4']; }
echo "<!-- FILE4: $file4 -->";

// This prints
// <!-- FILE4: -->

I also tried this using one of my forms that only had ONE file field. And that doesnt transfer the file info over either.

Jabbamonkey

[dr_bung]

have you tried looking in $_FILES ??

print "<pre>";
print_r($_FILES);
print "</pre>";

[Jabbamonkey]

That shows the file info....

<pre>Array
(
    [file] => Array
        (
            [name] => Avatar_BobaNew.jpg
            [type] => image/jpeg
            [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpRQDe0F
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 3418
        )

)
</pre>

I never saw $_FILES before ... How do I call it so I can make each piece of file info into variables. I tried ...

if(isset($_FILES['file']))	{ $file = $_FILES['file']; } 
echo "<!-- $file_name-->"; // comes up as <!-- -->

... but that didnt work.

Need the following...

$file // file info....
$file_name // file name
$file_size // file size
$fileonserver = $serverpath.$file_name; // path to put file on server

[halojoy]

See
Handling File Uploads
http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

[Houdini]

Already tried that (see my second post in this thread).

if(isset($POST['file4'])) { $file4 = $POST['file4']; }
echo "<!-- FILE4: $file4 -->";

// This prints
// <!-- FILE4: -->

This shows that even though the variable is set it is empty or contains nothing. Maybe if you also checked for empty

[Jabbamonkey]

Thanks Dr_bung and halojoy. Got it all working now!!!!

[bradgrafelman]

Don't forget to mark the thread resolved.