browsing for picture

Pehape

hii,
i have a varchar field in my table.. it's for the picture file name..
in my form, how to show browse button and let user to select their picture through directories.. and the location address goes to my field..

designxperts

This is how to show the browse button :

<label for="file"> Browse:&nbsp;</label>
<input id="file" type="file" name="file" size="30" >
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="picture">

After that you need a connection to your database and insert the post into the field.

Pehape

ohh thank q so much....

<input id="file" type="file" name="file" size="30" >
sorry, i don't know much bout file type...,
what's 'id' for?
size? is it the picture size or what?
name, is variabel that we will pass. right?

abc123

ID is just a way for you to reference it uniquely. For example if you wanted to apply some css to just that specific input tag.

Size is the width of the input tag.

Name is like giving it a variable. This is how you access the value after submitting the form.

Don't be scared to change things like size and name. It will be easy for you to see how the size tag works.

Also if you do a search on google for <input> tutorial you should get some tutorials that could help.

Pehape

thanks ABC123 for the xplanation,
i tried the code given by designxpert.. and it works., however in db
my picture field is filled with an address without slash..
exmple: d:\Mypicture\Image\Me.jpg --> become d:MypictureImageMe.jpg
how come? i can't load it of course... (i don't know how to load it yet 🙂 , is it different from load other field type (char,etc)?)

abc123

In the code is there a function being used called strip_slashes?

If so then that would explain what is happening. I'm at work so can't test it out just now I'm afraid.

Use the manual at php.net to find out what strip_slashes is doing.

Pehape

i know that function, and i 'm sure i'm not using it..
last time i tried to echo the variabel which brought the address and i got that
my variabel still containing a good address (with slashes), just it went to my DB, the slashes is all erased.
what's wrong? any php auto configuration setting done this?

Pehape

<label for="file"> Browse: </label>
<input id="file" type="file" name="file" size="30" >
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="picture">

how bout it's <form...>, in my script.. i use..
echo " <form method='POST' action='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."'>"

after submitted, i get no result with print_r($_FILES)...