[RESOLVED] ordinary upload or FTP upload

[designxperts]

I need to add an upload script to a website i'm developing but i'm confused should i use the FTP functions or the other functions that work with the $_FILE variable?? Whats the difference? Knowing that some of the files that might be uploaded could be large files greater than 10MB.

Thanks

[wilku]

search this forum for ftp upload. HTTP upload ($_FILES) isn't designed to transfer large files (no resume transfer for example). On the other hand ftp upload can't be easily achieved with standard browser-www server configuration (I mean there is no form control to do ftp uploading - you'd need some java applet to do this).

[designxperts]

Alright thanks a lot wilku.
I've bean trying out some upload codes and now i'm using this one, i'm trying to upload pdf files but it doesn't. It uploads everything else i tell it to???

<?php
$uploaddir = "uploads/";
$filename = trim($_FILES['upfile']['name']);
$filename = substr($filename, -20);
$filename = ereg_replace(" ", "", $filename);

if(ereg(".pdf", $filename))
{
	$uploadfile = $uploaddir . $filename;
	if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upfile']['tmp_name'],$uploadfile)) 
	{
		chmod($uploadfile, 0644);
		print("File upload was successful");
	}//end if 
	else {
		print("File upload failed");
	}//end else
}//end if 
else {
	print("Only .pdf files are allowed, upload failed");
}//end else
?>

[wilku]

Dot in regular expression has a special meaning - any single character. If you have to use regular expressions, use [man]preg_match[/man] as manual says it's faster.

//this means treat dot literally and find '.pdf' at the end of the string
if (preg_match('/\.pdf$/',$_FILES['upfile']['name'])) //go ahead
else //print error message

Or use built-in functions for checking file exetension:

// Check Entension
$extension = pathinfo($_FILES['upfile']['name']);
$extension = $extension['extension'];

if ($extension == "pdf") //go ahead
else //print error message

see if either of those work for you.

[designxperts]

I tried this :

<?php
$uploaddir = "uploads/";
$filename = $_FILES['upfile']['name'];

//this means treat dot literally and find '.pdf' at the end of the string
if (preg_match('/\.pdf$/',$filename)) //go ahead
{
	$uploadfile = $uploaddir . $filename;
	if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upfile']['tmp_name'],$uploadfile)) 
	{
		print("File upload was successful");
	}//end if 
	else {
		print("File upload failed");
	}//end else
}//end if
else //print error message 
print("Only .pdf files are allowed, upload failed");

?>

and i tried this

<?php
$uploaddir = "uploads/";
$filename = $_FILES['upfile']['name'];

// Check Entension
$extension = pathinfo($_FILES['upfile']['name']);
$extension = $extension['extension'];

if ($extension == "pdf") //go ahead
{
	$uploadfile = $uploaddir . $filename;
	if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upfile']['tmp_name'],$uploadfile)) 
	{
		print("File upload was successful");
	}//end if 
	else {
		print("File upload failed");
	}//end else
}//end if
else //print error message 
print("Only .pdf files are allowed, upload failed");
?>

But still i get the error message : File upload failed

[laserlight]

That can be simplified to:

<?php
$uploaddir = "uploads/";
$filename = $_FILES['upfile']['name'];

// Check Entension
if (pathinfo($filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION) == "pdf")
{
    $uploadfile = $uploaddir . $filename;
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
    {
        print("File upload was successful");
    }
    else
    {
        print("File upload failed");
    }
}
else //print error message
    print("Only .pdf files are allowed, upload failed");
?>

However, this change would not solve your problem. Just a check: in the form, do you have method="post" and enctype="multipart/form-data"?

[wilku]

Can you echo what's in the $_FILES['upfile']['name']?

[designxperts]

laserlight wrote:

Just a check: in the form, do you have method="post" and enctype="multipart/form-data"?

Yes i do this is my html form:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="50000">
Select a file: <input name="upfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Upload">
</form>

wilku wrote:

Can you echo what's in the $_FILES['upfile']['name']?

Yes i'm trying for example to upload 1.pdf it echos the same thing 1.pdf.

[wilku]

I think I know where the problem might be:

<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="50000">

Isn't it a bit too restrictive? Most pdf will have more then 50 000 bytes. You can check status of an upload in $_FILES['upfile']['error']. Status codes here.

[designxperts]

you were right the size was the problem it passed right by me :o ...

Thanks a lot for the help.