Help please

bearbug

Trying to allow the user to browse to, and select a file, and then store the file path/name in a text field on the form for storage in the db.

Using HTML input="file" gives me the browse capability and displays the path/filename on the form for me - however I cant seem to get the path/filename displayed into a php variable .

Any help much appreciated

Many thanks

laserlight

You cannot get the client side path name that way, for security reasons.

bearbug

Thanks for that - so any ideas on how I can allow users to browse to a file and then store the path/filename in a text field in the DB

Regards

laserlight

Thanks for that - so any ideas on how I can allow users to browse to a file and then store the path/filename in a text field in the DB

Wouldn't it make more sense to upload the file, and then store the uploaded file path and name in the database?

bearbug

laserlight;10881772 wrote:
Wouldn't it make more sense to upload the file, and then store the uploaded file path and name in the database?

In this case I only need to know where the file is , so don't need the file itself.

Thanks

laserlight

Why do you need to know where the file is on the user's local computer?

bearbug

So that at a later date, people can reference where the file is quickly without having to hunt around for it

laserlight

So that at a later date, people can reference where the file is quickly without having to hunt around for it

Are you sure PHP is the right tool for the job? Generally, server side scripting would not deal with such a thing. You might be able to use some client side scripting to get the job done, but I am not sure of the details, and it may be seen by security software as malicious behaviour.

bearbug

Perhaps so, but the amount of work involved to change motivates me to find a way around the problem.

Thanks for the advice though, it all helps.