Remote Upload help.

paul1311

Hey all, Well im a real noob but have been spending some time on this now.

I input the url to the file i want to store on my server from another server but it doesen't work.

It consists of two files.

Index.php and copy.php

Index.php :

<p align="center"><font size="6">Remote File Copy Script</font><font size="5"><br>
</font>Simply copy remote files to your sever.</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<form method="GET" action="copy.php">
	<p align="center"><font size="5">File:</font>
	<input type="text" name="file" size="55" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt; border: 1px solid #FF9933; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px" tabindex="1"><br>
	<br>
&nbsp;
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #FF9933; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; background-color: #FFECD9" />
<br>
	<br>
	Ex: http://www.example.com/test.zip</p>
</form>

and copy.php

<?php
$file= $_GET['file'];

$path = "$file";

$newfile = basename($path);
echo "Done.";


if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
    echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
?>

Also if you could help on changing the default save directory to /files/ and maybe some sort of progress bar like counting up the kilobytes it has transfered. (Ive had this on my old script that didnt work, it only showed bytes and not kilobytes)

Thanks.

CRichardson

Visit:
http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4683.html

zbee

Ok, dude, I hope this helps.

First, files are uploaded using the POST method.
Second, you need to use an input of the file type

<input name="file_to_upload" type="file" />

Because in your code you're only sending the url of the file, not the file itself, and PHP can only use that as a string. You're probably going to have to download the file to your machine, and then upload it to your server.
This is a good article I use to upload files with:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php. Now, if you want a progress bar, well, you're gonna have to do it with Javascript, or if you're in the mood for a good plunge ActionScript, not with PHP.