Changing Directorys when uploading

spikechu

Hey,

So ive been trying to figure this out today and i have tried everything.

my upload image code is this.

<?php
include('includes/functions.php');
include('includes/header.php');



$username = $_SESSION['user'];




if ($_POST['submit_avatar'])
		{
			// get avatar image 
			$name = $_FILES['Avatar'] ['name'];
			$tmp_name = $_FILES['Avatar'] ['tmp_name'];

			if ($name)
			{

			// star upload


			$location = "avatar/$name";

			move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $location);

			$query = mysql_query ("UPDATE users SET Avatar='$location' WHERE username='$username'");
			die("avatar is upload");

			}
			else 

			die(error);
		}
		?>

        <form action="avatar.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="Avatar"><input type="submit" name="submit_avatar" value="Upload">
        </form>

        <?php

		$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE username='$username'");
		if (mysql_num_rows($query)==0)
	die("user not found");
	else {

	$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
		echo $row['Avatar'];
		$location = $row['Avatar'];
		echo "<img src='$location' width='100' height='100'>";





	}?>

as of now it saves it to the higher directory of Project/admin/avatar

where i want it to go is Project/images/avatar.

i tried

$avatar_root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/Project/images/avatar");

But it goes to E://Xammp/htdocs/Project/images/avatar
and doesnt see localhost at all.
and the images wont load.

what i wanted to do is create the code as easy as possible so when i upload it to the real server i dont want to have to change over a ton of .php files to change paths.

advice?

planetsim

Whats the issue exactly ? You say that you changed the avatar_root variable to the document root /Project/images/avatar and goes to E:/Xammp/htdocs/Project/images/avatar

From what I can gather that seems correct. Is the file actually being uploaded to the directory ? Is E:/Xammp/htdocs the actual document root ? I am unsure otherwise as to why you are unable to see it on localhost as its not as though windows has write permissions similar to that of Linux/Unix where this would affect it (at least the last time I had a windows machine with a WAMP setup).

Are you getting any errors ? Perhaps check your logs in case you have error reporting low.

spikechu

hey planetsim.

I thought the same as you...

But i get no errors it says it uploads (which it does) but it just wont show the image... its like it doesnt want to see the path E:/Xammp/htdocs/Project/images/avatar
and only wants to see http://localhost/Project/images/avatar

its confusing me...

DaveRandom

What happens if you

print(getcwd());

It looks to me as if your script is working in the 'Project/admin' directory, and $location is specified relative to the CWD. Try changing $location to "../images/avatar/$name" if you must specify it relatively.

spikechu

DaveRandom;10972731 wrote:
What happens if you
print(getcwd());
It looks to me as if your script is working in the 'Project/admin' directory, and $location is specified relative to the CWD. Try changing $location to "../images/avatar/$name" if you must specify it relatively.

i get this

E:\xampp\htdocs\Project\admin

DaveRandom

P.S. Write permissions CAN be an issue on Windows, but will not usually be prevalent for system services, since they run under the SYSTEM account, which by default has write permissions for every local volume.

You can change the user account it runs under in the Services MSC snap-in, which I have had to do before in order to give PHP scripts access to network drives. If I remember rightly, I posted on here ages ago on this very subject, I'll see if I can find that post and put a link to it here.

DaveRandom

Right, you're working in the wrong directory, that's why things keep ending up in the wrong place.

Try this segment

				// star upload


			$location = "/Project/images/avatar/$name";
			$locationrel = "../images/avatar/$name";

			move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $locationrel);

			$query = mysql_query ("UPDATE users SET Avatar='$location' WHERE username='$username'");

spikechu

hahah i new it was going to be something so simple.. that worked perfectly!
Thank you

spikechu

Ok maybe i shoule post this in a new topic but its tied to the same image loader so ill post my issue below.

So i have a backend where the admin user can go in and edit users.

right now i use the code below to access the users

function getUser($id) {
	$id = (int) $id;
	$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE ID = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
	return mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
}

in the edit user screen i call

$user = getUser($_GET['id']);

at the top and then use

<input type="text" name="username" class="input with_corners" value="<?php echo $user['Username']; ?>" />

to call the data from the database to display that users current users info..

so i figured if i did this

echo "<img src='$user['Avatar'] width='100' height='100'>";

it should display the image but i get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING
on the line above...

DaveRandom

Firstly, you're missing a closing ' on your HTML src attribute, so it wouldn't display correctly anyway.

Secondly, even in a double-quote encapsed string, you can't place associative array keys directly into the string like you can with indexed arrays - use

"Start of string ".$var['key']." end of string";

"Start of string {$var['key']} end of string";

instead - I suggest you read this.

Thirdly, if you are getting a parse error on the line above, the problem is probably with that line (or a missing semi-colon on the line above that one)

Can you post a few lines from above

echo "<img src='$user['Avatar'] width='100' height='100'>";

spikechu

Hey,

I actually got it working.

what i did for anyone out there that may have the same issue

i used this in my functions PHP

function getUser($id) {
	$id = (int) $id;
	$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE ID = '$id'") or die(mysql_error());
	return mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
}

and in my actually user php

$user = getUser($_GET['id']);

at the top of the page

and then used

	$location = $user['Avatar']; 
echo "<img src='$location' width='100' height='100'>"; ?>

it worked like a charm.

Thanks for your help.