file upload and validation

DKY

I'm looking for a bit of code that will find out if a text file exists on a local users machine and if it does uploads it to the server.

I was originally trying to figure out how to get the $_FILES['File']['tmp_name'] from a string that is the location to the file (the same location on every users machine) but came up empty...

Any ideas? Is there a better way to handle this?

dagon

DKY;10975864 wrote:
I'm looking for a bit of code that will find out if a text file exists on a local users machine and if it does uploads it to the server.

if local user is any visitor your site, then you can't (luck for us all) otherwise, what do you mean local user?

DKY

Yeah, I just realized that this would be a pretty big security hole if allowed... I have a web server on an intranet here and am trying to transition users from this Access db application to a new php app. Part of the process is to take their tables on their Access front end or their 'sandbox' if you will and create a txt file that can then be imported into the mysql table. I found that although I can create a txt file in their my documents (using Access) that is the data from their table I can't do anything with it on the php side. I tried the copy command and it is looking for files and paths on the server side (duh). Eh well, I may have to try and use a dos batch file to do the trick and have it call php once the file is copied over to the server.