File Uploads

Anon

I have wrote a simple file upload script, the idea is for people to upload their Sage scripts to our server. The problem lies with the path the file is copied to, as follows:

if (copy($userfile, $dest_path . $newfile)) {
The variable $dest_path equals 'http://www.myaddress.co.uk/. The error i am getting is Is

'Warning: Unable to create 'http://myaddress.co.ukContact Kinspeed Ltd1.htm': Invalid argument in c:\apache\htdocs\kin_upload\confirm.php on line 16'

I can put any address in and i still get invalid argument. I think the problem lies with the 'HTTP://' part of the address, but i need this or something to substitute it because the server i am uploading to is at another address from the upload script. Any help will be very much appreciated, thanks.

Anon

Hi!
I have been fighting with same problem...
I try to do multi-upload feature in dynamic web UI, with sincle file upload I did get it work fine.
This function works fine on my server and with many input files...
But I haven't tryed to name upload path with web address, so one easy solution is to give the real physical address like I did.

$the_path = "./upload"; // The real path where the file is uploaded to.
function upload($file) //Function for uploading the file
{
global $the_path,$file_name;
while(list($key, $value) = each($file))
{
if($file_name[$key])
copy("$file[$key]", "$the_path/$file_name[$key]");
unlink($file[$key]);
}
form(); // Call to function form()
}

Anon

Hi, yes i can get it to work fine this way, but we store the uploaded files on a different server and a different web address to the one where the script lies, so you see i need the actual web address not just the directory.

Anon

At this moment I'm doing upload function with ftp_put, with ftp_connect which gives the way to different server too...
I'm not sure that you can upload to different server with upload function like we have done.
............. Piley :-)

gtmad

you cant create a file in http://whatever.com because this is not the name of the directory. You need the actual path on the server.

you can get this by typing

` = backtick - top left hand corner of your keyboard.

print chop(pwd)

it will probably be something like

/home/httpd/webdir/docs/

so then do:

if (is_uploaded_file($userfile)){
$path = "/home/httpd/webdir/docs/$userfile_name";
move_uploaded_file($userfile,$path);
};

i prefer the move_uploaded_file, just because this does not leave the temp file to be cleared up.

you can use copy, like so:

copy ($userfile,$path);

gtmad

oh. sorry, is answered the wrong question.

you need a username and password for the other webserver, you will need to have the file uploaded onto your server first, like my first answer.

Now, you need to know the correct linux commands for what you want to do. Type this into your php script, enclosed in backticks (`).

ftp server.name -u username -p password put yourfile /whereyouwant

i say eg, because i havent a clue what the commmands are, im just guessing. Make sure you disconnect from your ftp connection before you finish the script.