uploading images

falsepride · 11-23-2004, 12:31 PM

okay i really don't have time to look up how to upload an image. all i need is an extremely basic script that uploads a image into a designated folder of my chioce. can anyone do me this favor? please help me out soon as possible

sde · 11-23-2004, 01:01 PM

even though i hesitate to help someone who's excuse is meerely that they don't have time, i'll point you in the right direction. my time must not be as valuable as yours.

in short, there are 4 steps to this process.

1. add enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form tag.
2. add a file field <input type=file name=file>
3. after the form is submitted, use the $_FILES[] array to get your data. The temporary file for this example would be $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']
4. copy the temporary file to a directory which allows the web user to write to.

All the elements are here, .. now you just need to put them together.

Good Luck!

falsepride · 11-23-2004, 01:07 PM

well im running dial up, with only one phone line in my house, testing php scripts can be a tedious task, and i have a lot of coding ahead me of for what im working on, and i mean a lot

idx · 11-23-2004, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by falsepride

well im running dial up, with only one phone line in my house, testing php scripts can be a tedious task, and i have a lot of coding ahead me of for what im working on, and i mean a lot

If you haven't already setup a local installation of apache/php/mysql/etc then I'd highly recommend it. Check out the Apache2Triad project for a bundle of everything already configured for windows use. There are also several other similar projects, but I can't remember them right now.

With something like that installed, you can do some local dev without dialing up. It might also be helpful to download the php docs to view offline.

-r

falsepride · 11-23-2004, 06:30 PM

i once had something set up where i could test php files without uploading. i found the instructions at http://poff.sixbit.org/article.php?apache. but i think it wouldn't recognize variables passed through the url and it was pissing me off because parts of my site weren't display properly.

sde · 11-23-2004, 07:37 PM

you need to set register_globals to on in the php.ini file. otherwise, you need to use $_GET[] to retreive url variables and $_POST[] for post variables.

i ALWAYS use $_GET[] and $_POST[] anyway so my applications are more portable and I don't fear that if this setting on a server was changed, that my scripts would fail.

Kernel_Killer · 11-23-2004, 07:42 PM

I know this is under PHP, but here's the CGI script I use for uploading. Fairly simple.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use CGI;

$upload_dir = "/usr/local/www/files/upload";

$query = new CGI;

$filename = $query->param("photo");
$filename =~ s/.*[\/\\](.*)/$1/;
$upload_filehandle = $query->upload("photo");

open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename";

while ( <$upload_filehandle> )
 {
   print UPLOADFILE;
 }

close UPLOADFILE;

print $query->header ( );
print <<END_HTML;

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Thanks!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>Uploaded file</P>
<br><br>
<a href="/files/index.html">Upload Another</a><br>
<a href="/files/upload">See Files</a><br>
</BODY>
</HTML>

END_HTML