Question

I am trying to upload an image to the server (with a path in mysql table) twice through php with different names. One version of the image as “xxxx.png” and the other version of the image as “xxxxt.png”.

My php is:

<?php

if ($_FILES['photo']) {
  $target = "images/properties/";  
  $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']); 

  $pic = "images/properties/" .(mysql_real_escape_string($_FILES['photo']['name']));

  if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target)) {
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO `images` (`productcode`, `photo`) VALUES ('$productcode', '$pic' )");
    echo "The new image has been added successfully"; 
  } else { 
    echo "Error uploading new image - please check the format and size"; 
  }
}

?> 

The above code inserts the image into the mysql database and uploads the file to the server correctly.
I am however trying to upload the same image twice with a different naming convention on a “thumbnail” version. The slideshow script in my html only recognises the thumbnails if there are named with a “t” at the end of the filenames hence my problem.

I have been advised to look at the php copy() function to achieve this but am incredibly unclear as to how to incorporate such a function into my existing code.
Happy to provide the html or any other info if required.

Any help much appreciated. I did have another thread attempting to find out the same thing but I wasn’t very clear!

Thanks
JD

Answer 1

As you’ve been advised you should use copy(). I didn’t fully test this but give it a try:

<?php

if ($_FILES['photo'])
{
    $target = "images/properties/";

    $ext = array_pop(explode('.', $_FILES['photo']['name']));
    $copy = $target . basename($_FILES['photo']['name'], '.' . $ext) . 't.' . $ext;

    $target = $target . basename($_FILES['photo']['name']);

    $pic = "images/properties/" .(mysql_real_escape_string($_FILES['photo']['name']));

    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target))
    {
        copy($target, $copy);
        mysql_query("INSERT INTO `images` (`productcode`, `photo`) VALUES ('$productcode', '$pic' )");
        echo "The new image has been added successfully";
    }
    else
    {
        echo "Error uploading new image - please check the format and size";
    }
}
?>