Question

Im doing an image gallery CMS using Mysql database and PHP. Im a newbie.

Im having a path problem.

here is my file structure:
this php doc – root/php/upload_portrait.php.
My images are stored here – root/images/portrait_gallery/

So I added the ../ to save the images in root/images/portrait_gallery/
that works fine.

but in the db the url is stored with the ../ and that path is incorrect since they are being called from the root index file. So no images show up.

HOW can I remove the ../ upon INSERT INTO in the database??

I have tried with replace and update but cant figure out how.

Here Is my code

$portrait_url= $_FILES['upload'];

// 2. connect to database: 
include 'connect.php';

// 4. handle moving image from temp location to images folder (using the function billedupload)
$billedurl = billedupload($portrait_url);       
if($billedurl == false){        
    die("Something is wrong");
}

// 5. Insert imageupload in database:
$query = "INSERT INTO portrait (portrait_id, portrait_url) VALUES ('$portrait_id', '$billedurl')";
$result = mysqli_query($dblink, $query) or die( "Forespørgsel 2 kunne ikke udføres: " . mysqli_error($dblink) );

// 6. close connection
mysqli_close($dblink);

function billedupload($filearray){      
    if($filearray['type']=='image/jpeg' or $filearray['type']=='image/png'){
        $tmp_navn = $filearray['tmp_name'];             
        $filnavn = $filearray['name'];          
        $url = '../images/portrait_gallery/' . time() . $filnavn;           
        move_uploaded_file($tmp_navn, $url);            
    return $url;    
    } 
    else{           
        return false;       
    }   
}

Answer 1

If all you need to to remove ‘/..’ — then,

str_replace is a function in PHP that allows you to remove/change parts of strings on the fly, so, in your code,

replace

$billedurl = billedupload($portrait_url);

with

$billedurl = str_replace('/..','',billedupload($portrait_url));