Okay, I am trying to create a webpage where it uploads a photo to a folder in the Apache htdocs. And…well…it doesn’t work… I have been searching everywhere for tutorials on this and the entire thing needs to be done in PHP (some HTML is also allowed [No flash]).
Here is what I have….
<p>Browse For a File on your computer to upload it!</p>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload_photos.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="250000" />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
<?PHP
if ($uploadedfile_size >250000)
{$msg=$msg."Your uploaded file size is more than 250KB so please reduce the file size and then upload.<BR>";
$file_upload="false";}
else{
if (!($uploadedfile_type<>"image/jpeg" OR $userfile_type<>"image/tiff" OR $userfile_type<>"image/png"))
{$msg=$msg."Your uploaded file must be of JPG, PNG, or tiff. Other file types are not allowed<BR>";
$file_upload="false";}
}
?>
<!--
•enctype="multipart/form-data" - Necessary for our PHP file to function properly.
•action="upload_photos.php" - The name of our PHP page that was created.
•method="POST" - Informs the browser that we want to send information to the server using POST.
•input type="hidden" name="MA... - Sets the maximum allowable file size, in bytes, that can be uploaded. This safety mechanism is easily bypassed and we will show a solid backup solution in PHP. We have set the max file size to 100KB in this example.
•input name="uploadedfile" - uploadedfile is how we will access the file in our PHP script.
-->
</form>
</label>
</form>
Now it gets past this point, however once it gets to the other page (upload_photos.php) it says “There was an error uploading the file, please try again!”
<?php
/*
When the uploader.php file is executed, the uploaded file exists in a temporary storage area on the server. If the file is not moved to a different location it will be destroyed! To save our precious file we are going to need to make use of the $_FILES associative array.
The $_FILES array is where PHP stores all the information about files. There are two elements of this array that we will need to understand for this example.
•uploadedfile - uploadedfile is the reference we assigned in our HTML form. We will need this to tell the $_FILES array which file we want to play around with.
•$_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'] - name contains the original path of the user uploaded file.
•$_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'] - tmp_name contains the path to the temporary file that resides on the server. The file should exist on the server in a temporary directory with a temporary name.
*/
// Where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "uploads/";
/* Add the original filename to our target path.
Result is "uploads/filename.extension" */
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
/*
Now all we have to do is call the move_uploaded_file function and let PHP do its magic. The move_uploaded_file function needs to know 1) The path of the temporary file (check!) 2) The path where it is to be moved to (check!).
*/
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']).
" has been uploaded";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}
/*
If the upload is successful, then you will see the text "The file filename has been uploaded". This is because move_uploaded_file returns true if the file was moved, and false if it had a problem.
If there was a problem then the error message "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!" would be displayed.
*/
?>
Please help me, I have looked through it line by line and i don’t know why it’s doing it. It’s possibly a syntax error or something. I am brand new to PHP so i don’t doubt it. Anyway, thanks ahead of time.
Drop a PHPinfo() file down, and check what Apache has for upload_max_filesize under CORE. This might be set too low.
In case you over-looked it, check the permissions on the target directory. Make sure the target directory is set to 775, or just chmod the target directory before you write to it.