[SOLVED] Generating link with basename

[rilana]

Hi guyes, I hope you can help me, I know this is suposed to be easy but I dont get it. After searching the web for a soulution I am hoping for your help now. I have a form which uploads files to the server, but now I wanna create an automatic link to the upload file. So if someone uploads a file it will generate and save the link to the file in the mysql database. I have the following:

$target_path = "uploads/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    echo "Die Datei " .  basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). 
    " wurde erfolgreich hochgeladen.";
[color=red]$link = "http://rilana.biz/uploads/".basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). ;[/color]
} else{
    echo "Beim hochladen der Datei gab es Probleme.";
}

 

This does not work, I dont know the syntax to combine the $link with the basename and also I am not clear if I need the stuff after basename.

I would aprechiate any imput on this. Thanks a lot, Rilana

[zenag]

$link = "http://rilana.biz/uploads/".basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']) ;

[rilana]

wow thanks that worked, I wasn't so far off after all :-) But the next problem is the following, I have a form where I say 

<input name="link" type="text" id="link" value="http://www." size="60" maxlength="500" /> 

this is sent to the php where I first upload files if there are any to upload. And thats where I create the $link new with

$link = "http://rilana.biz/uploads/".basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']) ;

if I echo the $link here its all perfect. But as I go down my script, I do this

//connecting
$dbname = ".";
$dbloc = ".";
$dbuser = ".";
$dbpass = ".";
mysql_connect($dbloc, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die (mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($dbname) or die (mysql_error());
//end connecting

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'UTF8'");  

$link = strip_tags($_POST['link']);

if($link == "http://www.")
    {
   $link = "leer";
    }


$insert_str1  = "INSERT INTO news (link) VALUES ('$link')";

 

If I echo the $link here, it's leer. So I guess it still takes the value from the form, unstead of the value from the earlier lines of the script. How can I change that?  Is it evan possible to do this within one script?

 

Thanks for your help, Rilana

[rilana]

ok I figured it out. I used

$ink = $_GET['link']; unstead of
$link = strip_tags($_POST['link']);