Small Script help!

[don victor]

Hi

 

I am using a simple PHP script to copy files from a server to another server.  The way I use it right now is not conveneit, becuase I go everytime and edit it and call in my broswer to get each file. 

 

<?php
if(!copy("http://source.com/file.zip", "destination.zip"))
{
echo("failed to copy file");
}
;
?>

 

could anyone help me make it like a form with a submit buttun, meaning I can just fill in a couple of planks and hit a submit key to do the process?

 

by the way this script saves the file to the same directory it is in

 

thanks in advance

[patrickmvi]

You could just write a simple form that would look something like this:

 

<form method="POST">
Source File: <input type="text" name="source"><br>
Destination File: <input type="text" name="dest"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Copy">
</form>

 

Then you could change your code to read:

 

<?php
if(!copy($_POST['source'], $_POST['dest']))
{
echo("failed to copy file");
}
;
?>

 

You would have to make sure, however that this script is secured somehow as to not allow anybody to stumble on it and start downloading malicious scripts to your location.

 

[don victor]

thanks,

 

but that would be two files, one HTML with the form and another PHP?

 

where does the form refer to the PHP file?

 

 

[shergold]

do you mean how are the two files connected?,

the form posts the data to the php file which is collected by the php file '$_POST[source]'.