input type='file'

[dotkpay]

I have an html file where users can browse a file whose contents are imported to a mysql database by a php file.

I use file as the input type (input type='file') for the brwse field.

But when I specify a file and click the submit button, only the file name is seen by the php file;

For example if I browse C:\file.txt only file.txt will be recieved and not the whole path.

Other than the encoding type for the html form, what could be the problem?

Thanks in advance.

[kenrbnsn]

Please post your form and the PHP script.

 

Ken

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That's the way it is designed to work.

 

And as far as the server is concerned, it does not matter what the actual path is on the client was, why do you care if you only get the filename?

[dotkpay]

I need the whole path so that I can browse and open a file on the desktop without having to upload it to my webserver.

 

[kenrbnsn]

Unless your server is running on your windows box, you can't do that with PHP.

 

Ken

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That makes no sense.

 

If you have a form with a  input type='file' field, the intent of that is to upload the file to the web server that the form submits to.

 

If you are just browsing files on your computer for use on your computer, you would not be using a  form in a browser.