How to upload file from client to server using PHP

[onikboss]

I designed a web form that takes as input a file and that should upload that file on the server. The file is located on the client machine. The page containing the web form is handled by PHP script.

 

I found out (reading 9483658954 forum topics so far) that there are 2 methods for getting a file uploaded. The first one is using FTP, and the second one using $_FILES variable. Unfortunately i have complains regarding both of the methods.

 

Firstly, when attempting to upload the file using FTP it seems that rather the FTP server is calling "upload" a simple copy action (because the only successful thing i could do with FTP was to copy a file from location A to location B, both A and B being on the server) or I don't know to use FTP (which is probably the right answer). Then, when using $_FILES variable, I was forced to include ' enctype="multipart/form-data" ' in the form tag. After a long documentation I finally figured out that by including the enctype blah blah, the $_POST and $_FILES variables were NULL after the form was submitted.Still can't understand why!

 

 

 

Are there any other methods for uploading a file from the client machine to the server? Can I get a competent script for this?

[litebearer]

enctype="multipart/form-data  Works just fine, sooooo

 

Post your code where we might discover the problem

[gizmola]

You may have left out a key detail.  The form must use method="post"!  If you neglected to include that, it could explain your results.

 

This page has every thing you need to know to get your file upload working.

 

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

[onikboss]

this is the form:

 

<form action="upload.php" method="post" name="upload" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Upload in category:

    <select name="category">

    <option value="category">C1</option>

       

    </select>

    <br />

    <br />

    File:

    <input type="file" style=" width: 250px" name="path" />

   

    <br />

    <br />

    <button type="submit" name="submit_upload">Upload</button>

       

</form>

 

 

and this is how i'm accessing the variables:

 

if (isset($_POST['submit_upload']))

{

if ($_POST['path']!="")

{

//upload can start

                                       

                                        //here i can't figure out what script to use, because both methods failed

 

 

 

 

}

else

{

//path invalid

print '<div class="alert"><p><b>No file selected</b></p></div><br /><br />';

require("upload_form.html");

}

 

}

else

{

require('upload_form.html');

}

 

 

the output is : "No file selected"!

 

 

by the way...the form is stored into a separate file called "upload_form.html"

 

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