onikboss Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 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 $_FILES variables were NULL after the form was submitted.Still can't understand why! Are there any other methods for uploading a file from the client machine to the server? Can I get a competent script for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
litebearer Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 enctype="multipart/form-data Works just fine, sooooo Post your code where we might discover the problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gizmola Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 You may have left out a key detail. The form must use method="post"! If you neglected to include that, it could explain your results. This page has every thing you need to know to get your file upload working. http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onikboss Posted February 12, 2011 Author Share Posted February 12, 2011 this is the form: <form action="upload.php" method="post" name="upload" enctype="multipart/form-data"> Upload in category: <select name="category"> <option value="category">C1</option> </select> <br /> <br /> File: <input type="file" style=" width: 250px" name="path" /> <br /> <br /> <button type="submit" name="submit_upload">Upload</button> </form> and this is how i'm accessing the variables: if (isset($_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" I have all the source files on a free hosting server. If you, guys, need more details please let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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