Uploading Images With PHP Difficulty

[ChrisScicluna]

Hi all users,

I am new to this forum but iv been developing with php for these last 6 months. I have a cms (content managment system) which allows me to upload pictures, now the problem is that locally it is working (i have apache installed) but when i upload it to the server it is not working from the php that adds the picture along with details i am calling a config.php from a library file which has the path where the thumbnails and images should be stored.

 

But it seems that it is not storing them at all neither in the directory i specified in the config.php and neither anywhere on the server. I checked the rights to the files and the rights ok i have permission to write in them.

 

I think the problem is with the path i did an absolute url and it still did not work. Can anyone help me? I would be really gratefull!

 

Many Thanks and Kind Regards,

Chris Scicluna

 

P.s. Please help me...

[spdwrench]

I was having some serious issues with large image files not uploading...

 

believe it or not after pulling out my hair for a week or so...

 

I looked at my phpinfo.php file and found the max upload set to 2M

 

I changed it and all is good... I dunno if this is your issue? it does not return an error when this happens.

 

Paul

[ChrisScicluna]

Hi Paul thanks for your answer.

No basically it is smaller than 2mb so i dont think that is the issue, here is the php of the file that is uploading the image:

 

<?php

require_once 'PATH WHERE CONFIG FILE IS LOCATED';

require_once 'PATH WHERE FUNCTIONS FILE IS LOCATED';

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

{

$codeNumber = $_POST['txtName'];

$priceNumber = $_POST['priceLm'];

$priceEuroNumber = $_POST['priceEuro'];

$colourNumber = $_POST['colourRGB'];

$sizeNumber = $_POST['sizeCM'];

 

$imgName  = $_FILES['fleImage']['name'];

$tmpName  = $_FILES['fleImage']['tmp_name'];

 

// we need to rename the image name just to avoid

// duplicate file names

// first get the file extension

$ext = strrchr($imgName, ".");

 

// then create a new random name

$newName = md5(rand() * time()) . $ext;

 

    // the album image will be saved here

    $imgPath = ALBUM_IMG_DIR . $newName;

 

// resize all album image

$result = createThumbnail($tmpName, $imgPath, THUMBNAIL_WIDTH);

 

if (!$result) {

echo "Error uploading file";

exit;

}

 

    if (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {

        $codeNumber  = addslashes($codeNumber);

        $priceNumber  = addslashes($priceNumber);

        $priceEuroNumber  = addslashes($priceEuroNumber);

        $colourNumber  = addslashes($colourNumber);

        $sizeNumber  = addslashes($sizeNumber);

   

    } 

 

$query = "INSERT INTO tbl_album (al_code, al_lm, al_euro, al_colour, al_size, al_image, al_date)

  VALUES ('$codeNumber', '$priceNumber', '$priceEuroNumber','$colourNumber','$sizeNumber','$newName', NOW())";

 

    mysql_query($query) or die('Error, add album failed : ' . mysql_error());                   

 

    // the album is saved, go to the album list

echo "<script>window.location.href='index.php?page=list-album';</script>";

exit;

}

?>

 

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="frmAlbum" id="frmAlbum">

   

  <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" class="table_grey">

    <tr>

      <th width="150"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Code

        Number:</font></th>

      <td width="80" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <input name="txtName" type="text" id="txtName"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <th height="46"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Price in Lm:</font></th>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="priceLm" type="text" id="priceLm"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <th height="46"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Price in Euro:</font></th>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="priceEuro" type="text" id="priceEuro"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <th height="46"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Colour:</font></th>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="colourRGB" type="text" id="colourRGB"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <th width="150" height="46"><p><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sizes:</font></p></th>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><input name="sizeCM" type="text" id="sizeCM"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <th width="150"><font size="-1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Image:</font></th>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <input name="fleImage" type="file" class="box" id="fleImage"></td>

    </tr>

    <tr>

      <td width="150" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> </td>

      <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <input name="btnAdd" type="submit" id="btnAdd" value="Add">

        <input name="btnCancel" type="button" id="btnCancel" value="Cancel" onClick="window.history.back();"></td>

    </tr>

  </table>

</form>

 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

and this is the path in the php config file:

 

// an album can have an image used as thumbnail

// we save the album image here

define('ALBUM_IMG_DIR', 'http://www.sml.com.mt/webroot/gallery/images/Album/');

 

// all images inside an album are stored here

define('GALLERY_IMG_DIR', 'http://www.sml.com.mt/webroot/gallery/images/gallery/');

 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

if you go to http://www.sml.com.mt/try/admin/index.php you can see that the php gets the info from the database but the picture is not there

 

Thanks again for your reply, hope you can help me out

 

[ChrisScicluna]

Sorry i forgot the login

 

Username: neilsmledit

Password: smledit2007!

 

Thanks & Kind Regards

[teng84]

can you point the line that uploads the image

[ChrisScicluna]

$imgName  = $_FILES['fleImage']['name'];

  $tmpName  = $_FILES['fleImage']['tmp_name'];

 

  // we need to rename the image name just to avoid

  // duplicate file names

  // first get the file extension

  $ext = strrchr($imgName, ".");

 

  // then create a new random name

  $newName = md5(rand() * time()) . $ext;

 

    // the album image will be saved here

    $imgPath = ALBUM_IMG_DIR . $newName;

 

  // resize all album image

  $result = createThumbnail($tmpName, $imgPath, THUMBNAIL_WIDTH);

 

 

 

This is the part that has to do with the image, and it saves the randomname into the mysql database so that when information is needed the name is picked up from mysql and the image with the respective random name is loaded next to the details

[ChrisScicluna]

If this can help you in the functions.php file i have this:

 

<?php

/*

Upload an image and create the thumbnail. The thumbnail is stored

under the thumbnail sub-directory of $uploadDir.

 

Return the uploaded image name and the thumbnail also.

*/

function uploadImage($inputName, $uploadDir)

{

$image    = $_FILES[$inputName];

$imagePath = '';

$thumbnailPath = '';

 

// if a file is given

if (trim($image['tmp_name']) != '') {

$ext = substr(strrchr($image['name'], "."), 1);

 

// generate a random new file name to avoid name conflict

// then save the image under the new file name

$imagePath = md5(rand() * time()) . ".$ext";

$result    = move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $uploadDir . $imagePath);

 

if ($result) {

// create thumbnail

$thumbnailPath =  md5(rand() * time()) . ".$ext";

$result = createThumbnail($uploadDir . $imagePath, $uploadDir . 'thumbnail/' . $thumbnailPath, THUMBNAIL_WIDTH);

 

// create thumbnail failed, delete the image

if (!$result) {

unlink($uploadDir . $imagePath);

$imagePath = $thumbnailPath = '';

} else {

$thumbnailPath = $result;

}

} else {

// the image cannot be uploaded

$imagePath = $thumbnailPath = '';

}

 

}

 

 

return array('image' => $imagePath, 'thumbnail' => $thumbnailPath);

}

 

/*

Create a thumbnail of $srcFile and save it to $destFile.

The thumbnail will be $width pixels.

*/

function createThumbnail($srcFile, $destFile, $width, $quality = 75)

{

$thumbnail = '';

 

if (file_exists($srcFile)  && isset($destFile))

{

$size        = getimagesize($srcFile);

$w          = number_format($width, 0, ',', '');

$h          = number_format(($size[1] / $size[0]) * $width, 0, ',', '');

 

$thumbnail =  copyImage($srcFile, $destFile, $w, $h, $quality);

}

 

// return the thumbnail file name on sucess or blank on fail

return basename($thumbnail);

}

 

/*

Copy an image to a destination file. The destination

image size will be $w X $h pixels

*/

function copyImage($srcFile, $destFile, $w, $h, $quality = 75)

{

    $tmpSrc    = pathinfo(strtolower($srcFile));

    $tmpDest    = pathinfo(strtolower($destFile));

    $size      = getimagesize($srcFile);

 

    if ($tmpDest['extension'] == "gif" || $tmpDest['extension'] == "jpg")

    {

      $destFile  = substr_replace($destFile, 'jpg', -3);

      $dest      = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);

      //imageantialias($dest, TRUE);

    } elseif ($tmpDest['extension'] == "png") {

      $dest = imagecreatetruecolor($w, $h);

      //imageantialias($dest, TRUE);

    } else {

      return false;

    }

 

    switch($size[2])

    {

      case 1:      //GIF

          $src = imagecreatefromgif($srcFile);

          break;

      case 2:      //JPEG

          $src = imagecreatefromjpeg($srcFile);

          break;

      case 3:      //PNG

          $src = imagecreatefrompng($srcFile);

          break;

      default:

          return false;

          break;

    }

 

    imagecopyresampled($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, $w, $h, $size[0], $size[1]);

 

    switch($size[2])

    {

      case 1:

      case 2:

          imagejpeg($dest,$destFile, $quality);

          break;

      case 3:

          imagepng($dest,$destFile);

    }

    return $destFile;

 

}

[teng84]

did you print the variable to see if the path is correct

 

 

[ChrisScicluna]

What do you mean by printing the variable? Can you please tell me exactly what i have to do thanks I would be very gratefull if you helped me in solving this problem since this is the only thing that is keeping me away from finishing the site.

 

Thanks & Kind Regards,

Chris Scicluna

[chronister]

Is the directory in which your trying to store the files writable?? Unless someone else knows something I don't, I had to set the dir for my image upload script to 777

 

 

Nate