[SOLVED] Upload file and create directory for each user?

[sayedsohail]

Hi everyone,

 

I just saw an interesting thread, for uploading files - but my problem is just to add a directory for each user, the user name are stored in session variable sess_uname?

 

I am not sure how do i check if the directory is already exists for the logged user.  if directory exists than i i just want to move the file to that directory otherwise create directory with the name as sess_uname and store the file.

 

Can anyone please help in this regard.

 

Thanks

 

<?php 

//This is the directory where images will be saved 
$path = '../images/';

//This gets all the other information from the form 
$name=$_POST['name']; 
$suburb=$_POST['suburb']; 
$price=$_POST['price']; 
$content=$_POST['content']; 
$uploadFile0=($_FILES['uploadFile0']['name']); 
$uploadFile1=($_FILES['uploadFile1']['name']);
$uploadFile2=($_FILES['uploadFile2']['name']);
$uploadFile3=($_FILES['uploadFile3']['name']);
$uploadFile4=($_FILES['uploadFile4']['name']);
$uploadFile5=($_FILES['uploadFile5']['name']);
$uploadFile6=($_FILES['uploadFile6']['name']);
$uploadFile7=($_FILES['uploadFile7']['name']);
$uploadFile8=($_FILES['uploadFile8']['name']);



// Connects to your Database 
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "10000") or die(mysql_error()) ; 
mysql_select_db("docs") or die(mysql_error()) ; 

// Check the extension is valid
if (preg_match('/\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$/i', $_FILES['uploadFile'. $x]['name'])){


//Writes the information to the database

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `employees` VALUES ('$name', '$suburb', '$price', '$content', '$uploadFile0', '$uploadFile1', '$uploadFile2', '$uploadFile3', '$uploadFile4', '$uploadFile5', '$uploadFile6', '$uploadFile7', '$uploadFile8')") ; 


$uploadNeed = $_POST['uploadNeed'];
// start for loop
for($x=0;$x<$uploadNeed;$x++){
$file_name = $_FILES['uploadFile'. $x]['name'];
// strip file_name of slashes
$file_name = stripslashes($file_name);
$file_name = str_replace("'","",$file_name);
$copy = move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadFile'. $x]['tmp_name'], $path . $file_name);

}
else {
   // Add your error code here
   echo "Sorry, file must be of type .jpg .jpeg .gif or .png\n";
}




// check if successfully copied

if($copy){
print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0;URL=property_added_successfully.php\">";
} else{
echo "$file_name | could not be uploaded!<br>";
}
} // end of loop
?>

[HuggieBear]

Hi everyone,

 

I just saw an interesting thread, for uploading files - but my problem is just to add a directory for each user, the user name are stored in session variable sess_uname?

 

I am not sure how do i check if the directory is already exists for the logged user.  if directory exists than i i just want to move the file to that directory otherwise create directory with the name as sess_uname and store the file.

 

Check the manual for the following functions:

 

file_exists()

move_uploaded_file()

mkdir()

 

These should be the main ones you'll need.

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

is there anything such as directory exists?, can you please help with a little bit of code.

[HuggieBear]

You can use file_exists() for directories, that's why I suggested it.  Look at the link I provided.

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

This is simple code, but its not working? no errors, although i removed the session in my second try. ?

 

<?php
//session_start();
//$uname = $_SESSION['sess_uname'];
$uname = "tmp1";
$path= 'pdf/'.$uname.'/'
$filename = '/'.$path.'/doc1.doc';

if (file_exists($path)) {
echo " The Directory $path exists";
}
else {
    echo "The directory $path does not exist";
}

if (file_exists($filename)) {
    echo "The file $filename exists";
} else {
    echo "The file $filename does not exist";
}
?> 

[HuggieBear]

OK, and what's the output you're getting?

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

nothing just blank page.

[HuggieBear]

You're missing a semi-colon off of the path...

 

Try this:

 

<?php

$uname = "tmp1";
$path = 'pdf/'.$uname.'/';
$filename = '/' . $path . 'doc1.doc';

if (file_exists($path)) {
   echo " The Directory $path exists";
}
else {
   echo "The directory $path does not exist";
}

if (file_exists($filename)) {
   echo "The file $filename exists";
}
else {
   echo "The file $filename does not exist";
}
?>

 

This will noly work from your document root though as you're putting a forward slash in front of the path.  Is that what you want?

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

I slightly changed the first three lines and it worked?

 

$uname = "tmp1";

$path = 'pdf/'.$uname.'/';

$filename = "$path" ."doc1.doc";

[HuggieBear]

I slightly changed the first three lines and it worked?

 

Why the question mark.  Did it work?

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

yes i am trying to add this code now, not sure this is the right way.

 

$mode = 0777;

if (!is_dir($path) && !mkdir($path, $mode))

      {mkdir( "$uname" ,  0777); }

[sayedsohail]

I was told using umask(0), is better before making any directories or writting files, can someone please explain little bit about umask(0), please.

 

Thanks,

 

$oldumask = umask(0);
$mode = 0777;
   if (!is_dir($path) && !mkdir($path, $mode))
       {mkdir( "$uname" ,  0777); }
umask($oldumask); 

[HuggieBear]

Before we go any further with permissions, is your server running Windows or Unix/Linux flavoured box?

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

windows 2003?

[HuggieBear]

In that case you can pretty much ignore all the permissions stuff I believe as Windows doesn't implement it properly.

 

Regards

Huggie

[sayedsohail]

million thanks,

 

The directory i am creating is basically the name of the client i.e, ABC Ltd or XYZBCDD Co. or Cat's Co.,  here i wish to abstract only the alphabets and only the first bit i.e., ABC and XYZBCDD and Cats replacing the other characters exists inside the first bit as you notice Cats in place of Cat's Co.

 

I am not sure if str_replace could do all that work.

 

$file_name=$_GET['client_name'];

$file_name = str_replace("'","",$file_name);

 

or

 

substr($file_name,strpos($file_name,$pattern)+strlen($pattern));

 

or

 

$str = preg_replace('/.'*?/',  $file_name);

 

Can you please suggest something here.

[MadTechie]

basic filename filter

$file_name = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9]/si', '', $file_name);

[sayedsohail]

Thanks madtechie, can you please explain how it works, please. specially the /si bit is something new for me. and how do i take only the first occurance of letters from the full company ie., cat's co ltd to $file_name='cats';

 

 

$file_name="Cat's Company Ltd.";

tosomethign like this using preg_replace or preg_split, i am not sure could i achieve this.

$file_name ="cats";

[sayedsohail]

???

[MadTechie]

try this

**untested**

<?php
$file_name="Cat's Company Ltd.";
//replaces everything except a-z and 0-9 and spaces with nothing (the /i is case insensitive)
$file_name = preg_replace('/([^a-z0-9 ])/i', '', $file_name);
//So $file_name is "Cats Company Ltd"

//Now get the first word
if (preg_match('/(\w+)/si', $file_name, $regs))
{
$file_name = $regs[1];
}

echo $file_name;
//should be Cats
?>