Storing a file in a php array?

[unknown101]

 

Hi Guys,

 

Im reasonably new to php but am working on quite a difficult project so please take this into account!  I have been searching the internet for examples of how to transmit data to a given server (for example a simple .php server).  At the moment im not interested in how the server side deals with it but just how the client side does.

 

The front end gives the user the abiltiy to upload a fie (say in this case an image .jpg).  Basically the file is selected into an upload field and then a submit button hit.  From here is where I need help   How will the image will be stored so it can be transmitted?  I know in java you can use byte arrays, but I dont seem to be able to find anything useful on the web to do this in php?

 

Can anyone point me in the right direction for storing a file in a .php script then sending...?

 

Thanks in advance.

[anatak]

go to the php tutorial section and look for writing an upload class in OOP

 

here is the link

http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/85/0.php

 

I hope that can help you

[snk]

I doing something similar as well... so welcome to the club

 

for the server part you need to play with sockets. a general idea is very well documented in the below site http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Socket-Programming-With-PHP/

 

for the client part you can do with sockets as well or curl www.php.net/curl, but you can use the function ftp www.php.net/ftp for client/server. I read somewhere that ftp function is very slow procedure, curl and sockets need half time to complete the transfer against ftp functions of php.

 

more specific for the client check www.php.net/sockets and go to the Example 2285. it shows exactly how to implement a client via sockets.

 

[unknown101]

Thanks for the help guys, im gona give the tutorial a run through!

[unknown101]

Hi there,

 

Ive be reading through the tutorial provided above (http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/85/0.php) but have found this assumes the file is going to be stored in a directory.

 

For the moment I just want to get the file to upload and at the server side store the file in memory (so for example in an array)...

 

So would this be a case of taking the file the user has selected, passing it to a variable, then transmitting this in an array? (If i was to do this in java, I could use a byte array but im not entirely sure how to do this in php).

 

Any help is appreciated.