[FX.php List] Upload script in PHP?

[Daniel P. Brown]

    Permissions on the upload folder, if it's going to be public, should 
be 777.  Conversely, you can change the ownership to nobody (or whatever 
the Apache user on your system is), and chmod it to 700, or change the 
group to nobody (again, whatever your Apache user is) and chmod it to 770.

    If you're using a standard Linux system, php.ini is usually just in 
the /etc/ directory.  You can type `locate -u` and then `locate php.ini` 
if you want to try to find it that way.  It's possible that your slocate 
database is outdated, hence the inability to locate the file.

          ~ Dan

Bob Patin wrote:
> Dale,
>
> Thanks for the reply; I'd tried that code but I suspect I need to 
> change the permissions on the "upload" folder. What do you recommend 
> that I set the permissions to for that folder, if not "www?"
>
> Also, how do I get to the php.ini file? I tried searching for it on 
> the web server but didn't find it, but I vaguely recall working on it 
> in the past. Do I have to use Terminal?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Bob Patin
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> On Mar 13, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I took mine right from the php.net's examples about uploading files:
>>
>> <http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php>
>>
>> Here is their upload HTML form:
>>
>> <!-- The data encoding type, enctype, MUST be specified as below -->
>> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="__URL__" method="POST">
>>     <!-- MAX_FILE_SIZE must precede the file input field -->
>>     <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000" />
>>     <!-- Name of input element determines name in $_FILES array -->
>>     Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file" />
>>     <input type="submit" value="Send File" />
>> </form>
>>
>> The three comment lines identify the big differences in this form and 
>> more traditional html forms. Note that the MAX_FILE_SIZE value is 
>> largely ignored by the browser, so you'll need to evaluate that after 
>> the file is uploaded (file size is part of the $_FILES array... see 
>> immediately below).
>>
>> Once uploaded, PHP stores info about the file in the $_FILES array. 
>> You can find the details of the elements of $_FILES on the page 
>> linked above, but the elements for the uploaded 'userfile' above are:
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['name'] The original name of the uploaded file on 
>> the client machine.
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['type'] The mime type of the file, if the browser 
>> provided this information. An example would be "image/gif". This mime 
>> type is however not checked on the PHP side and therefore don't take 
>> its value for granted.
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['size'] The size, in bytes, of the uploaded file.
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'] The temporary filename of the file in 
>> which the uploaded file was stored on the server.
>>
>> $_FILES['userfile']['error'] The error code associated with this file 
>> upload. This element was added in PHP 4.2.0
>>
>> The uploaded file lands in a temp directory, and you use php's 
>> move_uploaded_file() to relocate it to your appropriate web 
>> directory. You can also rename it and use the values in $_FILES check 
>> for different file types and file sizes (although the mime type thing 
>> isn't bulletproof).
>>
>> Things to watch out for: file and folder permissions on the final 
>> resting place for your uploads, since the www user has pretty limited 
>> access. Also, your php.ini file probably has a upload_max_filesize 
>> set to 2MB. If the PDFs being uploade are larger than 2MB, you'll 
>> need to up this value. If you're changing upload_max_filesize, you'll 
>> need to look at post_max_size too.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have any code for writing a simple upload script in PHP? 
>>> I tried some code that I found online, but have been unable to get 
>>> it to work.
>>>
>>> I have a client who needs to put a form on their site so that 
>>> clients can upload PDF files directly into their web folder on the 
>>> web server.
>>>
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Bob Patin
>>> Longterm Solutions
>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>>> 615-333-6858
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