[FX.php List] Upload script in PHP?

Dale Bengston dbengston at preservationstudio.com
Mon Mar 13 14:44:11 MST 2006


To clarify again: by default on OS X (this means using the default  
install of PHP that comes with OS X or OS X Server), there is no  
php.ini file. If you look at the results of the phpinfo() function,  
it tells you it's in /etc, but it's not there until you create it.  
The file php.ini.default is in this location, waiting for you to turn  
it into a php.ini file.

If you have installed a different PHP package, your experience will  
be different. The default OS X compile of PHP doesn't seem to put  
things where you'd expect them to be on Linux.

Dale



On Mar 13, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Steve Hannah wrote:

> The definitive way to find out where your php.ini file is located  
> is by creating a file with only
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>
> and view the file in your web browser and do a find for  
> "php.ini" .  It will show you the path to your php ini file.
>
> Steve Hannah
> On 13-Mar-06, at 12:28 PM, Tom Sepper wrote:
>
>> Depends on where you installed it. Mine is at
>> /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini although yours may not be.  Open up a
>> terminal window, ssh in (if not local), and type 'whereis php.ini'
>> without the single quotes.  That'll give you a listing.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Bob Patin
>> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 2:25 PM
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Upload script in PHP?
>>
>> Actually, I'm in Mac OS X Server, which is Apache; anyone out there
>> familiar with OS X Server who could tell me how to get to 'php.ini'
>> in the Terminal? I seem to recall editing a text file in there
>> before, but can't remember the command to do that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
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>> On Mar 13, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    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
>>>> Longterm Solutions
>>>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>>>> 615-333-6858
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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
>>>>>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>>>>>>
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