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Status: Closed Points: 75 Time: 14:10 - Feb 02, 2009

david

how do I upload and save a file with php?

Hi,

I need to let a user upload a file and then save it in a specific location on the server. I'm using PHP and I'm not sure how to do this.

Hope you can help.

David

Categories:

PHP Websites
file upload

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Tutorials

shashi.programmer

Date:: Feb 03, 2009

Time:: 01:28

Below is full file you can copy and paste and try it and one more thing create "uploaded" folder in the same directory where you want to upload the file:....
<?php
if(isset($_POST['sub']))
{
$target_path = "./uploaded/";
$target_path = $target_path.basename($_FILES['files']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['files']['tmp_name'], $target_path))
{
$file_name=$_FILES['files']['name'];
echo $file_name." has been uploaded.";
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-t...
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="addcom" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr>

<td>Files</td>

<td><input name="files" type="file" id="files" /></td>
</tr>
     <tr>

<td align="center"> </td>

<td>
     <input type="hidden" name="sub" />
     <input name="submit" type="submit" class="maintext" value="Submit">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

david

Date:: Feb 03, 2009

Time:: 02:03

Thanks shashi, that works perfect.

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shashi.programmer

Date:: Sep 03, 2009

Time:: 04:09

<?php
/***********************************************
* Snippet Name : File Uploader *
* Scripted By : Shashidhar Kumar *
* Website : http://www.shashionline.in *
* Email : shashi@shashionline.in *
* License : GPL (General Public License) *
***********************************************/

if(isset($_POST['sub']))
{
$target_path = "./uploaded/";
$target_path = $target_path.basename($_FILES['files']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['files']['tmp_name'], $target_path))
{
$file_name=$_FILES['files']['name'];
echo $file_name." has been uploaded.";
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-t...
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>File Upload</title>
</head>

<body>
<form name="addcom" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr>

<td>Files</td>

<td><input name="files" type="file" id="files" /></td>
</tr>
     <tr>

<td align="center"> </td>

<td>
     <input type="hidden" name="sub" />
     <input name="submit" type="submit" class="maintext" value="Submit">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>