In spite of security issues that should be addressed before enabling file uploads, the actual mechanisms to allow this are straight forward. In this tutorial we will consider how to upload files to some directory on your Web server. We will also discuss security issues concerned with the file uploading.
This tutorial explains the basics of uploading images or files to your server using a HTML form and the PHP function copy. I haven't explained form validation or file checking - I'll go into further detail on that in future tutorials. To kick things off, you'll need a HTML form:
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