26170members to upload fileshttp://www.purephotoshop.com/article/50Well, tired of FTP'n everything up to your site? Or even want to allow other members to upload files but you dont' want to give them FTP access? Well lets create a file upload system that will take care of all your uploading woes. THis also employs some minimal security checks.
As of PHP 4.1 uploaded files can be accessed via the $_FILES superglobal, but in earlier versions you can use $HTTP_POST_FILES array and the last option but not recommended will be to use the $upload that corresoponds to the name of the file input. Note: You can only use the last method if register_globals is enabled.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > File ManipulationOct 15, 2006Purephotoshop
include() is probally one of the most commonly used PHP functions, it allows you to display the content of a file within another page with just one simple line.
There's probally many things you could make use of php includes for, the most common being a template based website where you'll have a number of content pages but only one or two pages with the code for the main layout which is then included into the content pages.
We've mostly focused on MySQL-type tutorials, but we'll show you in this tutorial the basics of file handling. This includes opening a directory and listing the files, opening a file and showing it's contents and opening, then modifying a file. Deleting a file too!
This article contains:
1. Introduction to compression with PHP.. extending PHP with extensions.
2. Using ZIP
3. Using gZip
4. Using bZip2 and LZF
5. Using 'File_Archive' PEAR package
Well, tired of FTP'n everything up to your site? Or even want to allow other members to upload files but you dont' want to give them FTP access? Well lets create a file upload system that will take care of all your uploading woes. THis also employs some minimal security checks.
As of PHP 4.1 uploaded files can be accessed via the $_FILES superglobal, but in earlier versions you can use $HTTP_POST_FILES array and the last option but not recommended will be to use the $upload that corresoponds to the name of the file input. Note: You can only use the last method if register_globals is enabled.
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