26173Uploading files in PHP - Introductionhttp://www.developerfusion.com/show/2892/show.aspxFiles are uploaded from the browser using an tag, with the type parameter in the tag set to "File". This is supported by all popular browsers currently available on the market. The important thing is to set the ENCTYPE attribute of the form to "multipart/form-data" and set the form's action element to the file upload page. The file upload page will handle the file uploading.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > File ManipulationOct 15, 2006
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.
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:
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 example browses a directory to list files and rename all files except the ones we do not want to list (as 'Thumbs.db' on windows or '..' and '.' which are not files as well as a directory itself).
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