PHP :: How To Find Full Path Of A File Upload Field In A Form?

Displaying File Path In File Input Field
i have file input field in a form like this:
<input name="isbn" type="text" size="25" value="<?php echo
$_POST['isbn'] ?>" />
<input name="image" type="file" size="25" value="<?php echo
$_FILES['image']['name'] ?>" />

when i press "submit" button, the same page gets loaded... if my
$_POST['isbn'] is empty, i want to have the file path on "file input
field" to redisplay on that same field... it's possible in text input
field but i don't know of a way to do it in file input fields...

Getting Full Path
I am able to get the folder name of where a file is in eg /folder/ but I don't knwo how to get the full folder path like:

www.example.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/

I know how to get the file and the example.com but not to list all the folders, how can I do this.

Cannot Include() Without Full Path
I'm trying to use include, but I can only use this by giving the full path on my linux system, I presume this is to do with my configuration. I have an include_path, but this seems to make no difference.

Store Upload File Path (Database)
I have come up with the following code, that uploads gif images to the server. How do I allow only MP3 files to be uploaded, and also store the path of the image in a database? Code:

Where To Find File Upload Tmp_name On Server?
Can someone tell me where to find tmp_name on my server; the place where temporary file uploads are stored?

Full Local Path Of $_FILES
When processing a standard file upload form, is it possible to save the full local path of the file? If there is an arror on the form, I want to re-display the file name in the field when it reloads. This data doesn't seem to get posted. All the local path info is stripped off.

I Have Sub-categories But Want To Display Full Category Path
Let's say I have a simple web application running with just two MySQL
tables. The tables structure is as follows:

Table: category
category_id (PK)
category_name
parent_category (FK) //references category_id in this table

Table: link
link_id (PK)
link_name
link_description
category_id (FK) //references category_id in category table

Here is the data in the category table
1, England, 0
2, West Yorkshire, 1
3, Batley, 2
4, Leeds, 2
5, Bradford, 2

As you can see Batley, Leeds and Bradford are sub-categories of West
Yorkshire which itself is a sub-category of England.

What I want to display when I am browsing through sub-categories of links is
not only the name of that sub-category but it's category's parents, grand
parents and so on like the below example.

UK >West Yorkshire >Batley

I see this on a lot of directory sites but none of my PHP books cover how
this is done. Must be quite simple so can someone please point me in the
right direction. Hope I've explained it well enough, haven't a clue what
this process is called.

Suppressing Full Path Dump On Interpreter Warnings?
I read somewhere that showing the full path during an error dump is a "bad
thing":

/dir1/dir2/somedir/script_that_died.php

Like during a parse error or a warning from the interpreter. How can I tell
the PHP interpreter to show only the script filename and if possible, one or
two directories above?

Use Image Name (full Path) Read From Database In Javascript
I am using following scipt for javascript slide show. I want to replace the image names with the one I read using PHP+MYSQL database (conditional SQL statement ) Code:

Getting The File Path From A Html Form Input
I want to get the file path from a file input field, not just the filename. I don't have to necesarily use the input of type 'file', but that is the only way i know how to have a browse button.I tried using javascript to fetch the content of the file with this function:

function GetDirectory(){
   strFile = document.FileForm.filename.value;
   intPos = strFile.lastIndexOf("");
   strDirectory = strFile.substring(0, intPos);
   alert(strDirectory);}

but i don't know how to pass the javascript variable to the php.

File Form - Keep Local Path Info On Reload
Is there a way to retain the local path info for a file form when the page reloads?

How Do You Find The Path To The Php Executable?
I am not able to find where the PHP executable is located on a shared
hosting platform used for one of the sites here at work, and Tech
Support appears to either not know or not want us to know where it's
found. This is for a required CLI PHP script that has been running on a
dedicated host for some time that they decided to move to a shared
hosting service.

How Do I Figure Out The "full Path" To My Directory
I'm running a script at the moment that requires the full path to my directory.

How do I figure this out?

File Upload Limit Using Php Form, Can I Use FTP Somehow From Form?
My host has a 2MB limit on file uploads and can't change it but they do not
have a limit on ftp files uploads. Is there a way to use ftp from the form
to upload a file?

Show Stored Value For Form Field Type=file
I have a file-uploading form to uploads a .jpg file and stores its name in a table in my db as co_bannerfile. I'm trying to now write an update form so the user can update their .jpg file. I've successfully written a query to retrieve the stored file's name.

How can I display the stored file's name so the user can see its name within the input TYPE="file" field and then decide to update it or not? The following doesn't display the stored file name. What do I have wrong? Code:

How To Find A Match In A Text Field ?
i am using ereg($rowvalue[0],'humor2')==true to find a match in the text field. how can i find a exact match, ie. the text field contains 'humor,humor2'

so, if using ereg the result will be true for both humor and humor2 but only 1 - humor2 is correct. how do i find an exact match ?

A Way To Find Out If A Field In A Tabel Exists?
I was wondering what's the easiest way to find out if a specified field in a table exists or not?

Find Highest Number In Field
I need to look up 30 entries from a given number in a mysql query, the catch is, if it hits 1 I need it to jump to the highest number in the database, or if it hits the highest number then it goes to 1... I'm using a while loop to display the information... any ideas? btw, I'm making a quiz, and pulling questions out of a database by an id that auto increments...

File Upload Using A Form
Can someone explain how file uploading & modification works step by
step, using an html form ?

I need to create a website, which receives images (jpg, gif) using an
html form, and then run a php script to modify those images (size and
format).

File Upload Php Form
I currently have a database that allows users to add, remove and amend data within it through a php form. I now would like to move on and add standard data including pdfs that users can select add oo and amend their data against. I think I need to use a file upload form and a php script to handle the data but I am not sure how I get tis information into and out of my mysql database?

Form With File Upload Problems..
I have been working on a script to put information into a mysql database and upload a file. The user enters informaiton into a form, which passes this to a second page for processing.... Some reason the file information is not entered into the database and is not uploaded... The variable doesn't seem to be passed to the next page? PHP Code:

Re Basic File Upload Form
I would like to create a very basic file upload add image form to add
to my web site and to keep them in a "tmp" directory within my web
hosting file manager once uploaded.
I understand the basic html for the form and the basic php scripting
but the fine details ie method post etc needs help also at this stage
I dont want to involve mysql data base. were should I start.

Multiple File Upload With Out Form
From my remote websites admin system, I would like to be able to select a folder on the local computer and upload every file in the selected folder up to the remote site. I don't want to use form file uploads. I want the user to be able to nominate a local folder and the whole folder is copied with one click of a button. Is this possible to do with out putting the user through any complexx procedures.

Form "file" Field, Browse For Certain File Types.
I know I can't control the default browse when the user clicks browse next to a form file field. I.E *.pdf, *.jpg. Its just *.* - and I remember its something to do with security....but I cant remember the reasoning.

File Upload From A Form / Upload_tmp_dir Query
I want to allow file uploads to the server without exposing the
non-technical end-users to FTP settings, file naming protocols, etc. I've
found the following from http://www.zend.com/manual/features.file-upload.php
....

HTML FILE (uploadtest.html)

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploadtest.asp" method="POST">
Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Send File">
</form>

PHP FILE (uploadtest.php)

<?php
// In PHP earlier then 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead of
// $_FILES. In PHP earlier then 4.0.3, use copy() and is_uploaded_file()
// instead of move_uploaded_file
$uploaddir = '/var/www/uploads/'
$uploadfile = $uploaddir. $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

print "<pre>";
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
print "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded. ";
print "Here's some more debugging info:";
print_r($_FILES);
} else {
print "Possible file upload attack! Here's some debugging info:";
print_r($_FILES);
}
print "</pre>";
?>

END OF CODE

I select a file to upload and the delay in submitting the form suggests that
the file has been sent. But I always get the "possible file upload attack"
result. The file info shows the correct filename and type but the filesize
is always .. and the 'tmp_name' is always 'none'.

Assuming this was the problem I did some digging using phpinfo(). The
version is 4.1.2 so I seem to be using the right commands as per the
instructions with the code. But the 'upload_tmp_dir' variable is NOT SET
which I think might be the problem.

So, with apologies for taking so long to get here, I have two queries...

1) Is there anything wrong with the code I'm using?

2) Where do uploaded files go if 'upload_tmp_dir' is not set and how can I
bypass this without access to the server (shared hosting)

Form Attachment Script Doesn't Upload File
Can anyone help me with this form mail with image attachment script?It doesn't upload the file although it still sends the mail to the reciver's email address. PHP Code:

Ftp Form-could I Add A Progress Bar Or Stat Bar For The File Upload?
I was wondering could i add a progress bar or stat bar for the file upload to this code below? Code:

Flash / PHP File Upload (w/out Standard HTML Form)
- i am trying to create an upload form based on a flash mx movie and a server-side php script.
- i have to avoid using the standard HTML upload form.
- local filesystem browsing function is not needed, only the given file must be transferred.
- the problem is that the php script cannot acces a local file like "c:/dir/file.ext", as the path is handled like a server-side path.
- the HTML form (enctype has to be set multipart/form-data) sends the file via the POST method. Flash is able to send information this way, too, but only files with internally specified variables like "&var=data" can be read into the flash movie - and sent as text.
- i am thinking of using a hidden form somewhere - maybe in another frame of the site (in the first one is the flash movie embedded). Another way to solve this could be a popup window with the upload form. These might work, but i am searching for a less complex solution.

Restricting Non Image Files From File Upload Form?
I have a file upload form on my site, but I want it so that the user can only select gif, jpg, etc. How do I do this?

Full HTML Form Textbox Editor
I was wondering if there is a such thing that lets users input text into a html form input box, but when they start a new line or something, it inputs "<p>" when is outputed to php. So that the text that they inputed will look exactly the same on a php's output. Its sort of like this forum's way of inputting text.

Upload And Resize Pictures With Path In Database
First I've must say Im completly new in php scripting

What I need to do is upload, resize pictures with path in database

Here is theory of it, and plan of doing it

Hope somebody can help me

here are 4 sizes of images:

- newimagename1_1 with size W=100 and H=67

- newimagename2_2, newimagename3_3, newimagename4_4, newimagename5_5,
newimagename6_6 with size W=308, H=208

- newimagename1 size W=308, H=208

- newimagename2, newimagename3, newimagename4, newimagename5, newimagename6
size W=500 and H=375

Code should go in this order:

- check if folder with name "ID_of_user" exists

- if it exists than upload images to it, if it doesn't then create it and
upload images

- array (image1, image2, image3, image4, image5, image6)

- foreach(array)

- if size of images are biger than W=500 and H=375 than resize them to W=500
and H=375m, if are not leave them as they are

- copy (resized) images to same users folder with name "newimagename.jpg"

- array (newimagename2, newimagename3, newimagename4, newimagename5,
newimagename6)

- for (newimagename1)

- resize newimagename1 to W=308, H=208

- copy newimagename1 to same users folder with new name
"newimagename1_1.jpg"

- resize "newimagename1_1.jpg" to W=100 and H=67

- foreach(array)

- resize array to W=150 and H=100 and copy them resized to same user folder
with name

"newimagename2_2, newimagename3_3, newimagename4_4, newimagename5_5,
newimagename6_6"

- conect to database

- insert into database path of images (image1, image2, image3, image4,
image5, image6, image7)

values (newimagename1_1, newimagename2_2, newimagename3_3, newimagename4_4,
newimagename5_5, newimagename6_6)

- Delete (image1, image2, image3, image4, image5, image6)

- Display images (newimagename1, newimagename2_2, newimagename3_3,
newimagename4_4, newimagename5_5, newimagename6_6)

with link to biger images (newimagename1, newimagename2, newimagename3,
newimagename4, newimagename5, newimagename6)

- Display image newimagename1_1

Finding Users H: Drive Path For Upload
Im currently creating a Intranet site where I want to allow users to upload files to the server from any machine. However so far I have encountered problems.

I have been able to get it working by either getting the users to copy the files into a temp folder on the server before the script runs so the files are local or I can replace a drive letter in the path with an absolute path, however I now want to allow upload from any users H: drive. We are running Apache/PHP/MySQL on Netware 6.

I want to be able to either find the users username and context or thier H: drive path, so I can replace H: in the path in the srcipt to a full path. This will allow the script to find the file on the network.

Full Text File Search With Indexing Service On Windows
Here's a short tutorial on how to the OLE-DB extension to access
Windows Indexing Service. Impress your office-mates with a powerful
full-text search feature on your intranet. It's easier than you think.

First, download and install the extension
(http://sourceforge.net/project/show...kage_id=198554).
Simply unzip the file and copy the correct version of php_oledb.dll
into the PHP extensions folder. Then add the line
extension=php_oledb.dll in php.ini and restart your web server.

Now, if Indexing Service isn't running on your computer, turn it on. Go
to Control Panel Administrative Tools Services and configure
Indexing Service to start automatically. You can also ask the little
dog in the search window to do it for you if you're using Windows XP.
You will need to wait a while for Windows to build the initial index.
It could take a couple hours.

Once the extension is installed and the index is ready, you can start
coding. To connect to Indexing Service, you use the oledb_open
function:

$link = oledb_open("Provider=MSIDXS");

You then call oledb_query with a SQL statement. Let us start with
something simple: We'll look for all files on the computer containing
the word "love": .....

File Upload Issue - Unable To Upload A Large File
I am using PHP Version 4.4.3 under Linux/Apachie to upload files.
The PHP.ini upload_max_filesize is 2M, which I need to override this
in the HTML (see below). I changed the MAX_FILE_SIZE to 4,000,000
but the system only accepts files less than 2M.

Is the override wrong, do I need to raise the limit in the PHP.ini
file, or is the Apachie issue.

<form name="upload" action="admin.php" method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="4000000">

Add Form Field Values Into Php Seesion Variable Before Submitting The Form
I have php page which is basically a simple html form containing some text fields.The user will type in values in it and submit it .Now what i want is that just at the time of submittion i want to assign the form field values in session variables.

I nwwd this b'coz the form is being submitted into a cgi script which has been given to me.Now the cgi script is an executable one and i am unable to view or change its content,Its functionability is to change a password for a linux user account .Now the cgi script after completing the job is redirected to another html page.What i have to do is that i need to trap the user input and update the values in a mysql database .Now if i can assign the values in a session variable then i can do the updatation from some later pages.

How Can I Find Out Parent (including) File Of Included File?
How can i find out parent (including) file of included file?
Lets imagine that we want to for example auto_prepend file to each file on our server that would write out the name of file its being executed. I know, i can use PHP_SELF but what if i want to write name of file which is already included?

I have a web page and i want on it show its name even if it was included, but not the included page itself is showing name but auto_prepend file to each php file, its duty of this auto_prepend_file to write it out i dont want myself to echo it on each page? do you feel me?

Find Form Variables
Is there a way to read the variable names passed by a form if you dont know their names.
I have a site where the users can edit a form but I need to then process it.

Upload File Having Browse Button And Submit Button On Same Form
I am building a form where the user must upload a picture and fill in his
details.
Now I have a problem as all of this is on the same form.

How will I be able to have the Browse button to open the "file browse"
dialog
and the Submit button to submit the form data.

As I believe you can not use GET but must use POST method for form.
Is there any means that I can use GET cause I need to get form variables
from URL as well.

Upload Form And Upload Script On Same Page
On many upload pages, the FORM action is set to the same page-that means the script to generate the page and save the uploaded files is same.Can somebody give me some simple example of how to do this ?

How to detect if somebody is accessing a page( == generate the form) or uploading the files ( == upload the files) ?

Get Php File Name WITHOUT Path
I have a page in Apache with a path like "localhost/projects/main.php" and I need to retrieve only "main.php", or whatever the current PHP page name is.

Anyone would think that some of these methods should return the file name:

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

But *ALL* of those methods return "projects/main.php"... d'oh! How can I retrieve the file name ONLY, without path?

URL From File Path Name
I know there must be a function somewhere for converting a local file
path name to the url path (i.e. /user/apache/htdocs/myDir/myFile.jpg
to /myDir/myFile.jpg) but I can't find it! Can someone tell me what
it is?

File Path
I was trying to use the ftp_put command. It worked for the files in the
same directory as my php file, but if I try to fetch a file somewhere else
on the server with the following syntax for the source file it doesn't work.

"serverdirectory_pathfilename"

also it didn't work with

"//server/directory_path/filename"

What is the correct way to access the file?

Get A File Name From A Path
Yes, this is almost like PARSE_URL, but no this is not what I want to do.

Simplest way to explain it is by example.

I want to turn this:

./`admin/plugins/top/*.php

Into this:

*

I want to get the name of the script IN the file. The files PATH, is not going to be /`admin/plugins/top/.
The paths will be ./`admin/plugins/* (top | middle | bottom).

How would I convert these names?

File Which Tries To Find Itself And Can't...
<?
//file test.php
phpinfo();

$filename = "test.php";//it does not work

$filename =
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/home/ke000067/public_html/test.php"; //it
does not work

$filename =
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/~ke000067/public_html/test.php"; //it
does not work

$filename = "home/ke000067/public_html/test.php"; //it does not
work

echo 'fila buscada: '.$filename.'<br>'

if (file_exists($filename)) {
echo 'Of course it is.<br>'
}else{
echo 'What?? How can it be???.<br>'
}

?>

these are some values retieved from phpinfo
_ENV["REMOTE_PORT"]2010
_ENV["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]/home/ke000067/public_html/test.php
_ENV["SCRIPT_URI"]http://200.50.110.233/~ke000067/test.php
_ENV["SCRIPT_URL"]/~ke000067/test.php
_ENV["SERVER_ADDR"]200.50.110.233
_ENV["SERVER_NAME"]200.50.110.233
_ENV["SERVER_PORT"]80
_ENV["SERVER_SIGNATURE"]<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.33 Server at
200.58.112.233 Port 80</ADDRESS>
_ENV["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8
mod_bwlimited/1.4 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
_ENV["GATEWAY_INTERFACE"]CGI/1.1
_ENV["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]HTTP/1.1
_ENV["REQUEST_METHOD"]GET
_ENV["REQUEST_URI"]/~ke000067/test.php
_ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"]/~ke000067/test.php
_ENV["PATH_TRANSLATED"]/home/ke000067/public_html/test.php

I'm really confused about paths. Now I think that it is not a good idea
to learn on local server, beacause whenever one changes to a shared
one, all seems to fail....

Extracting The File Name From A Path?
I want to remove all from before the file name including the slash.

$filename = "some/path/to/filename.txt";

or

$filename = "some/other/path/to/filename.txt";

Is there a way to remove words that end with a slash?

$filename[0] = preg_replace('/.*/','',"$filename[0]");

--with-config-file-path
I want php.ini in my own place, say /etc not default /usr/local/bin.
So when I configure I use --with-config-file-path=/etc .... Easy !?
It dose not work, well it configure, make and make install ok but still
looking for php.ini in /usr/local/bin.

A script with phpinfo() tells me it looks in /etc but it still php.ini from
/usr/local/bin.

Using: Slackware 10.1, Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4