PHP Basics

[Saravana]

Hi all,

I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.

I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.

Kindly bring me your ideas.

Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR

[Erwin Moller]

Saravana wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.

I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.

Kindly bring me your ideas.

Hi,

The HTML part for fileuploads is easy (assuming you know HTML)
Google for file upload, follow first link:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html

for an introduction.

About saving the file path: forget it.
Fileuploads only send the file(s) to the server, NOT the path where they
reside on the clientmachine.
Even Javascript will not help you with this: It is also crippled on
purpose when it come to real paths and files.

Reason?
It is none of the server's business where the original file is on the
client.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR

[Rob]

On Jan 9, 10:34*am, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spam yourself.comwrote:

Saravana wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.

I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.

Kindly bring me your ideas.

Hi,

The HTML part for fileuploads is easy (assuming you know HTML)
Google for file upload, follow first link:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html

for an introduction.

About saving the file path: forget it.
Fileuploads only send the file(s) to the server, NOT the path where they
reside on the clientmachine.
Even Javascript will not help you with this: It is also crippled on
purpose when it come to real paths and files.

Reason?
It is none of the server's business where the original file is on the
client.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR- Hide quoted text -

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Erwin - that's not strictly true.

JavaScript could be used to store the original location of the file,
like this :-

<form method="POST" name=form1>
<input type=file onChange="alert(this.value)">
</form>

Having said that, I can't think why you would want the original
location. I think Saravana is actually asking how to store the name/
path of the file on the server, so it can be retreived.

Is that right?

Rob.

[Erwin Moller]

Rob wrote:

On Jan 9, 10:34 am, Erwin Moller
<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spam yourself.comwrote:

>Saravana wrote:

>>Hi all,
I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.
I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.
Kindly bring me your ideas.

Hi,

The HTML part for fileuploads is easy (assuming you know HTML)
Google for file upload, follow first link:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html

for an introduction.

About saving the file path: forget it.
Fileuploads only send the file(s) to the server, NOT the path where they
reside on the clientmachine.
Even Javascript will not help you with this: It is also crippled on
purpose when it come to real paths and files.

Reason?
It is none of the server's business where the original file is on the
client.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>>Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Erwin - that's not strictly true.

JavaScript could be used to store the original location of the file,
like this :-

<form method="POST" name=form1>
<input type=file onChange="alert(this.value)">
</form>

Hi,

You are right.
I stand corrected. :-)

It is NOT possible to modify the value(s) with JavaScript, but it is
possible to read.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

>
Having said that, I can't think why you would want the original
location. I think Saravana is actually asking how to store the name/
path of the file on the server, so it can be retreived.

Is that right?

Rob.

[Saravana]

On Jan 9, 8:05 pm, Rob <[e-mail]:

On Jan 9, 10:34 am, Erwin Moller

<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spam yourself.comwrote:

Saravana wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.

I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.

Kindly bring me your ideas.

Hi,

The HTML part for fileuploads is easy (assuming you know HTML)
Google for file upload, follow first link:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html

for an introduction.

About saving the file path: forget it.
Fileuploads only send the file(s) to the server, NOT the path where they
reside on the clientmachine.
Even Javascript will not help you with this: It is also crippled on
purpose when it come to real paths and files.

Reason?
It is none of the server's business where the original file is on the
client.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Erwin - that's not strictly true.

JavaScript could be used to store the original location of the file,
like this :-

<form method="POST" name=form1>
<input type=file onChange="alert(this.value)">
</form>

Having said that, I can't think why you would want the original
location. I think Saravana is actually asking how to store the name/
path of the file on the server, so it can be retreived.

Is that right?

Rob.

Hi Rob,

You are exactly correct.

Thanks for the help.

[Rob]

On Jan 10, 5:58*am, Saravana <[e-mail]:

On Jan 9, 8:05 pm, Rob <[e-mail]:

On Jan 9, 10:34 am, Erwin Moller

<Since_humans_read_this_I_am_spammed_too_m...@spam yourself.comwrote:

Saravana wrote:
Hi all,

I am new to this group and I am new to PHP too.

I want to create a php page with a file browse button and I have to
add the file path in Mysql table after submit.

Kindly bring me your ideas.

Hi,

The HTML part for fileuploads is easy (assuming you know HTML)
Google for file upload, follow first link:http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html

for an introduction.

About saving the file path: forget it.
Fileuploads only send the file(s) to the server, NOT the path where they
reside on the clientmachine.
Even Javascript will not help you with this: It is also crippled on
purpose when it come to real paths and files.

Reason?
It is none of the server's business where the original file is on the
client.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Thanks,
S.SARAVANAKUMAR- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Erwin - that's not strictly true.

JavaScript could be used to store the original location of the file,
like this :-

<form method="POST" name=form1>
* <input type=file onChange="alert(this.value)">
</form>

Having said that, I can't think why you would want the original
location. I think Saravana is actually asking how to store the name/
path of the file on the server, so it can be retreived.

Is that right?

Rob.

Hi Rob,

You are exactly correct.

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OK, then you need to do this in 3 steps. I'll give you pointers to
what you need to do, but you'll need to write that exact code your
self.

The first step is to present an upload form, fairly simple.

The second step is to process the file upload using PHP. There's an
exacmple of both of these steps at http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php.

Once the file has been uploaded and you have the name and location of
it from the first part of your upload script, then you can write that
into your database using mysql_query() - http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-query.php

Please have a go at writing the code, but if you get stuck, then come
back to us.

Robert.