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lothar56 · Mar 25, 2006, 03:17 PM

I've looked at a ton of tutorial and stuff but I can't seem to get it to work. All I want to do is have a web page where I can browse, choose a file, then upload it to my server. It's running OS 10.4.5 with Apache 1.3 and PHP 5.1.2. The server's address is http://gossamerthree.student.iastate.edu, and the file path for uploads would be /Library/WebServer/Documents/Uploads. This is just a little server of my own to put pictures and stuff on, security is not important, but for what I'm doing with it it would be nice to have a little password or something. Can any of you gurus help me?

bluedog · Mar 27, 2006, 12:32 AM

Why does it have to be a web upload? For what you want, just enable Ftp? I can't imagine a scenario where you have a web access but not FTP unless the ftp traffic is blocked.

FTP would be dead simple, gives you basic authentication and just works.

For PHP there are some scripts around. I'll look at the code I have for uploads. Its not like you want the uploaded file to then be available for viewing on your web browser, right?

lothar56 · Mar 27, 2006, 01:46 PM

I had considered FTP, but discarded it initially because I'd like for totally non-computer literate people to use this, but really it's not hard to figure out, so I might go with that anyway. What's the best FTP server software for OS 9?
The main point of this project is to allow people to remotely change the desktop picture, so if I use an app that automatically changes the picture at a set interval and set pictures to go into a specific folder that the program reads out of, it should work fine.

SirCastor · Mar 27, 2006, 04:22 PM

What code have you tried to get to function? And what errors are you receiving when you're working on it?

lothar56 · Mar 28, 2006, 02:04 AM

I can't find the tutorials I was using earlier. None of them really had the code written out though, just randoms bits through, which made it hard to copy and paste well.

SirCastor · Mar 28, 2006, 02:52 AM

This one looks pretty good, pretty whole:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

read through all that, and put forth any questions you have.

lothar56 · Mar 30, 2006, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by SirCastor

This one looks pretty good, pretty whole:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/fileupload.php

read through all that, and put forth any questions you have.

Okay, here is my severly flawed code:
uploader.html:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>uploader.html</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploader.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>




</BODY>
</HTML>

and uploader.php

Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>

<TITLE>uploader.php</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
// Where the file is going to be placed 
$target_path = "uploads/";

/* Add the original filename to our target path. Result is "uploads/filename.extension" */
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

// This is how we will get the temporary file...
$_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'];

$target_path = "uploads/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";
} else{
    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}

?>




</BODY>
</HTML>

when i choose a picture and hit upload, safari takes me to a blank page called uploader.php and nothing else happens. I know there are horrid errors there, let me know what they are!

SirCastor · Mar 31, 2006, 05:22 AM

Your code worked flawlessly for me. Here's two things:

1) Make sure that the uploads directory exists, and that it has permissions set properly to be written to by the web server (in the case of OS X, it's user 'www')

2) If you're still running into difficulties, turn on error displaying in PHP on the server. It's immensly useful when you're trying to figure out what's going on.

I'd be willing to bet it's a permissions issue over anything else.
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