See my post today about a file upload problem, which includes a complete script to do this (and more). My script works, but times out on very large files, otherwise it is a champ...
Fred On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 15:16:09 -0500, Jim wrote: > http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php > > I've done this successfully both with PHP and VB/ASP. I think PHP is the > easiest, but there are several things that could go wrong. > > There is usually a 2MB limit to the file size and the safe mode setting > also affects the outcome. > > On the HTML side, you must include ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data in your > <form> tag. > > Once the file is uploaded (you can verify through phpinfo() command) you > have to move it someplace. This can be tricky depending on how your > server is set up. As a security, some servers do not allow scripts to > save files. > > One solution is to have your script open an ftp socket and put the file > in the right place. This way, the script has the ftp password which > should be kept secret from the user. > > >>Hello, >> >>I have a VB program which can download files from a web-site. The >>webserver is running Apache where we use PHP scripting. That is all >>working OK. >> >>Now I want to let certain people upload data from their PC's. I don't >>want to use FTP, because I don't want to hand out password's (also not >>in the code we are distributing). Anonymous FTP is not possible. >> >>I can upload files to the site from a browser, but I would to make it >>(very) easy for people to upload their data: a number of them are not >>very familiar with computers. >> >>I have seen (www.google.com) references to uploading from VB to IIS >>servers, but how about to Apache/PHP? I've tried some examples with the >>MicroSoft Internet Control and "executing" the POST command, but the >>file would not be uploaded (the PHP script did not get it anyway). >> >>Should it be possible? >>If so, can somebody point in the right direction/example? If not, could >>somebody please explain why not? >> >>Thanks in advance for your help, >> >>henk sandkuyl >> >> >>-- >>PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, >>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
