PHP Upload - Unable to determine path of browsed directory

pizzipie · 08-13-2016, 01:12 PM

I am uploading image files using PHP script.

The first thing you see is the FORM with the BROWSER button.

Pressing this button enables you to pick any directory on your computer to choose files from.

Although you do not need to know where these image files come from to upload them, I need to know the directory and path information so I can pass that on to another PHP script which pre-pends the exif timestamp to the filename of the image.

The $_FILES structure doesn't have that information.

astrogeek · 08-13-2016, 01:52 PM

You can't get the path passed with the file.

The HTML file element, the browse button, is specifically designed to prevent passing the path information because that represents a security leak.

pizzipie · 08-13-2016, 03:00 PM

SOLVED:

Thanks, that's disappointing, guess I'll just have to enter that manually.

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NevemTeve · 08-14-2016, 12:39 AM

> pre-pends the exif timestamp to the filename of the image.

You can rename file '/home/tedd/photos/sunset.jpg' to '/home/tedd/photos/20160807_sunset.jpg' without knowing the path on the remote computer (eg C:\PICS\HAWAII\AUGUST\2016\)