[SOLVED] Getting full path while using the input type is file in HTML

vijaysince89 · 11-29-2010, 02:50 AM

Hello everyone,
Below is my code.
<html>
<body>

<form action="compress.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Filename:</label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file" />
<br />

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

How to get the full path? I've used $_FILE["file"]["name"] but it returns only the file name. not its full directory.
Any Idea?

Regards,
Vijay

eSelix · 11-29-2010, 04:03 AM

If you want to get full path of the file on the client system it is impossible. Maybe with Adobe Flash.

vijaysince89 · 11-29-2010, 08:59 AM

Then why they have unnecessarily provided this option to us? If we can not get the full path it is not possible to open the file that we have included in that directory, right? if I try to open the file using fopen() it says that the file is not found in the default directory. If we place the file in the default directory it works. Then How can we upload a file in other directory which is not default directory? Please help me. I think you can understand what I'm trying to say.

eSelix · 11-29-2010, 05:06 PM

There are two paths on two different computers. First is on the client machine. On the server you can't known his local system path, web browser doesn't send this information to the server, for security purposes.

The second is path to file on server after web browser uploaded it. You should use function move_uploaded_file() with directory, where you want this file to be stored. Before that the file is temporary saved in directory specified in php config file under directive "upload_tmp_dir".

More info in PHP manual.

rikijpn · 11-29-2010, 06:08 PM

There's a previous thread that might interest you.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...in-php-321798/

vijaysince89 · 11-29-2010, 08:33 PM

Thank you both.