PHP - upload program won't run action "upload.php" script

pizzipie · 08-01-2016, 03:13 PM

HI,

I have not tried file uploading before and can't seem to get it to work the way I want it to. The end result I want is to select a group of photos and upload them to "upload.php" where they will be renamed and stored to another directory.

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<!--PHP 5 File Upload


With PHP, it is easy to upload files to the server.

However, with ease comes danger, so always be careful when allowing file uploads!
Configure The "php.ini" File

First, ensure that PHP is configured to allow file uploads.

In your "php.ini" file, search for the file_uploads directive, and set it to On:
file_uploads = On  ... This I have done.

Create The HTML Form

Next, create an HTML form that allow users to choose the image file they want to upload:
-->

<html>
<body>

<form action="/home/rick/Desktop/PHP.HTML/upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    Select image(s) to upload:
    <input type="file" name="myFiles[]" multiple="">
    <input type="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

When I run this "fileUpload.html" script A window opens offering me to open the php script with some application or to save the file. I want my php script to run.

I apparently don't understand something basic here.

Thanks for any help to fix this,

R

24x7servermanagement · 08-01-2016, 07:57 PM

You will need to check your .htaccess and make sure that correct Apache handler is added.

If there is any handler added then remove it first and then try again. Depends on your PHP version the handler needs to be added/modified.

astrogeek · 08-01-2016, 08:13 PM

It doesn't work like that. And adding an apache handler will not work if you are not using apache to access the file!

You are trying to open the file (/home/rick/Desktop/PHP.HTML) on your local machine. There is no web server or php handler in play so it will only ever see it as "a file" and never execute the PHP "as code" in the file.

You must have a web server running and configured to hand off the mime-type (html) to the php interpreter. And you must access the file via the web server, not the filesystem.

Once that happens you will still need more PHP code to receive the submitted form, process and move the submitted files into some permanent location. But that also asks the question, "Why upload files from your local system to your local system?". That is probably not what you actually have in mind.

Apparently you do indeed not understand how PHP and web servers work together.

It would be very helpful to others if you could provide bit more information on your system and what you are trying to accomplish.

pizzipie · 08-01-2016, 09:51 PM

Maybe I don't need to use "upload" at all?

Here is what I want to do.

1. Let user browse file system to select a directory or group of files.
2. Send the directory or files to my script "transferImages.php".
3. This script reads the EXIF information for each file and calculates a 'timestamp' for the
file.
4. The 'timestamp' is then pre-pended to the file name and the file transferred to a the final folder.

Any ideas or solutions welcome.

R