Component to let visitors upload files to my server
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- Franck
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Hello,
I'm searching for a simple solution to let visitors upload .txt, .doc or pdf files in my server; I don't want to restrict this function to registered users. I need a simple system for upload. Someone know something I can implement?
Thx
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- Steve Fletcher
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There's probably some custom component now, but this is what I did a couple of years ago -
create a file called uploader.html -
<html> <head> <title>File Uploader</title> </head> <body> <h3>File Upload</h3> Select file to upload:<br> <form action="uploader.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="file" size="45"> <br> <input type="submit" value="Upload File"> </form> </body> </html>
Create a menu button (wrapper) to link to the above file.
Then create another file called uploader.php -
<?php if( $_FILES['file']['name'] != "" ) { copy ( $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], "" . $_FILES['file']['name'] ) or die( "Could not copy file" ); } else { die( "No file specified" ); } ?> <html> <head> <title>Upload complete</title> </head> <body> <h3>File upload succeeded...</h3> <ul> <li>Sent: <?php echo $_FILES['file']['name']; ?></li> <li>Size: <?php echo $_FILES['file']['size']; ?> bytes</li> <li>Type: <?php echo $_FILES['file']['type']; ?></li> </ul> <a href="<?php echo $_FILES['file']['name']; ?>">Click here to view file</a> </body> </html>
Mine is restricted to specific people and seems to work OK.
I'm not sure I would want to make it available for public access
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- Franck
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Yes I know what you mean about public access but it's for this reason I want to restrict files to .txt, .doc and pdf... Do you know if it's possible with your script. Also, where I define the path where file will be uploaded?
Thx in advance
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- Steve Fletcher
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The file would be uploaded to the same directory as the scripts.
So you could just make your /upload directory (or whatever), put the scripts in it and set the menu button to link to the correct path.
You could validate the file extension in the PHP script.
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