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photo uploads

beermatt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:01:43 GMT

Hi, I would like to create a simple way for people to send me photos via a webpage. I have tried a script which I have placed in my cgi-bin called upload.pl

1 #!/usr/bin/perl

2 use CGI;

3 my $cgi = new CGI;

4 my $dir = $cgi->param('dir');

5 my $file = $cgi->param('file');

6 $file=~m/^.*(\\|\/)(.*)/; # strip the remote path and keep the filename

7 my $name = $2;

8 open(LOCAL, ">$dir/$name") or die $!;

9 while(<$file>) {

10 print LOCAL $_;

11 }

12 print $cgi->header();

13 print "$file has been successfully uploaded... thank you.\n";

The page in question is at www.beermattonline.co.uk/pink/contact_pets.html

It doesn't seem to work. Would anyone be able to help me out?

Thanks in advance, Matt.

Re: photo uploads

dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:28:23 GMT

Here is a php version that is known to work. Save this as uploader.php or something similar and point your form action to this:

Change the target path to wherever you want the files to save to.

<?php 
$target = "/services/webpages/b/e/beermattonline.co.uk/public/uploads/"; 
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ; 
$ok=1; 
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target)) 
{
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";
} 
else {
echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";
}
?>

Re: photo uploads

beermatt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:58:43 GMT

Hi Dave. Thanks for your help. That still doesn't seem to work. Here is what I have on my page followed by the php version... I have changed the permission for the php file to 755. Any other suggestions?

Thanks again, Matt.

please select a file to upload </p>

<p>

</FORM>

"<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="/cgi-bin/uploader.php" METHOD="POST"><p class="contact">please select a file to upload </p><INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="file"><p><INPUT TYPE="submit"></FORM>"

<?php

$target = "/services/webpages/b/e/beermattonline.co.uk/public/pink/pet_photos/";

$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ;

$ok=1;

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target))

{

echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";

}

else {

echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";

}

<?php $target = "/services/webpages/b/e/beermattonline.co.uk/public/pink/pet_photos/"; $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ; $ok=1; if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target)) {echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";} else {echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";}?>

Re: photo uploads

dave — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:48:54 GMT

Check that the target path is correct... save the following to a file, upload it to your target directory and open it in a browser. This will show the correct path name for that directory (it may be /webpages2 rather than /webpages)

<?php
echo dirname(__FILE__);
?>

I think you also need to change the following line on your form:

<INPUT TYPE="FILE" NAME="file">

to:

<input name="uploaded" type="file">

If it is still failing, try running the uploader.php from a normal directory rather than from cgi-bin.

Re: photo uploads

beermatt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:20:58 GMT

Many thanks. That seems to work. For reference I am not sure if all three steps were necessary but moving the uploader.php file to the root folder did the trick. I am going to look for a way to include an email address with the uploaded file and to give the visitor a way to return to a page on the site after upload. At least I know that it will work now.

Many thanks Dave. Kudos.

Matt.