Uploading a File with PHP and HTML5

Here is a quick example for you Elliott Frazier

You can find all the demo files here

Here are several links that will help you tremendously over time and are a great reference for common pitfalls or other methods you may not have know about.

php.ini configuration for file uploads

Post method upload documentation

PHP 5.3 Fileinfo documentation

Fileinfo predefined constants

move_uploaded_file function documentation

PHP file upload error message definitons

Have fun folks!

I would like to be able to download this video. We have the option to download all videos in the Tracks so could we please have a way to download this one too?

Wow, this could absolutely not have come at a better time for me. I'm building a PHP site for the first time for my job, and quite literally the very next thing I need to do is incorporate the ability to upload files! Thank you, and thanks to the guy that asked for this!

I have been waiting to find out how to do this! thanks so much!

The link appears to be broken. Thanks a lot for the demo, much appreciated.

Thanks a bunch! Cant wait to dive into it!

Very neat! But I'm not able to download the demo files, have they been uploaded? Thks

Excellent example.

Thank you very much.

wow, nice... I will wait the next video about upload file (images) with progress bar. thx

Hallo, i am trying to validate different types, and it's not working. why is that?

// validate file
    if ($file_mime !== 'image/jpeg' OR $file_mime !== 'image/png' OR $file_mime !== 'application/zip' OR $file_mime !== 'image/gif') {
    die('we only want jpg,png,gif and zip files, and you sent us this: ' . $file_mime);
    }

thanks

love it, thanks

Needed to know this! thank you. :)

Great timing, I was just wondering how to do this! Thanks for the video!

Many thanks for this clear explanation!

Good stuff great video!!!

Just a a note !!!

I was having trouble accomplishing this task, just to realize that the php version that i am using is PHP Version 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.27 does not support finfo_open() error log shows : PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function finfo_open()to then only to find out that php 5.3.0 and above supports it. Does anyone knows the way around this using php 5.2.4?

I got this message: Fatal error: Call to undefined function finfo_open()

why it saying it's undefined? i'm running php 5.4.16

also I took that out and got the mime type like this but got "move_uploaded_file(entry_pics/pets/baby leopard.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in":

   $tmp_name = $_FILES['entry_pic']['tmp_name'];
    $file_mime = $_FILES['entry_pic']['type'];

    if($file_mime !== 'image/jpeg'){
      die("We only want jpeg files");
    }

    if(!move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, 'entry_pics/pets/'.$_FILES['entry_pic']['name'])){
      echo "File not uploaded";
    }

hello Wendell - if you are using windows: Windows users must include the bundled php_fileinfo.dll DLL file in php.ini to enable this extension. If this is not the case, please paste all of your code and give a bit more info about your development setup so I may try to reproduce it.

thanks for the tip on the php_fileinfo.dll... fixed that and I no longer get the undefined function error when i use the exact code used in the video for that part... I also updated my version of php and xampp but i'm still getting the move_uploaded_file error

here's my entire code:

  include('../inc/db.php');
  $entry_text=$_POST['entry_text'];
  if(count($_FILES)){
    $tmp_name = $_FILES['entry_pic']['tmp_name'];

    $finfo = finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME_TYPE);
    $file_mime = finfo_file($finfo, $tmp_name);
    finfo_close($finfo);

    if($file_mime !== 'image/jpeg'){
      die("We only want jpeg files");
    }

    if(!move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, 'entry_pics/pets/'.$_FILES['entry_pic']['name'])){
      echo "File not uploaded";
    } else {
      $db->query("INSERT INTO crafts SET entry_pic_path = 'entry_pics/pets/".$_FILES['entry_pic']['name']."',
        entry_text = '".$entry_text."', date = CURDATE()");
      header("location: ../pets.php");
    }
  }

yea it was the second argument.. my file path was messed up... I just had to add "../" to the start of the file path on the move_uploaded_file function and it worked just fine :D thanks again for the video and the feedback :D