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Hey guys I want to make a file uploader on my website bu开发者_C百科t i don't know how.

if someone could get me off to a start with a basic code or point me to a resource i would be very thankful.

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The PHP Manual has a whole section devoted to this.

The tl;dr of it is that there is a special type of <input> element you can use in your HTML that tells the browser you expect a file and it takes care of the mess of locating the file, etc. You then POST this to your script in a normal HTML <form> and it appears inside the $_FILES superglobal in PHP. The file itself gets sent to a temporary file on the server, and the $_FILES superglobal contains all sorts of information on the state of the transfer and the location and information of the files transmitted.

Have fun!

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You can get a browse button which can upload a file.To do that put this in your html or PHP

<form action="upload.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file"/>
<input type="submit" name="submit"/>

In the PHP which 'll handle the upload

if(isset($_POST['submit']))
 { $dir="yourdirectory";
   $tmp=$_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
   $targetname="name you want to give";
 }

and use the move_uploaded_file function as

move_uploaded_file($tmp,$dir."/".$targetname);

also you will need to check for failed uploads and other errors.

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The PHP documentation has a whole section on handling file uploads, complete with examples. I'd suggest starting there.

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I find the php tutorials are a bit hard to follow for beginners. Try the following: http://www.quackit.com/php/tutorial/php_upload_file.cfm