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Very Simple Php File Upload

03.26.2007

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        I think this is the minimum necessary to upload a file in php. First, the form, index.php:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload.php" method="POST">
    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="512000" />
    Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file" />
    <input type="submit" value="Send File" />
</form>


Next, the php to accept the file, upload.php

<?php

$uploaddir = '/var/www/uploads/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['userfile']['name']);

echo "<p>";

if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
  echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
} else {
   echo "Upload failed";
}

echo "</p>";
echo '<pre>';
echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';
print_r($_FILES);
print "</pre>";

?>

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Comments

Abagaw Gagaf replied on Tue, 2013/04/23 - 6:03am

another solution may be posted on stackoverflow - php simple file upload script

Anush Anil Kumar replied on Fri, 2012/09/07 - 3:57pm

Here is a bit more advanced and safer version for beginners PHP File Upload

Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2011/02/01 - 8:33pm

Great distilling of php file upload, thanks! Interestingly, it's even simpler to completely omit the action="upload.php" (or have an empty string), as the browser will then just reuse the existing php script/url.

Snippets Manager replied on Tue, 2007/06/05 - 11:43am

beware, if the file name (which can be set to whatever the user wants, not in the browser, but when sending the data manually) contains things like ../index.php it can overwrite things you don't want to be overridden.