PHP file uploader

Learn how to upload files to your server with a simple PHP script

Step1. first we create a file called upload.htm with the following code. Be sure to always include enctype="multipart/form-data"; in your form tag when uploading files.

Step2. next we create a file called uploader.php which we use to process the upload

Step3. Once steps 1 and 2 are done you can copy upload.htm and uploader.php to the server and test the script. You will have to check in the target folder once you've run the script because we haven't added any code to confirm the upload yet. Lets do that now. We now add an HTML page below the existing code on uploader.php. Add the following code between the body tags of the HTML markup:

The complete code:

///////////////////////////////////////////
// UPLOAD.htm //
/////////////////////////////////////////////
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Uploader Input Page</title>

</head>

////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// UPLOADER.php // 
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
<?php 
$dirpath = "/home/usr/www/directory/"; // The path to the target directory
if ($_FILES['file']['name'] !="") // check that file exists
{
copy ($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],$dirpath/$_FILES['file']['name']) // copy the temp file to target dir preserving original name
or die("a problem occured while copying the file");
}
else {die("You forgot to select a file!");}
?> 
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Uploader Success Page</title>

</head>

<body>
The following file was uploaded successfully:<br>
name: <? echo $_FILES['file']['name']; ?><br>
size: <? echo $_FILES['file']['size']; ?><br>
type: <? echo $_FILES['file']['type']; ?><br> 
</body>
</html>

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