upload file from URL

[Geoff Berrow]

I have an input box for uploading image files

<input type="file" name="userfile" size="35" >

This works upload from my machine, but if I paste in a URL, the
following:

if (($_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/gif") ||
($_FILES['userfile']['type'])=="image/pjpeg" ||
($_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/jpeg"))

returns false even if the file is a .gif or a .jpg.

How do I upload pics from a URL?
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[Alan Little]

Re: upload file from URL

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of Geoff
Berrow of comp.lang.php make plain:
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> How do I upload pics from a URL?[/color]

You don't upload files from a URL. You upload files from your computer. If
you want to open a URL, ensure that allow_url_fopen is set to true in your
config, and use fopen():

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

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[John Dunlop]

Re: upload file from URL

Geoff Berrow wrote:
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> I have an input box for uploading image files[/color]

Although probably much improved, browser support for file uploads
is (still?) not universal. So consider offering users alternative
methods to transfer the data.
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> How do I upload pics from a URL?[/color]

RFC2388 sec. 5.7 outlines one possible way of referencing data at
an URL:

| In some scenarios, the user operating the client software might
| want to specify a URL for remote data rather than a local file.
| In this case, is there a way to allow the browser to send to the
| client a pointer to the external data rather than the entire
| contents? This capability could be implemented, for example, by
| having the client send to the server data of type
| "message/external-body" with "access-type" set to, say, "uri",
| and the URL of the remote data in the body of the message.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2388.txt

But current browser support is unsurprisingly nonexistent, to my
knowledge. Does anyone know a browser that implements this?

The intention of the HTML specification is that users are able to
choose a file from their local filesystem. Browsers usually offer
the user the option of browsing their filesystem to pick out a
file, but I can't see any reason why a user cannot enter a full
local pathname directly, such as "C:\temp\image. png" [1].


[1] I was going to type ".jpg", but you've seen this, right? ;-)

http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/1429861

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Jock