saving a file received by a form

[Jorge]

Hello

I am just another newbie programmer in PHP and web developping and in
the three days I have been messing up with it I have been able to do
all the things I wished except one. When I receive variables from a
form, like a string with the name I can read them with $_POST["name"]
without problem. But when the form sends to me a file, I haven't found
how to save it into my system.

I guess I can access to it with $_POST["file"], fopen it, and then do
fread and fwrite in another file. But this seems to me like a too much
unconfortable way of doing it, so I ask here what is the normal way of
saving a file sent by a form.


Lot of thanks for your help

Jorge

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: saving a file received by a form

In article <qjb4j01g1imln4 gdi10i04kltmajg kc2at@4ax.com>, Jorge wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Hello
>
> I am just another newbie programmer in PHP and web developping and in
> the three days I have been messing up with it I have been able to do
> all the things I wished except one. When I receive variables from a
> form, like a string with the name I can read them with $_POST["name"]
> without problem. But when the form sends to me a file, I haven't found
> how to save it into my system.[/color]

The primary source for information, the PHP manual:

http://be2.php.net/features.file-upload

--
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://home.mysth.be/~timvw>

[Jorge]

Re: saving a file received by a form

On 29 Aug 2004 20:41:01 GMT, Tim Van Wassenhove <euki@pi.be> wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>>
>> I am just another newbie programmer in PHP and web developping and in
>> the three days I have been messing up with it I have been able to do
>> all the things I wished except one. When I receive variables from a
>> form, like a string with the name I can read them with $_POST["name"]
>> without problem. But when the form sends to me a file, I haven't found
>> how to save it into my system.[/color]
>
>The primary source for information, the PHP manual:
>
>http://be2.php.net/features.file-upload[/color]

I feel a little bad to ask a question that obviously I could have
solved by myself, but I suppose that today I had my searching skills
in bad fit.

So a lot of thanks, Tim

Jorge