PHP - 2 Questions About Zip Files
First what are the possible $_FILES['file']['type'] s of .zip. I know one is "application/x-zip-compressed" but are there any others (basically I need to check if the uploaded file is a .zip?
Second question; how could I extract the contents of .zip to a directory on the server without the use of FTP? Thanks Similar TutorialsSo far I have managed to create an upload process which uploads a picture, updates the database on file location and then tries to upload the db a 2nd time to update the Thumbnails file location (i tried updating the thumbnails location in one go and for some reason this causes failure) But the main problem is that it doesn't upload some files Here is my upload.php <?php include 'dbconnect.php'; $statusMsg = ''; $Title = $conn -> real_escape_string($_POST['Title']) ; $BodyText = $conn -> real_escape_string($_POST['ThreadBody']) ; // File upload path $targetDir = "upload/"; $fileName = basename($_FILES["file"]["name"]); $targetFilePath = $targetDir . $fileName; $fileType = pathinfo($targetFilePath,PATHINFO_EXTENSION); $Thumbnail = "upload/Thumbnails/'$fileName'"; if(isset($_POST["submit"]) && !empty($_FILES["file"]["name"])){ // Allow certain file formats $allowTypes = array('jpg','png','jpeg','gif','pdf', "webm", "mp4"); if(in_array($fileType, $allowTypes)){ // Upload file to server if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], $targetFilePath)){ // Insert image file name into database $insert = $conn->query("INSERT into Threads (Title, ThreadBody, filename) VALUES ('$Title', '$BodyText', '$fileName')"); if($insert){ $statusMsg = "The file ".$fileName. " has been uploaded successfully."; $targetFilePathArg = escapeshellarg($targetFilePath); $output=null; $retval=null; //exec("convert $targetFilePathArg -resize 300x200 ./upload/Thumbnails/'$fileName'", $output, $retval); exec("convert $targetFilePathArg -resize 200x200 $Thumbnail", $output, $retval); echo "REturned with status $retval and output:\n" ; if ($retval == null) { echo "Retval is null\n" ; echo "Thumbnail equals $Thumbnail\n" ; } }else{ $statusMsg = "File upload failed, please try again."; } }else{ $statusMsg = "Sorry, there was an error uploading your file."; } }else{ $statusMsg = 'Sorry, only JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, mp4, webm & PDF files are allowed to upload.'; } }else{ $statusMsg = 'Please select a file to upload.'; } //Update SQL db by setting the thumbnail column to equal $Thumbnail $update = $conn->query("update Threads set thumbnail = '$Thumbnail' where filename = '$fileName'"); if($update){ $statusMsg = "Updated the thumbnail to sql correctly."; echo $statusMsg ; } else { echo "\n Failed to update Thumbnail. Thumbnail equals $Thumbnail" ; } // Display status message echo $statusMsg; ?> And this does work on most files however it is not working on a 9.9mb png file which is named "test.png" I tested on another 3.3 mb gif file and that failed too? For some reason it returns the following Updated the thumbnail to sql correctly.Updated the thumbnail to sql correctly. Whereas on the files it works on it returns REturned with status 0 and output: Retval is null Thumbnail equals upload/Thumbnails/'rainbow-trh-stache.gif' Failed to update Thumbnail. Thumbnail equals upload/Thumbnails/'rainbow-trh-stache.gif'The file rainbow-trh-stache.gif has been uploaded successfully. Any idea on why this is? Hello I have a simple question about file handling... Is it possible to list all files in directories / subdirectories, and then read ALL files in those dirs, and put the content of their file into an array? Like this: array: [SomePath/test.php] = "All In this php file is being read by a new smart function!"; [SomePath/Weird/hello.txt = "Hello world. This is me and im just trying to get some help!";and so on, until no further files exists in that rootdir. All my attempts went totally crazy and none of them works... therefore i need to ask you for help. Do you have any ideas how to do this? If so, how can I be able to do it? Thanks in Advance, pros I am using WPSQT plugin in my blog site .I code some files in PHP also.how to add that files in plugin files.
Howdy, I am new to SEO. Could you please help me? 1. I like to post programming tutorials to both my website & various programming forums. Is that going to screw up my website's ranking in Google? 2. My editor of my history website who sometimes posts essays there also posts them in some history forums. Is that bad for SEO? 3. I made a Facebook page for my history website. It says there "Promote your page" basically you pay $5 for around 100 likes. Has anyone tried that? Does it work? Because $5 seems like little money for additional 100 likes which will increase the traffic considerably. Thank you so much for the help! Hi. I'll like to ask few questions about PHP, as I think they are related to it.
I've came across some webpages, what I've spotted is that a webpage displays content but each "page" has different argument and there is no filename.
For example:
"http://www.website.com/?home" is home-like webpage, by changing "/?home" to "/?anotherpage" land me on some other webpage on their website and so on. My question is how is it done? Is it done from PHP?
Another question I wanted to ask is.. I went on InvisionPower.Board forum (such as this PHP Freaks ). How to force "folders" to be displayed as "files"?
For example:
"http://forums.phpfre...ks-on-facebook/" which links to a thread.
Thanks in advance
I've been coding PHP for some time and would consider myself to be at an intermediate level. I can write code to do what I need but it's probably not the best way to do it. I rarely see any code that I am not able to read, understand, or follow. I've created modifications for everything from vBulletin, WordPress, Kayako Support Suit, Magento, and more. However, I've never really built a strong understanding around OOP. For example, let say you have the following classes: _main - db - admin - - modules - - - dashboard How would you share the db connection with the dashboard class? I've been trying to read up on Dependency Injections and Singletons but I haven't found an article that has explained it on a level that I can understand. I get a feeling that most people who use OOP in PHP have a background in Java or C++ and are much more familiar with everything. Could someone please explain this to me in simple terms or link me to an extremely well explained article that I'd be able to understand without a background in computer science? Thanks Hello everyone, I have been doing web developing for a little while and just recently decided to make the leap to developing standalone applications. I started learning C++ and JAVA for this purpose, but quickly learned that PHP can also be used to this end, and since I am quite familiar with PHP, I thought it would make sense to start with PHP GTK. But before I jump right in, I have a few questions that I would greatly appreciate some answers for: Does PHP have any significant advantages/disadvantages over lower level languages such as C++ ? I would imagine that PHP being originally designed for web programming would be less suited for stand alones. I'm a little confused as to whether the GTK is a graphical user interphase software, the likes of QT and Netbeans, or is it a markup language like HTML, where the widgets are generated with text commands? Please I need a little clarification on that. Also are there any other tools that need to be downloaded to get started besides the GTK? Finally, am I supposed to learn OOP PHP to get going or is traditional procedural PHP sufficient? Answers to any or all of the above questions and any other advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks. Hey guys! im currently learning javascript, PHP and SQL. I have a pretty solid understanding of HTML and CSS. I want to make a site similar to facebook (a good facebook). this is going to be a big project and i plan on moving to a bigger server system in a year or so to keep up with demands.
Heres how the site will function:
1. Basic registration/splash page. I understand that the finished form is sent to a php file on the server side, correct? (ill change my server name files of course)
2. after the registration page, while the user is logged in with their new account, there are 3 pages after that that explain what the website is all about and how to use it. the last page allows the user to setup their profile information, ask friends to join, and asks what type of things they like. After the last page, it sends the user to their main control panel, where social media feed can be seen, friends and online chats, news, advertisements, links, pages and groups (think facebook and linkedin)
3. the user will have the ability to look at their profile (not the control panel), and of course switch back to their control panel. social media, friends, groups and ads will also be on their individual profile page as well.
4. i want the site to have two views: a standard view and an enhanced view. the enhanced view will reposition divs and all that stuff so they can see a background image (either stock or one they uploaded) this image will eventually change to an animated image of a 3d environment.
5. the site is going to be heavily social media based. This means social media feeds, image uploading, a structured comment system, a friend system, search functions and targeted advertising.
This is obviously a lot to ask, but since their is so much to learn related to PHP and SQL, can someone point me to the right tutorials on how to get these things done? I am currently learning javascript, PHP and SQL on lynda.com. Expect me to be on this forum a lot and asking a lot of questions. Thanks for any help.
Edited by PHPlearner32, 10 January 2015 - 11:19 PM. Hi all, I my hunt for better coding i thought i look at some opensource CMS systems and one thing I saw in the index.php of the joomla cms was this. define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) ); define( 'DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR ); require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'defines.php' ); require_once ( JPATH_BASE .DS.'includes'.DS.'framework.php' ); Are they using DS to make it work on any platform instead of using a / or a \ ? Also they define JPATH_BASE, now they use dirname(__FILE__) for this. I read that __FILE__ tells from where the script is running. But in that same guide they gave as example dirname(dirname((__FILE__)) instead of only 1 time dirname() That was this website btw: http://www.phpguru.org/php-application-structure can anyone tell why i would use dirname 2 times and not 1 or 3 or 4? -edit: OK that last question don't needs an answer, i just put loads of dirname() around it and it seems it's moving up in the file system. Leaves my first still open I basically have a picture uploading system for users. I have two questions: 1) What CHMOD should I use for the folders that are there for uploading files to? Currently it is 755, but I want it to be accessible and safe. 2) When I use the standard mkdir() function to create folders in my main parent folder, the folders don't get created. Is this because my parent folder is CHMOD 755? Thanks So I have been slowly working on a custom forum.
I have recently been trying to implement an achievement system.
For the most part achievements would work based on the users
amount of posts
amount of characters in a post
amount of replies on a post
time past from the users join date.
I was hoping to find out how I could put an entry into a database field based on the above.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
1. If I start a new project, should I use Laravel 5.0(dev) or 4.2?
2. How easy is it to upgrade from between major version like that?
3. Any design recommendations for daily with authentication and accounts?
Hello, I'm fairly new to PHP, and I'm looking to create an online catalog for a furniture/appliance store. I'm wondering the best way to go about this. I'm looking at SQLMaestro's "PHP Generator for MySQL" http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/mysql/phpgenerator/ ... But, I'm curious if you guys can point me in the right direction. I've never created a database before, and I want to do it the way that makes the most sense... Any advice would be appreciated!! A few questions about mod_rewrites... 1.) If I want to determine if the URL ends with either "list" or "gallery", and then take appropriate action, does the code below look correct?
RewriteRule shop/(.+)/([list|gallery])$ shop/catalog.php?category=$1&view=2 [L]
2.) Is it bad to use mod_rewrites to determine how your website branches? For example...
RewriteRule shop/music/(.*)$ go somewhere [L] RewriteRule shop/movies/(.*)$ go somewhere else [L] RewriteRule shop/books/(.*)$ go yet somewhere else [L]
I've been looking for Curl tutorials and haven't really found any good ones. Can Curl take text from a website and store it in a variable? If so, can I get an example? If not, could someone please redirect me towards something it can? Example: A site has a list of items you've earned on a game, you want to store them and output them on your site. If this isn't clear enough please let me know. This topic has been moved to mod_rewrite. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=348665.0 This topic has been moved to Third Party PHP Scripts. http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=348384.0 Some questions about PHP Constants... 1.) What make a Constant "come to life"? 2.) What is the life of a Constant? 3.) Can you define a Constant in "file_1.php" and use the Constant in "file_2.php" and "file_3.php"?? Debbie |