PHP - Looking For Upload Suggestions Based On This Scenario

Hi everyone,

I have a page that i use to upload images to my website, i got a bit fed up of uploading one at a time so i decided to add multiple file fields to the form to upload multiple images at the same time.

Im having a few problems, iv read up he http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php and it seems all i have to do is add [] to the form names to turn them into arrays. However when i come to upload the images, i keep getting the "$error[] = "Incorrect format!...." error from the code below. I cant seem to figure out what the problem is.

Could anybody please point me in the right direction?


<?php 
session_start();

$id = $_SESSION['id'];

$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","leemp5_admin","p7031521");
mysql_select_db("leemp5_database");

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users WHERE id='$id'");
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);

$username = $row['username'];

$submit = $_POST['submit'];

$type = $_FILES['image']['type'];
$size = $_FILES['image']['size'];
$max_size = "1000"; 
$width = "100"; 
$height = "100";
 
$error = array();

function make_thumb($image_name,$filename,$new_width,$new_height) 
{

$ext=getExtension($image_name); 

if(!strcmp("jpg",$ext) || !strcmp("jpeg",$ext)) 

$source_image=imagecreatefromjpeg($image_name);   

if(!strcmp("png",$ext)) 

$source_image=imagecreatefrompng($image_name);

if(!strcmp("gif",$ext)) 

$source_image=imagecreatefromgif($image_name); 

$old_x=imageSX($source_image);

$old_y=imageSY($source_image);   

$ratio1=$old_x/$new_width; 

$ratio2=$old_y/$new_height; 

if($ratio1>$ratio2)

{ 

$thumb_width=$new_width; 

$thumb_height=$old_y/$ratio1; 

} 

else 

{ 

$thumb_height=$new_height;

$thumb_width=$old_x/$ratio2; 

} 
  

$destination_image=ImageCreateTrueColor($thumb_width,$thumb_height);   

imagecopyresampled($destination_image,$source_image,0,0,0,0,$thumb_width,$thumb_height,$old_x,$old_y);   

if(!strcmp("jpg",$ext) || !strcmp("jpeg",$ext))

{

imagejpeg($destination_image,$filename); 

}

if(!strcmp("png",$ext)) 

{

imagepng($destination_image,$filename); 

}

if(!strcmp("gif",$ext)) 

{

imagegif($destination_image,$filename); 

}

imagedestroy($destination_image); 

imagedestroy($source_image); 
}   


function getExtension($str)
{ 

$i = strrpos($str,"."); 

if (!$i) { return ""; } 

$l = strlen($str) - $i; 

$ext = substr($str,$i+1,$l); 

return $ext; 
}   

if($submit) 
{ 

$image=$_FILES['image']['name']; 

if ($image) 

{ 

$filename = stripslashes($_FILES['image']['name']);   

$extension = getExtension($filename); 

$extension = strtolower($extension); 

if (($extension != "jpg") && ($extension != "jpeg") && ($extension != "png") && ($extension != "gif"))

{ 

$error[] = "Incorrect format! Please make sure your image is a .jpg, .jpeg, .png or .gif file.";

} 

else

{ 

$size=getimagesize($_FILES['image']['tmp_name']); 

$sizekb=filesize($_FILES['image']['tmp_name']); 
  

if ($sizekb > $max_size*1024) 

{ 

$error[] = "Your image is too big! The maximum upload size is 1MB.";

}   

else

{

$image_name=time().'.'.$extension; 
 

$newname="uploads/" . $username . "/images/".$image_name; $copied = copy($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $newname); 

if (!$copied) 

{ 

$error[] = "There was an error uploading your image. Please try again!";

} 

else 

{ 

$thumb_name='uploads/' . $username . '/images/thumbs/thumb_'.$image_name; 
 

$thumb=make_thumb($newname,$thumb_name,$width,$height); 

}

}

}

}

else

{

$error[] = "Please select an image to upload!";

}

if(empty($error))

{

echo "Upload Successfully!<br />"; 

echo '<img src="'.$thumb_name.'">';

mysql_query("INSERT INTO images VALUES ('','$username','$image_name','','','','','uploads/$username/images/$image_name','uploads/$username/images/thumbs/thumb_$image_name','$type','$size')");

}

else

{
    

echo implode($error);

}
}
?>
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload_images.php">
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="file" name="image[]" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload">
</form>


Thanks

I have code written for image uploading, but it doesn't allow multiple images on a single upload, and doesn't re-size.

Anyone willing to share a good upload script that will do the following?:
-Allow multiple image uploads (10+ per submission),
-Re-size images on upload, and
-Rename images.

Thanks
Brett

Hi

I was playing with a poll, but for some reasons it won't email me(the bottom most part). Where did I go wrong?

Also any suggestions on how to improve this?

Thanks your the best guys!


<?php
include('config.php');
$name = strip_tags($_POST['name']);
$email = $_POST['email'];
$qst_id=strip_tags($_POST['qst_id']);
//if no ajax
$opt = strip_tags($_POST['opt']);
$s_id = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

//validate email 
if (!preg_match('/^.+@.+\..{2,3}$/',$email));
{
$email = 'email was blocked';
}
if (strlen($name) >= 50)
{
$name = 'name was blocked';
}


if ($opt == '')
{
$vote ="no";
}
elseif (($opt=='Yes') || ($opt=='No'))
{
$qt=mysql_query("insert into plus_poll_ans(s_id,qst_id,opt) values('".$s_id."','".$qst_id."','".$opt."')");
}
else
{
$vote = "no";
}

echo "<font size='2' face='Verdana' color='#000000' style='font-size:1.2em;'> Declaration of Faith</font>";

$qst_id=1; // change this to change the poll 

/* Find out the question first */
$fg=mysql_query("select qst from plus_poll where qst_id='".$qst_id."'");
$row=mysql_fetch_object($fg);

echo "<br><b><br>$row->qst</b><br>"; // display the question
/* for percentage calculation we will find out the total number
 of answers ( options submitted ) given by the visitors */
$rt=mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select ans_id from plus_poll_ans where qst_id='".$qst_id."'"));


/* Find out the answers and display the graph */
$query="select count(*) as no,qst,plus_poll_ans.opt from plus_poll,plus_poll_ans where plus_poll.qst_id=plus_poll_ans.qst_id and plus_poll.qst_id='".$qst_id."' group by opt desc ";
$rs=mysql_query($query);

//count the answers by yes or no
$count= "SELECT opt, count(opt) FROM plus_poll_ans GROUP BY opt desc"; 
$result = mysql_query($count) or die(mysql_error());

//separate the results
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$total_opt[] = $row['count(opt)'];
}

// Print out result
echo "<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' width='100%' >";

$i = 0;
while($noticia = mysql_fetch_array($rs)){
 echo "<tr>
    <td width='5%' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'>&nbsp;<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>$noticia[opt]</font></td>";
$width2=$noticia['no'] *10 ; /// change here the multiplicaiton factor //////////
$ct=($noticia[no]/$rt)*100;
$ct=sprintf ("%01.2f", $ct); // number formating 

echo "    <td width='20%' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'>&nbsp;<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>($ct %)</font></td><td width='60%' align='left' bgcolor='#F1F1F1'>&nbsp;<img src='graph.jpg' height=10 width=$width2>";
 echo "</td><td width='15%' align='right'>";
 echo "<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>".$total_opt[$i];
 echo " votes";
 echo "</font></td>";
 echo  "</tr>";
 echo "<tr>
    <td  bgcolor='#ffffff' colspan=2>"; 
 echo "</td>";
 echo "</tr>";
 $i=$i+1;
}
echo "<tr><td></td><td></td><td><font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>Total Votes:</font></td><td align='right'>";
//count the total votes
$count = 'select count(ans_id) from plus_poll_ans';
$count = mysql_query($count);
$count = mysql_fetch_array($count);
$total_count = $count['count(ans_id)'];

echo "<font size='1' face='Verdana' color='#000000'>".$total_count." votes</font>";
echo "</td></tr>";
echo "</table>";
echo "</font>";


if ($vote!='no')
{
//email
$to = 'person1@example.com, person2@example.com';
$subject = 'Someone just made a declaration of faith';
$message = "Someone from the ip address ".$s_id;
// Always set content-type when sending HTML email
$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
$headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
$headers .= 'From: Vote Detector <website@example.com>'. "\r\n";
if ($name!='')
{
$message = $message." with the name ".$name;
}
if ($email!='')
{
$message = $message." with email ".$email;
}
$message = $message." voted "."yes<br/>";
$message = $message."total number of people who declared their faith: ".$total_count." people<br/>";
$message = $message."with a total of ".$total_opt[0]." people saying yes";
$message = $message." and a total of ".$total_opt[1]." people saying no<br/>";
mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
}

?>

what i want is to upload my informations to database when i press the submit button.
but if any field is empty it should show a text that all fields are required but in the same page(up or down to the form).
However with this code my database is not working>informations are not send to the database.
why?Any sggesstions?

Code: [Select]
<?php 
// Start a session for error reporting
session_start();
//Connect to database
require("includes/connect_to_mysql.php");

//check if the button is pressed
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
// Check to see if the type of file uploaded is a valid image type
function is_valid_type($file)
{
// This is an array that holds all the valid image MIME types
$valid_types = array("image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/bmp", "image/gif", "image/png");


if (in_array($file['type'], $valid_types))
return 1;
    return 0;
}
// This variable is the path to the image folder where all the images are going to be stored
// Note that there is a trailing forward slash
$TARGET_PATH = "upload_form_images/";

// Get our POSTed variables
$name = $_POST['name'];
$surname = $_POST['surname'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$city = $_POST['city'];
$details = $_POST['details'];
$price = $_POST['price'];
$image = $_FILES['image'];

// Sanitize our inputs
$name = mysql_real_escape_string($name);
$surname = mysql_real_escape_string($surname);
$email = mysql_real_escape_string($email);
$city = mysql_real_escape_string($city);
$details = mysql_real_escape_string($details);
$price = mysql_real_escape_string($price);
$image['name'] = mysql_real_escape_string($image['name']);

// Build our target path full string.  This is where the file will be moved do
// i.e.  images/picture.jpg
$TARGET_PATH .= $image['name'];

// Make sure all the fields from the form have inputs
if ( $name == "" || $surname == "" || $email == "" || $city == ""  || $details == "" || $price == ""|| $image['name'] == "" )
{
$_SESSION['error'] = "Te gjithe fushat duhet plotesuar";
echo "Te gjithe fushat duhet plotesuar";
header("Location: upload_form.php");
exit;
}

// Check to make sure that our file is actually an image
// You check the file type instead of the extension because the extension can easily be faked
if (!is_valid_type($image))
{
$_SESSION['error'] = "Fotografite duhet te jene te formateve jpg, jpeg, bmp, gif, ose png";
header("Location: upload_form.php");
exit;
}

// Here we check to see if a file with that name already exists
// You could get past filename problems by appending a timestamp to the filename and then continuing
if (file_exists($TARGET_PATH))
{
$_SESSION['error'] = "Ju lutem nderroni emrin e fotos.";
header("Location: upload_form.php");
exit;
}

/*
// See if that product name is an identical match to another product in the system
$sql = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM upload_form WHERE name='$name' LIMIT 1");
$productMatch = mysql_num_rows($sql); // count the output amount
    if ($productMatch > 0) {
$_SESSION['error'] = 'Ju lutem nderroni emrin sepse egziston ne databaze';
header("Location: upload_form.php");
exit();
}
*/

// Lets attempt to move the file from its temporary directory to its new home
if (move_uploaded_file($image['tmp_name'], $TARGET_PATH))
{
// NOTE: This is where a lot of people make mistakes.
// We are *not* putting the image into the database; we are putting a reference to the file's location on the server
$sql = "insert into people (name, surname, email, city, details, price, filename) values ('$name', '$surname', '$email', '$city', '$details',  '$price', '" . $image['name'] . "')";
$result = mysql_query($sql) or die ("Futja e te dhenave ne databaze DESHTOI: " . mysql_error());
echo "Shtimi i te dhenave u krye me SUKSES";
exit;
}
else
{
// A common cause of file moving failures is because of bad permissions on the directory attempting to be written to
// Make sure you chmod the directory to be writeable
$_SESSION['error'] = "Shtimi i te dhenave NUK u krye me Sukses.  Ju lutem provoni perseri";
header("Location: upload_form.php");
exit;
}
}
?>

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        </label></td>
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        <option value=""></option>
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          <input type="file" name="image" id="image" />
        </label></td>
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Hello there,

Thank you for taking the time to visit my thread. I've been brainstorming for the past few days trying to establish the best method of a content management system. I'm curious since you are all highly advanced PHP coders what you think the best method of content management is I would like it to be presented in the URL in the following method:

file.php?v=example


So please share your ideas remember there is never a stupid suggestion I want to hear all your possibilities please!

This is what I am using and it returns the entire schedule for the whole league...

if ($display == "schedule") {

$schedule = $ffn->getSchedule();

echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>';
echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>';

foreach($schedule->Games AS $game) {
echo '<p>';
echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone;
echo '</p>';
}
}

BUT what I would like to do is search the info and only post info for one team...

I have tried this...

if ($display == "schedule") {

$schedule = $ffn->getSchedule();

echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>';
echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>';

foreach($schedule->Games AS $game)
if (AwayTeam == 'DAL") {
echo '<p>';
echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone;
echo '</p>';
}
}
ELSE IF (HomeTeam == 'DAL')
if ($display == "schedule") {

$schedule = $ffn->getSchedule();

echo '<h4>Season Schedule</h4>';
echo '<p>Season: ', $schedule->Season, '</p>';

foreach($schedule->Games AS $game) {
echo '<p>';
echo 'Week: ', $game->Week, ' ', $game->AwayTeam, ' at ', $game->HomeTeam, ' on ', date("M j, Y", strtotime($game->GameDate)), ' at ', $game->GameTime, ' ', $schedule->Timezone;
echo '</p>';
}
}

Else 
echo "No Games Scheduled"

Problem is it's not working... how can I just pull the info for DAL and only display that info.  The info is coming from an XML file...

Thanks in Advance!

I'm getting a '500 Internal Server' and 'Premature end of script headers..' errors in the process of uploading a file. This occurs consistently with files > 2MB but also (very occasionally) w/ smaller files. The target directories are beneath the web root folder, so I don't think it's a permissions issue.

I've set the following in my php5.ini:
post_max_size = 8M,
upload_max_filesize = 8M
max_input_time = 360
max_execution_time = 360

Trace code/logging reveals that the error occurs even before my upload code is entered (which uses (move_uploaded_file()).  So what would cause that?

Any suggestions on how to debug this are very much appreciated!

i have made my own website suggestion box but when i start typing in on my websites search box google chrome automatically suggests other words and you can't see underneath. I don't want this to happen to other people viewing my website. Is there any sort of code i an put on my website to stop this?

How to do #3 by a PHP page instead? mainly so
that there wouldn't be a need to
export the sql after doing #2 then
import it into the online phpmyadmin(#3)

#1. Convert database from foxpro to sql
#2. Change some fields in the sql table
#3. Upload to phpmyadmin

Is it possible to create a code to export
from the server and then import the sql online?

like by making use of mysql_fetch_array() and insert into

This topic has been moved to Miscellaneous.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=308872.0

hi Guys..............i am final year student and i need to submit a project that should me medium to large size and i want to build it on PHP so it would be very kind if you can kindly suggest me topics for the same however there is just one restriction the process that i cannot build anything like management systems or social networking websites the idea should be new and catchy and ya one more thing no e-com websites as well.....................looking ahead for your advice..................thank you.

Hello all,

I'm looking for some advice on a problem.
I have a very basic web page containing three section, the header, the content and the footer in that order. What I would like is the header and footer always on the page and only the content section change by means of links in a navigation bar. I've looked into iframes, php include, javascript and something called Ajax and must say I'm all a bit confused by it all.

Which would be most advisable and how would I excecute it.

My pages are as follows.
Home page is.
index.php
Pages I would like to show in the content Div.
about.php
contact.php
home.php

If you need any more information, please let me know.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I could really use some advise and ideas on PHP caching. Specifically I'm working on a CMS application and after its completed I realized there is an opportunity to increase performance if some of the pages are cached. And the terms I'm using for search are taking too long to sift through 

I thonk what I'm looking for could be like a CGI script, but I don't have any experience with that right now. Another idea is to wrap my 'public php' page with a check for an existing cached file, else run the query. And add, somewhere in my existing 'admin php' page, a write to file scriptie to create the cache file.

Or something else entirely. I don't know yet. I'd like to read some explanations of projects and scripts that either create a 'push CMS' application, or maybe a 'pull CMS' where the parameters for the cache are not time-based (expiration) but file based (file exist?). Or something else...

Kudos and huzz-zaa's for the dude who can put words to my dribble.

Hi guys. I haven't been for a while in this great community.

I'm starting to develop a PHP-based forum software that I'm planning to release as Open Source locally (in my country, Albania). I've got a few developers in the team to help me on the core and features. But I wanted to ask for a few suggestions on some specific features. I have a few ideas on them, but you may have better options.

1. Forums and topics marked as "read" or "unread" are a nice feature that gives you in a glimpse what has happened. The problem is that I have no good idea on how to implement it. My first thought was to store an array in a cookie with the threads read in the last 10 days (so it doesn't become overloaded) and check those dates with the updated posts. Any idea that could work better?

2. I've never handled an "update feature". The idea is to offer an update installation when I will release the software and maintain it. Any idea how to design such a feature?

3. Any suggestion on searching (FULL TEXT SEARCH) and caching (DB and Template)?

Hope it's not too much a request and you guys can give a few suggestions.

suggestions on how to write this code better
I have a form that has 2 textboxes in it. The php listed below...confirms that the passwords match, confirms that there are at least 6 characters in in, confirms that there is at least 1 number. I am doing mostly if statements with it, but I was wondering if there was a better way to write.

Code: [Select]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
     <form name="form1" method="post" action="<?PHP $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>">

<table width="100%" border="1">
  <tr>
    <th scope="row"> <strong>New password:  </strong>
            <input type="password" maxlength="15" name="password"></th>
<th scope="row"> <strong>New password confirmed: </strong>
            <input type="password" maxlength="15" name="confirm_password"></th>
<th scope="row"><input type="submit" name="update" value="Update Password" /></th>
  </tr>
</table>

</form>
<?PHP
//verify that the update button is pressed
if (isset($_POST['update']))
{
//verify that the passwords match
if($_POST['password'] == $_POST['confirm_password'])
{
echo "passwords match";
echo "<br>";

}
//verify that the password and password confirmation was entered
elseif ((isset($_POST['password'])) && ($_POST['confirm_password']))
{
echo "Password and confirm password set";
echo "<br>";
}
//verify that the # of characters was entered
elseif (strlen($_POST['password'])<6)
{
$num_char=strlen($_POST['password']);
echo "Please enter more characters";
echo "<br>";
}
//find out if number exsist
if (strlen($_POST['password'])>5)
{
$subject = $_POST['password'];
preg_match_all('/[0-9]/', $subject, $matches);
$count = count($matches[0]);
//echo $count;
if ($count <=1)
echo "Please enter in at least 1 number you currently have: " .$count;
}//close of verification of both boxes entered

}//close of $_POST
?>

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