PHP - Nub Question - Dynamically Link Header Files

So i have a file uploader that allows people to upload files to the server and then download them via a URL.

I want to store uploaded files outside of the Root. (One level up from the root in a folder called Uploads)

Code snippet

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$server = "http://www.mysite.com";

$name = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$temp = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
$size = $_FILES['file']['size'];

$destination = '../uploads/'. $random;
mkdir($destination);
move_uploaded_file($temp, $destination."/".$name);

$final = $server."/".$destination."/".$name;
This...

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$destination = '../uploads/' . $random ;
Didn't work, any tips?

I know basically nothing about PHP but i have a few websites i manage that are built with PHP.
I plan to learn PHP but for the time being learning Javascript has a wider range of usability for me.

That being said,

Im trying to link to an XML sitemap using php.

in html i would use Code: [Select]
<link href="sitemap.xml" />
how can i do this in PHP?

I have searched google and such for how to do this but was unable to find an explanation that i could understand as relating to my need.

I currently have a login script in place on my site and to get to certain pages you have to be logged in to get to.

So when a user tries to go to one of those pages and is not logged in it sends them to the login page (which is great)
But on the login page once they login it uses "   header('Location: index.php')    " to automatically send them to the index page logged in.

How can i dynamically see what page they are coming from that way when they login I can send them back to where they where trying to get to to begin with. (like if they click on "Profile" and they are not logged in it sends them to "login" then they login and it currently sends them to "index" I want it to dynamically know to send them back to "profile" instead)

If this doesn't make sense and i will try and explain it better
But if you understand and know how to do this please help

Thanks ahead of time!

this question seems so stupid, but i really want to know the best way to write this code.

let say i have this code:

if(empty($num))
{
header("Location:index.php");
}

is it okay if i write it down like this?

if(empty($num))
{
  header("Location:index.php");
}

i mean there is a whitespace behind header()

thanks in advance

In my system I have a collection of php files which handle the requests from my ajax e.g. I have a function which lets users "subscribe" to another user's posts "userConnect()" and another function which lets a user uprate another user's post "uprate()"

At the moment the uprate() function uses ajax to pass it's data to a file called "ajax_uprate.php" and the userConnect() function similarly passes it's data to a file called "ajax_userConnect.php".

Would I be better to combine these files into one global ajax.php file or is it better to keep them seperate? Basically I am wondering because at the moment I have a tonne of ajax_XXX files for every single function, each containing a very small amount of code. My thinking was that the smaller these files are the faster these ajax processes would take place. Am I right in thinking this or not?

Please delete my other post as I realized it is not what I needed and I cannot delete it myself.

Here is exactly what I need.

I have X amount of text files (with random names) in each text file there is Y amount of lines with one word on each line.

I need to open all X amount of files and take the first line from each and save it in a new txt doc. then take the second line of each and save them to a new text doc. and so on.

so I have all the line 1's from all the txt files together
and all the line 2's together etc.


I hope that makes sense.

Hello I have the following code from php websites

$myfile = fopen("/config.php", "a+") or die("Unable to open file!");

while(!feof($myfile)) {
  echo fgets($myfile) . "<br>";
 
  $txt = "Mickey Mouse\n";
  fwrite($myfile, $txt);
}

inside config.php is

<?php  
  define('script_path', 'files');
?>

How can I replace files with another value? any help would be great thanks.

The org variable holds the value of the folder name. The problem is that the header is sending out ".$org." and not the actual value of $org.

Example output url: http://127.0.0.1/application/".$org."/display/trackingboard.php

I want this url if the value is test: http://127.0.0.1/application/test/display/trackingboard.php

Thanks!

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$org = "test";
header('Location: ../application/".$org."/display/trackingboard.php');

i am trying to make a page to upload music to my website and add the information of the songs into a database, but i cannot get php to let me upload a file bigger than 2mb even after i went into the php.ini and changed the max_upload_size and a few others to 99mb.
So i was wondering if i could put my music in a folder on my website and pull the data from the items in the folder and make database entries(probably doubtful) or if i could get some help with getting php to upload bigger files?

thanks,
Adam

Hello, I never dealt with such a feature before but I found a small script online that I am editing that works just fine.  The problem is that it includes all of the directories in the path of my site in the zip.  So if the path of my webhost is:

/home/bob/files/

the zip will create a folder such as

/home (inside that folder) /bob (inside that folder) /files (then the zipped files I wanted).

I just want the zip files and I did store them out of the www/public_html directory to prevent people from downloading the files directly from the web but is there no way to make it not include all of those directories in the zip and only show the files?  If so I will post the code that I have.  Thanks

I'm a little confused with the use of absolute paths in PHP.  I've always used relative paths but it's becoming an issue with some of the apps I'm working with and absolute would solve the problem.

The thing is, I'm getting different results in different places and I'm a little confused.

With regular HTML I seem to be able to use / as the root of my site.  So if I do the following...

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<img src="/images/name.jpg" />
That works fine no matter what page it's called from in the site and no matter what directory that page is in.  I need to be able to do that same thing with PHP.

Now, in my custom 404 page I have the following...

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if($AddressURL == 'http://www.domain.com/blog/files/filename.zip')
{
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: /download/filename.zip');
exit();
}

That actually works just fine. If I go to the /blog/files/filename.zip (which doesn't exist) in a web browser it winds up downloading the file at www.domain.com/download/filename.zip as expected. 

Now where I get confused is that include files don't seem to work like that with PHP.  If I do this...

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require_once('/includes/config.php');

That winds up looking for an /includes folder all the way back at the local server root, not just the web root.  so it's looking for /var/includes instead of /var/www/includes and of course that doesn't end up working.

So, how come the include file paths work differently than regular HTML paths or header redirects in PHP?  Is there any simple way I can always refer to the SITE root no matter what server it's running from?  I've tried playing with $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] but it only seems to return the root of the current document, not the root of the whole site.  So if I use it within a php file located in /var/www/includes/test.php it considers /includes the root which is not what I want.

Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

I have a web site with a user login requirement that has worked splendidly for months.  I also have a development version of my site on my laptop, localhost.  At the moment, I have identical code on both the development and production sites.  I'm getting some header error in production, but not on development.

Is it guaranteed that my page is generating some white space, or is it possible that there may be another issue at hand (I'm fairly non-technical, so I'm grasping here - my web host upgraded to a different PHP version that is creating whitespace in production while development on my laptop is a different version of php, my web host has done something else that is causing this, fill in the blank with your own conspiracy theory)?  Any reading material out there (besides the php.net manual) that explores what may be going on?

Thanks in advance - this community has been wonderfully helpful for me over the last year!

Hi:

Does this header redirection:
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header("Location: http://www.WebSite.com/Page.php");

Happen on the server, and then get sent to the browser, or is it something that happens on the users computer?

This may sound like a very stupid question, but I can't find a clear answer anywhere.

I'm making my first dive in OOP and all the tutorials only really show basic usage. They define a class, and show how to use it in a file.

My question is how does it work to use an object throughout a program? Is it available everywhere or do I store things in sessions and start a new object on each page?

For example: logging in a user. If I created an instance after confirming the credentials, would that same instance be available for use in say index.php, or would I just pass a session over and create a new instance on each page?

Again, sorry if this seems dumb to some people.

Hi there!

I'm not sure which section this questions belongs in however, it seems to fit well in PHP.

Basically, I'm using this link to directly log me into the cPanel webmail:

http://website.com:2095/login?user=email@website.com&pass=123

Which would log me into webmail with the details as:
username: email@website.com
password: 123

This works perfectly on FireFox, but on Internet Explorer, the popup login box still occurs.

Why is this?

Thanks