Difference between revisions of "PHP-and-MySQL/C4/File-Upload-Part-1/English-timed"

|The method is set to '''POST'''. The reason for this is that we don't need to store it in a GET variable.

|And also there is a hundred character limit on our GET variable.

|So you’ll have a very small file if you have only hundred bits of data.

|It's enctype, encoding type which means how we are going to encode this.   

|It will be multi-part and we need a forward slash and then its form data.

|In short this means that we're submitting this form in the form of data - that is, binary data - zeroes and ones which I mentioned earlier over here.

|Okay so we've got the type this is going to be encoded to. We'll end our form here.   

|We'll need some elements inside as input for our file.

|This type is set to file and we'll call it myfile to be specific.

|Okay - paragraph break here and then all we need is a submit button,

|Okay so lets just preview this. Lets close this off.  

|Click file upload. Oh - lets go back.  Input - I typed 2 'u's here.   

|Lets go back. You can see here we got our input here.

|I can make it browse. We can see we got a selection of files which we can upload.

|Okay - so lets make it more user friendly for you and me.   

|Upload a file. And lets refresh that.  Okay so we've got a nice page here.  

|We've got our header and possibility to upload a file here. Also can be manually typed in here if needed.  

|And also we have an upload button which submits to our upload dot php.

|Fine. So inside upload dot php we need a way of processing this file which has been submitted from our form.   

|The way to do this is by using dollar underscore FILES. This isn't actually right.

|When we do and I click on upload, we can see we just get Array. That's because this is an array.

|Since this is a multidimensional array, in the first set of brackets we'll type the name of the file that we have uploaded and the name of the input box from which it came from - that is myfile.  

|So we'll use myfile here.  And in the second one we can have a variety of properties and the simplest and most easy one to think about is the name of the file.

|So lets go back to the upload form and lets choose intro dot avi.  It will be displayed here.   

|Lets click upload and on the next page we see intro dot avi.   

|Remember this is in our upload dot php form, file sorry.

|Okay so that's that. Let me just save this to a variable.  

|So this is dollar underscore files and we'll use the myname reference.

|And inside here we'll have the type.  So that's type or rather we'll echo this out so you can see.  

|And it's refresh. Re-send that and see that now - myfile.  

|Right re-send that and we can see there's a video slash avi.  You may have seen this somewhere before in html.  

|For example - this can be image slash png or image slash jpeg, image slash bmp , video slash avi and video slash mpeg or some other format.

|At the moment we can see from here that it is an avi file so therefore that's what we get in 'type'.

|So we can say type equals all of this.  

|The next one I'll show you is the size.  So to save time what I'll do is - I'll copy this code,paste it here and change this type to size and echo it out.

|You can see it's quite simple to get e-property of the file you submit.   

|I'll refresh this page and click resend and we can get the size of the file.

|Now lets say we round this off to about a million - a million bytes is in fact a....,

|Sorry, a million bits is a megabyte. myfile is actually a mega byte.  

|So we've got a million megabyte of data here.   

|So lets save that in a variable called size. Ok?

|This is written slightly differently as tmp abbreviated to temp and underscore and name.

|So lets refresh this page.

|Click on Resend and you can see that that's stored into an xampp cause I'm using this application  

|But if you're using an apache you can store php yourself.   

|You can see that this is a randomly generated name that has a tmp extension.

|So we can save that as temp file or temp.  Lets type 'temp' in order to keep it short.

|And the last one is 'error'. Now this will basically echo out a zero if everything is clear.

|Again copy-paste and change that to error.  

|And let's say we'll store this in a variable called error.

|Okay that's all for now.  In the second part of this tutorial I'll show you how to upload your file by moving it from the temporary storage area to a specified area of your choice.  

|And what we'll do is we'll use this variable error to see if there are any errors.

|If there are errors, then we'll echo it out and use the error code.  

|If not we'll take this temp and we'll use a specific function called 'move uploaded' file and we'll take that and store it in our uploaded directory created on my web server here.

|And then after that I'll take you through some specifics to say - is this a jpeg? Yes then disallow jpeg image being uploaded or disallow specific file size.

|Okay so tune in to Part-2. Thanks for watching. This is Joshua Mathew dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.