mullet — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 13:31:50 +0000

i just need any way to rename the file either by adding the username to file like user_image.file_type or just a random code like 45h78s760i87.gif. i still using the code above

any help please..

mullet — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:12:59 +0000

i would get it by using time..

<?php
 echo date("mHiyd");
?>

thanks again for your help..

Busy — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:03:53 +0000

depends where the 768946975 comes from, is it the user's id, time, random number ...

http://php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php

mullet — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:30:19 +0000

hi i used something similar but one problem i have is if a user uploads a file with the same name as an existing file it other writes.. how can the you change the names so the file name is like 768946975.jpg instead of me.jpg?

the code i use is

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<?php
 $target_path = "images1/";

$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    echo "<b>The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded</b>";
} else{
    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
} 
?>

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the images1/ is the upload directory. the user then fills out title and description in a form and things like date, file id are hidden fields with echo of necessary info.

any help would be grateful

thanks Mullet

iTEAM.net — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:10:13 +0000

Here's a free script you can try:
http://tech.tailoredweb.com/simple-upload-53.php
Filesize limits will depend on your hosts php.ini.

Busy — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:10:46 +0000

You'll need some server side code ideally (PHP, ASP, CF etc)

HTML can create the form but not the transfer or validation of the upload. Then you may also need a database to store the uploaded file names etc.

Does your host allow server side scripting? If so which.