File Uploading-using PHP | Learning Curve- Perfect Tutorial for the beginers

Below code will do the fileuploading.

<html>
<head>
<title>File Uploading</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="fileupload.php" method="post"                      enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file" size="50" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

<html>

<head>

<title>File Uploading</title>

</head>

<body>

</form>

</body>

</html>

we have to add the below function into the fileupload.php

bool move_uploaded_file ( string $filename , string $destination );

Fileupload.php

<?
if(isset($_FILES['Upload'])){
$target = "galleries/".basename($_FILES['file']['name']) ;


if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],$target)); 

}


?>

if(isset($_FILES['Upload'])){

$target = "galleries/".basename($_FILES['file']['name']) ;

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],$target));

}

if you want store other information related to that particular file just use the following supergloabal array

$_FILES[‘file’][‘tmp_name’]- the uploaded file in the temporary directory on the web server.

$_FILES[‘file’][‘name’] – the actual name of the uploaded file.

$_FILES[‘file’][‘size’] – the size in bytes of the uploaded file.

$_FILES[‘file’][‘type’] – the MIME type of the uploaded file.

$_FILES[‘file’][‘error’] – the error code associated with this file upload.

Note:Temporary directory name for storing files and size of the files are setting using php.ini

upload_tmp_dir
upload_max_filesize