<input type="file"> change where file gets uploaded?

[Mark]

Hi,

So, from my understanding, when you use <input type="file"> your file
gets uploaded to some temporary folder...

But is there a way to change where it gets uploaded?

On my web server, all sites share the same temp folder..so I want to it
to upload somewhere on *my* site.


Thanks

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

So, from my understanding, when you use <input type="file"> your file
gets uploaded to some temporary folder...

But is there a way to change where it gets uploaded?

On my web server, all sites share the same temp folder..so I want to it
to upload somewhere on *my* site.

That's a server-side issue. HTML doesn't know or care how your server
processes uploaded data.

Since you haven't told us what server-side technology is handling the
upload, we can't tell you how to configure it.

 

[Mark]

That's a server-side issue. HTML doesn't know or care how your server
processes uploaded data.

Since you haven't told us what server-side technology is handling the
upload, we can't tell you how to configure it.

Ah... I was told I could do something like <input
type="public_html/folder/file"> but... that didn't strike me as right.

However, apparently it can be set in php.ini (since I am using php
anyways...)

 

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Ah... I was told I could do something like <input
type="public_html/folder/file"> but... that didn't strike me as right.

However, apparently it can be set in php.ini (since I am using php
anyways...)

Since you're using PHP, check the manual:
http://php.net/features.file-upload

 

[jojo]

However, apparently it can be set in php.ini (since I am using php
anyways...)

If you have acces to it. But this isn't always the case. Some webhosters
do not givew you acces to it because of security reasons. They perhaps
block some PHP-functions which they consider to be a security problem
and do not want them to get activated again (Just one example, there are
a lot more).
But a way that would always work is to copy the temporary file into your
directory:

copy ($_FILES['NAME_OF_YOUR_INPUT']['tmp_name'],
"PATH_TO_YOUR_DIRECTORY".$_FILES['NAME_OF_YOUR_INPUT']['name']);

HTH, jojo