Can I attach data gathered by a form to a file that is being uploaded?
- by Jacob
I need customers to upload files to my website and I want to gather their name or company name and attach it to the file name or create a folder on the server with that as the name so we can keep the files organized. Using PHP to upload file
PHP:
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$target = "upload/";
$file_name = $_FILES['file']['name'];
$tmp_dir = $_FILES ['file']['tmp_name'];
try{
if(!preg_match('/(jpe?g|psd|ai|eps|zip|rar|tif?f|pdf)$/i', $file_name))
{
throw new Exception("Wrong File Type");
exit;
}
move_uploaded_file($tmp_dir, $target . $file_name);
$status = true;
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
$fail = true;
}
}
Other PHPw/form:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="post">
input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1073741824" />
label for="file">Choose File to Upload </label> <br />input name="file" type="file" id="file" size="50" maxlength="50" /><br />
input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload" />
php
if(isset($status)) {
$yay = "alert-success";
echo "<div class=\"$yay\">
<br/>
<h2>Thank You!</h2>
<p>File Upload Successful!</p></div>";
}
if(isset($fail)) {
$boo = "alert-error";
echo "<div class=\"$boo\">
<br/>
<h2>Sorry...</h2>
<p>There was a problem uploading the file.</p><br/><p>Please make sure that you are trying to upload a file that is less than 50mb and an acceptable file type.</p></div>";
}
