Submitting text and uploaded files

PHP
1

I’m trying to figure out how to allow users to be able to input text and also allow them to attach pictures before submitting. It’s exactly like composing a gmail; you append pictures, input some body text, and send it to the user. i’m trying to do the same, but keep on getting an undefined index: uploadedfile.


<?php
/* This script adds a blog entry to the database. */
 include('inc/header.inc');
 include('inc/menu.inc'); 

$msg = "";
require_once('inc/config.inc'); //Include the configuration file for error management and such.

if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { //Handle the form.

	require_once ('scripts/mysql_connect.php'); //Connect to the database.

	//Validate the form data:
	if(!empty($_POST['name'])) {
		$n = escape_data($_POST['name']);
		$msg = "";
	} else {
		$n = FALSE;
		$msg .= '<p><font color="red" size="1">Please enter a name!</font></p>';
	} 

	if (!empty($_POST['title']) && (!empty($_POST['entry']))) {
		$t = mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['title']));
		$e = mysql_real_escape_string(trim($_POST['entry']));
		$msg ="";
	} else {
		$msg .= '<p><font color="red" size="1">Please submit both a title and an entry.</font></p>';
		$t = FALSE;
		$e = FALSE;
	}
$uploadDir = 'members/' .$n. '/';

	if($n && $t && $e) {
		//Define the query:
		$query = "INSERT INTO stories(name, title, entry, date_entered) VALUES ('$n', '$t', '$e', NOW())";
		
				    mkdir("members/$n", 0755); // Create directory(folder) to hold each user's files(pics, MP3s, etc.)	
					
$fileName = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name'];
$tmpName = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'];
$fileSize = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['size'];
$fileType = $_FILES['uploadedfile']['type'];

$filePath = $uploadDir . basename($fileName);

if (move_uploaded_file($tmpName, $filePath)) {
    echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). 
    " has been uploaded";
} else{
    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";

exit;
}
	
	//Execute the query:
	if(@mysql_query($query)) { $msg .= '<p><font color="blue" size="2">The blog entry has been added!</font></p>';
	} else {
		print '<p style="color: red;">Could not add the entry because:<br/>' . mysql_error() . ' .</p><p>The query being run was: ' . $query . '</p>';
	}
} // No problem!

	mysql_close();

} //End of form submission IF.
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="Instant " content="" />
<link href="default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
</head>
<body>

<div id="wrapper">
<!-- start page -->
<div id="page">
	<!-- start content -->
	<div id="content">
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
<p>Your name: <input type="text" name="name" size="30" maxsize="50" /></p>
<p>Entry title: <input type="text" name="title" size="30" maxsize="100" /></p>

<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" id="uploadedfile"/><br /><br />

<textarea name="entry" cols="75" rows="15"></textarea><br /><br />
<div align="right"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Post This Entry!" id="submit"/></div>
<?php print "$msg"; ?>
</form>
		</div>
	</div>
	<!-- end content -->
	<div style="clear: both;">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<!-- end page -->
</div>
<?php include('inc/footer.inc'); ?>
</body>
</html>
2

I didn’t read all your code, but I did find one big error.


<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

Change to this:


<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
3

thanks jeremy for the reply! the file upload works great now, but i have another problem. when there is no file being upload and i hit submit, the text doesn’t go into the database.

4

I would say your problem is here:


if (move_uploaded_file($tmpName, $filePath)) {

    echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). 

    " has been uploaded";

} else{

    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";


exit;

}

Removing the exit; will sort the problem ?

You may need to rethink your logic or do different things in a different order; this is where a simple upload file starts to explode in size !

5

thanks rubble for the response, but removing exit didn’t resolve anything.

i wonder, does anyone know where i can find codes like composing an email where users can input text and also upload files because that is essentially what i’m trying to do.

6

Sweet, I got it to work properly now. Turns out I needed to reorder the structure. So, here is the code that I modified:


    if($n && $t && $e) { 
        //Define the query: 
        $query = "INSERT INTO stories(name, title, entry, date_entered) VALUES ('$n', '$t', '$e', NOW())"; 
         			
    //Execute the query: 
    if(@mysql_query($query)) { $msg .= '<p><font color="blue" size="2">The blog entry has been added!</font></p>'; 
    } else { 
        print '<p style="color: red;">Could not add the entry because:<br/>' . mysql_error() . ' .</p><p>The query being run was: ' . $query . '</p>'; 
    }
	
	if(!empty($_FILES['uploadedfile'])) {         
		mkdir("members/$n", 0755); // Create directory(folder) to hold each user's files(pics, MP3s, etc.)     
		include('upload_file.php');				
	}
} 

    mysql_close(); 

} //End of form submission IF.