Uploading file using html and php

uploading file in php

HTML Part

create a html form that contain the file upload input, Like the one one below.


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
  <label>Select image to upload:<label><br>
  <input type="file" name="fileName" id="">
  <input type="submit" value="Upload File" name="upload">
</form>

</body>
</html>

note: add enctype="multipart/form-data" to the form attribute, to specify the content-type

PHP Part

Create upload.php file and add the PHP code below to it.


<?php

if(isset($_POST["upload"])) {
$image_dir = "image/"; //folder to store the file
$image_file = $image_dir . basename($_FILES["fileName"]["name"]); //directory of the file with the file name
  if (($_FILES["fileName"]["size"] < 500000)&&($_FILES["fileName"]["size"] >0)) { //check if file is between 1kb and 50GB size
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileName"]["tmp_name"], $image _file)) { // store the file on the server
      echo "file upload successful";
    } else {
      echo "there was an error uploading your file.";
    }
  } else {
    echo "file size is too small/big";

  }
}
?>

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