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AnchovyLegend
AnchovyLegend

Reputation: 12538

Getting full file path of a clients file using a file dialog box

I am trying to allow users to upload pictures to the server.

I am trying to create a similar system to any website that has an 'attach' file or 'upload image' feature. All I need is to get the full path of the file select by the file dialog.

I tried using this for the file dialog with no success:

<input type="file">

This method does not provide the full file path, due to security reasons. My question is how can I create a similar input dialog to websites like tinypic, photobucket, etc.. that can help users input the full file path of a given image, into an input field?

I am aware that this cannot be done using the method above for security reasons, however, I have seen this done before on various websites without any problems, I was wondering what I had to do to implement a similar file dialog that helps fill in the text, which is a full file path, of an input field?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 11300

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 7452

It is not possible to get the file full path on local machine using browser and javascript.

However, as you would like to upload the file to the server, the easy possibility I see is to use html form with input type file. You will receive the file on your http server when the form is submitted.

Here is a very good url http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/file.html that explains the whole process nicely.

Upvotes: 3

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