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kamelkid2
kamelkid2

Reputation: 534

PHP display contents of user uploaded file after submit (preferably without mySQL)

<html>
    <title>TestUploader</title>
    <body>

        <?php
            if (isset($_POST['Submit1'])) { 
                //display contents of file that was uploaded
            }
        ?>

        <form name="form1" method="POST" action="testupload.php">
            <div>
                Upload A File 
                <br />
                <input type="file" name="UserFile" size="50"/> 
                <br /> 
                <input type="submit" value="Upload" name="Submit1"/>
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

What I am trying to do (and not really finding anything online in terms of examples) is have the user upload a file on their local machine and have PHP read it back to me.

In terms of the actual conditions within my project, it will be a CSV file that I would like to put into an array - but I can't figure out how to do this even with a simple txt file with contents 'hello world'

how i have it constructed in my mind is through POST but i am very novice at php at the moment and do not know if there is a better practice. Could anybody give me guidance or a resource for what i am trying to do? I would prefer to not use MySQL simply because I do not know MySQL yet and am trying to not learn too many things at once and the rest of my project currently does not use it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2538

Answers (4)

Pundit
Pundit

Reputation: 229

Here's the code you can try

  if (isset($_POST['Submit1'])) { 

  if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['UserFile']['tmp_name'])) {
        echo "<h1>" . "File ". $_FILES['UserFile']['name'] ." uploaded successfully." . "</h1>";
        echo "<h2>Displaying contents:</h2>";
        readfile($_FILES['UserFile']['tmp_name']);
  }     
}

Upvotes: 2

Saqueib
Saqueib

Reputation: 3520

Here are two good reads to solve your problem

  1. To upload File http://community.sitepoint.com/t/how-to-upload-a-csv-file-using-php/6270/9
  2. Parse it in a way you want https://github.com/parsecsv/parsecsv-for-php

Upvotes: 2

Lajos Arpad
Lajos Arpad

Reputation: 76601

Use $_FILE["UploadFile"] at your server. This is not related to MySQL, as MySQL is an RDBMS where you store data. File upload itself is unrelated to MySQL, you can store things in a database though. See more here.

Upvotes: 0

chaos505
chaos505

Reputation: 496

your form needs to send enctype="multipart/form-data" and you need to look for $_FILES.

have a look at the tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

Upvotes: 1

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