Retaining input - file upload in HTML

I have a problem that someone must have faced before.

I need to allow a file upload and retain the path and name of the file
as provided by the user. However, that info is not passed by the
browser to PHP. The name alone is not enough and the temp path is
useless in this context. Are there any convenient workarounds?

Mike

Michael Daly wrote:
> I have a problem that someone must have faced before.
>
> I need to allow a file upload and retain the path and name of the file
> as provided by the user. However, that info is not passed by the
> browser to PHP. The name alone is not enough and the temp path is
> useless in this context. Are there any convenient workarounds?
>
> Mike

There may be another way, but I've never tried before, so here is
something I knocked up quickly that will do what you want as long as you
don't mind some 'javascript' 'onsubmit' of the form. It takes the
local directory/filename from the file input box before submission and
copies it into a hidden input, which you can then read on the PHP side.

<?php
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]=="POST") {
echo $_POST["localfile"];
}
?>
<form action="index.php"
method="post"
enctype="multipart/form-data"
onsubmit="javascript: document.getElementById('localfile').value
= document.getElementById('myfile').value; return true;">

<input type="file" id="myfile" name="myfile" value="" />
<input type="hidden" id="localfile" name="localfile" value="" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

Tyno Gendo wrote:

> There may be another way, but I've never tried before, so here is
> something I knocked up quickly that will do what you want as long as you
> don't mind some 'javascript' 'onsubmit' of the form.

Thanks! I'll use this.

I haven't found anything other than another Javascript example very much
like yours (though yours is simpler). From what I've read, it seems
that a client-side approach is the only way to do this.

Mike