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Upload A File To A PHP Script... And Also Pass A Posted Value....

OK, heres the deal.

I need to upload a file to a webserver. This file is going to be a .gif file, not larger then 14.5kb.

Now, along with uploading this file, i will need to POST a value to the PHP script i wish to use called "USER" (IE: User=MrBob),

Now, how can i upload this image to my webserver, using a .php file as the server-side part, along with the username?

I dont mind using other controls for this [however i would prefer not to use the webbrowser control, as i want to be able to limit the file types to just gif etc in my application, and i need to upload this image practically on load of the application, as "Invisible" as possible.

BTW: I know how to handle the file once it is passed to the PHP Script, etc to copy it from my upload temp directory to a proper file etc :)

Thanks Guys.
Wayne

tkalchev

Here is a log of a POST action. It is posting to a php script post.php the following :

Variable, called text1 with value 77
A GIF file (eche.gif).

///------------------- Starting here ----------------------------

POST /post.php HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Opera 7.11 [en]
Host: localhost
Accept: text/html, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, */*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en;q=1.0
Accept-Charset: windows-1252, utf-8, utf-16, iso-8859-1;q=0.6, *;q=0.1
Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, x-gzip, identity, *;q=0
Connection: Keep-Alive, TE
TE: deflate, gzip, chunked, identity, trailers
Content-length: 712
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo

------------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="MAX_FILE_SIZE"

1000
------------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file1"; filename="eche.gif"
Content-Type: image/gif

GIF89a

------------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text1"

77
------------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="upload_file"

Upload!
------------ZcpvRS7HNeFzxVsIlOwdUo--

///-----------------END----------------

So, you must build a request like this and send it to the port 80 of your web server.

tkalchev

Just noticed, to have the data from your example, replace

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text1"

77

with

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="User"

MrBob

tkalchev

Note, that

GIF89a

Should be the binary dump of your Gif file.

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