indushyd
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Multiple File Upload
How to upload multiple files at a time?
In details...
A page contain one html editor. It facilitates user to create a page according to his requirement. Obiviously it may contains more than one image files which i want to upload at a time while submitting the page.
Note:- The html editor contain only the text. So there will not be any <FILE> for browsing. Only the image physical path will be present e.g.
<IMG src="c:\images\a.gif" align=left>
<IMG src="c:\images\b.gif" align=center>
<IMG src="c:\images\c.gif" align=right>
In details...
A page contain one html editor. It facilitates user to create a page according to his requirement. Obiviously it may contains more than one image files which i want to upload at a time while submitting the page.
Note:- The html editor contain only the text. So there will not be any <FILE> for browsing. Only the image physical path will be present e.g.
<IMG src="c:\images\a.gif" align=left>
<IMG src="c:\images\b.gif" align=center>
<IMG src="c:\images\c.gif" align=right>
For more possibilities check here; http://hotscripts.com/ASP/Scripts_and_Components/File_Manipulation/Upload_Systems/
While most of these are free, remember that they are components and must be installed on your server, if you need a solution that has no components look into Pure ASP Upload.
While most of these are free, remember that they are components and must be installed on your server, if you need a solution that has no components look into Pure ASP Upload.
Here is another excellent component, even the samples has a multiple image upload script already done! :-)
http://www.websupergoo.com/abcupload-1.htm
http://www.websupergoo.com/abcupload-1.htm
Software Artisans SAFileUp is excellent, though you'll have to pay for it. It has a vary easy multiple file upload component. If you name your form's file input boxes the same thing, it's even easier.
Just do a simple For Each file in objFileUp.FormEx("Files").
Just do a simple For Each file in objFileUp.FormEx("Files").
I have provided a complete script and download for file uploads using plain vanilla server-side VBScript.
You need not install any components to use the script.
You will find the script under ASP section of my website, http://www.shastrynet.com/
Good luck...
You need not install any components to use the script.
You will find the script under ASP section of my website, http://www.shastrynet.com/
Good luck...
shastry_yedavalli, it is an accepted practice here at EE to not lock a Q by submitting an answer to this type of question, one that can have many answers...
While your suggestion is a viable solution, I see every preceding comment as a solution also. I do not see in your examples any method of uploading multiple files, plus you even state that your method can be a security hole. Plus you even state that your method is not complete, what's up with that?
This is not a viable answer...
While your suggestion is a viable solution, I see every preceding comment as a solution also. I do not see in your examples any method of uploading multiple files, plus you even state that your method can be a security hole. Plus you even state that your method is not complete, what's up with that?
This is not a viable answer...
ASKER
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Are you talking about physically uploading a file from the users machine, or are they selecting a file already on the server?
If you want the user to select one of their local files, but you don't want to send this file to the server, you have NO CHANCE!!!
That's the whole thing with server/client relationships. If the client is not itself a server, then anyone else trying to access that image will be prevented.
If it's a file on the server that the user chooses, then that's not uploading you're looking at, but rather writing the path of the image (on the server) into your database.
So to summarise:
If you want to use images on the clients machine, those images wil have to be "uploaded" (with a file field) to the server.
If you're selecting images off the server, then look at using the FileSystemObject to select the imag in question, kind of like a windows explorer type-thing, where the user can open directories and select the images they want.
If you want the user to select one of their local files, but you don't want to send this file to the server, you have NO CHANCE!!!
That's the whole thing with server/client relationships. If the client is not itself a server, then anyone else trying to access that image will be prevented.
If it's a file on the server that the user chooses, then that's not uploading you're looking at, but rather writing the path of the image (on the server) into your database.
So to summarise:
If you want to use images on the clients machine, those images wil have to be "uploaded" (with a file field) to the server.
If you're selecting images off the server, then look at using the FileSystemObject to select the imag in question, kind of like a windows explorer type-thing, where the user can open directories and select the images they want.
ASKER
Yah!, I am talking about physically uploading a file from the users machine. In my script there is no file object present, only the file path that also i am finding programatically.
Right. You WILL needa file-upload component, or use the free do-it-yourself one available at https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qShow.jsp?ta=asp&qid=20184197
Then you have to send those files from the Client to the Server, at which point the server then saves the files to a local directory and writes that path to the database.
If you're thinking about me as a user selecting a file "D:\user\temp\something.do
check out any of the above suggestions. We know what you're trying to do, and these are the ways of doing it.
Then you have to send those files from the Client to the Server, at which point the server then saves the files to a local directory and writes that path to the database.
If you're thinking about me as a user selecting a file "D:\user\temp\something.do
check out any of the above suggestions. We know what you're trying to do, and these are the ways of doing it.
If on my file system, I have a file C:\something\something\tes
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indushyd, what do you mean "no answer found", what you request is simple if yo ujust think about it. Look at this example;
This file create a page that has 2 file upload boxes,
<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="imageupload.asp" enctype="multipart/form-da
<input type="file" name="image1"><br>
<input type="file" name="image2"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
<body>
</html>
And this file processes the files;
<% @Language="VBScript" %>
<%
Set theForm = Server.CreateObject("ABCUp
theForm.Overwrite = True
Set theField = theForm("image1")(1)
If theField.FileExists Then theField.Save theField.FileName
Set theField = theForm("image2")(1)
If theField.FileExists Then theField.Save theField.FileName
%>
<html>
<body>
Images uploaded...
</body>
</html>
The above example uses the ABCUpload component found at http://www.websupergoo.com/abcupload-1.htm It really doesn't get any easier than this. You can change the file name, change the path, just about anything... read the docs.
It doesn't get any simpler, really.
This thread has gone on long enough for only 50 points.
This file create a page that has 2 file upload boxes,
<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="imageupload.asp" enctype="multipart/form-da
<input type="file" name="image1"><br>
<input type="file" name="image2"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
<body>
</html>
And this file processes the files;
<% @Language="VBScript" %>
<%
Set theForm = Server.CreateObject("ABCUp
theForm.Overwrite = True
Set theField = theForm("image1")(1)
If theField.FileExists Then theField.Save theField.FileName
Set theField = theForm("image2")(1)
If theField.FileExists Then theField.Save theField.FileName
%>
<html>
<body>
Images uploaded...
</body>
</html>
The above example uses the ABCUpload component found at http://www.websupergoo.com/abcupload-1.htm It really doesn't get any easier than this. You can change the file name, change the path, just about anything... read the docs.
It doesn't get any simpler, really.
This thread has gone on long enough for only 50 points.
Yeah, but indushyd wants to NOT have a file upload form field, he wants to have text fields, and he wants these to send files from the client to the server, without uploading them!!!
Hmmm, I'm thinking things aren't quite going to happen like this, are they? :-)
Hmmm, I'm thinking things aren't quite going to happen like this, are they? :-)
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