I'm using two computers (both connected to one network) and one of them has XAMPP. I'm trying to upload files to the one with XAMPP in it (the files are from the other computer). But I always end up having the 'No such file or directory' error even though I have the correct path. But when I use the path from the computer with XAMPP, even when I'm using the other computer, the system works just fine. Can anyone help me?
P.S. I'm using PHP copy() function because the file path is coming from an excel file.
Here's the part of my PHP code:
$original_file_name = objWorksheet->getCellByColumnAndRow(5,$i)->getValue();
// Example of the cell value: C:\Users\ComputerWithoutXAMPP\Desktop\scanned documents\SO 2010\#1.jpeg
$ext = pathinfo($original_file_name, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
$file = time().substr(md5(microtime()),rand(0,26),5);
// UPLOAD THE FILE DECLARED IN EXCEL
copy($original_file_name, 'uploads/docs/'.$file.'.'.$ext);
You can use copy() to upload a file to another machine, or from another machine, but to access the remote machine, the appropriate argument to copy (source or dest) has to be a URL. The code you've posted is trying to copy the file to a local "uploads/docs/" directory, it's doesn't even appear to aware of another machine.
While what you're looking to do may be technically possible, I haven't the foggiest idea how you'd go about it: it seems rather Rube Goldberg to me. The ftp:// wrapper would probably work, if FTP is set up properly on the XAMPP server.
How big is the file you're trying to send? If it's small enough, you may have better luck either encoding and sending the content itself or uploading the file with curl to an upload-catching script on the XAMPP side
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i have GoDaddy shared webspace with FTP access that contains a folder with images. These images are changing every day.
Im looking for advice on what i need to do to get these images onto my server in the workplace, maybe every hour or so. The server doesnt have IIS installed is there any other way to do this?
Am i able to do a PHP script that can put all the images onto the server using the ip or something?
I had the same issue as I had two images on a remote server which I needed to copy to my local server at a predefined time each day and this is the code I was able to come up with...
try {
if(#copy('url/to/source/image.ext', 'local/absolute/path/on/server/' . date("d-m-Y") . ".gif")) {
} else {
$errors = error_get_last();
throw new Exception($errors['type'] . " - " . $errors['message']);
};
} catch(Exception $e) {
//An Error Occurred Downloading The Requested Image
//Place exception handling code here
};
I then created a cron job which ran this file on a daily basis but you would be able to run is as frequently as you needed to based on how frequently the source image changes on the source server.
A few points to explain the code...
As the code is run in the background I use the # symbol to silence visual references to any errors which occur with the copy command as they won't be viewable anyway. Instead if copy results in an error it returns false and triggers throwing a new exception which takes the error type and error message and throws a new exception for it which can then be handled in the catch block and can be actioned however you need such as making a local log entry, sending an error email, whatever you need.
As the second paramater in the copy command you will see that the path results in the filename being named based on the current date. This name can be anything but needs to be unique in the destination for it to work. If you plan on overwritting the image each time the copy is done then you can statically code the name as the same name but if you want to maintain a history then you would need to come up with a file naming solution on your local server to ensure that the files don't get overwritten each time the cron runs.
The first parameter of the copy statement has been written on the assumption that the source image file is named the same each time, if the name changes the you will need to identify how the naming is achieved and code a variable to build that name and insert it as the source filename.
This code does not alter the format of the source image file so to ensure no corruption occurs and the image can still be shown after the copy you need to ensure that the source image file and the local copy of the image file have the same file extensions, so if the source image file is a .gif file then you need to make sure the file extension in the second copy parameter is also set to .gif
I'll try to answer here instead of continuing the comment-spam ;)
you got your webspace with FTP access. let's just call it webspace;
then you got your server at your workplace. let's just call it workplace;
after all you need one server (also can be webspace for example) where you are able to run PHP. let's call it php-server;
step 1
at the workplace setup a FTP server, for example FileZilla. you setup your FTP server so that you can connect to it. so make an account and set it up so you can access the folder(s) where you want to save your images. also make sure you got access from outside your workplace - firewall settings etc.
step 2
if you can run your PHP scripts on your webspace this would be the easiest way. you can directly access the image files, establish a connection to your FTP server at workplace and upload the files.
if the PHP server is somewhere else, you have to establish a connection from the php-server to your webspace; download your files to your php-server; upload your files to the FTP server at your workplace.
will be a bit of work as you can see, but should be possible to do.
Create a .bat file that uses the ftp command line functions to get the data you want from the server. Save that .bat file somewhere and create a Scheduled Task to run the script every hour.
You can even store the actual sequence of ftp commands in a separate file (e.g. ftpcmd.dat) and call them from the script
ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.dat SERVERNAME.COM
Example ftp command file:
user MyUserName
Password
bin
cd \your\path\images
mget * C:\Temp\
quit
I have a site for media conversion where users can upload video, audio or image files and it is converted in to 3 popular formats. Conversion script works fine but I am having some issues with the tmp directory where the files get uploaded to. I have tried 2 scenarios I am fine with either but neither works and it seems to me to be permissions related but I can seem to fix the problem.
I am working locally right now while I work out the kinks.
Scenario 1:
File is uploaded to default local tmp directory (C:\WINDOWS\tmp) - works fine
Attempt to run conversion script using tmp file that was uploaded and it doesn't work - run from command line works perfectly fine though
Scenario 2:
File is uploaded to directory I have given IIS_IUSRS full control of (for testing) and file won't upload - yes the directory is spelt correctly (I changed the upload_tmp_dir value in php.ini)
Both the site the javascript that send the XMLHttpRequest to the PHP file, as well as the site the PHP file itself reside on are IIS sites so I assume the script is being run as IIS_IUSRS.
EDIT: Temp file is no longer being created at all for Scenario 1, can't figure out why I am assuming playing with permission messed something up because the code hasn't changed. I've given Modify to IIS_USRS and USERS to try and get it working again but no luck :( although the error log is still writing to the same folder...weird
NOTE: The "tmp_name" value of the $_FILES variable I am sending still has a value of "C:\WINDOWS\Temp\'filename'" but the file is not there
EDIT: Another new development, it appears it is NOT a permissions issue because I can create a temp file via $temp_file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'Test'); however it obviously does not contain the uploaded data so it does not solve my problem
PHP is ignoring the upload_tmp_dir because of one setting on APPLICATION POOLS.
It's not php-cgi.exe nor php.ini or a permissions issue.
Go to the application pool of the website experiencing the issue:
1. right click
2. select advanced settings
3. scroll to LOAD USER PROFILE and set it to FALSE.
that did the trick for me.
This is less of a problem solved and more of a workaround. The issue seems to be something with the
$_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
When I echo the contents it looks as I expect however no file appears. So rather than taking advantage of that process that happens naturally, I have had to take a manual approach. What I have done is the following:
create a temp file
$temp_file = tempnam(ini_get('upload_tmp_dir'), 'php');
then add the content from the temp file created during the $_POST request. (which some how are in the $_FILES variable even though the file is not when I look in the directory)
file_put_contents($temp_file, file_get_contents($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']));
the I have my temporary file for processing.
I have searched everywhere but didn't got a perfect answer.
I am using WAMP to run PHP on local machine. I have an tag to accept file from local machine and have to upload this to FTP server.
My code is working perfectly fine but only if file is present directly on base path i.e. /wamp/www/ but if I pick file from desktop to upload, it didn't actually pass path of file to action php file instead just pass on file name.
Is there a way to achieve this functionality?
Thanks
Saransh
Here is the context : I need to load heavy files in the Google Earth plugin on a website. I have a php script that build up a path to those files and send it to javascript through ajax. Then, the plugin download the file and build it on earth. This take a long time. I need to speed that up for a public event. The computer can run a web server and have these files on his hard drive.
So here is my question : Is there a way for php to check if the client is running a local server and check if it contains a specific file ? Or at least, to execute a php script from this local server ?
Something like :
if(is_file('localhost/files/heavy.kmz'))
$path = 'localhost/files/heavy.kmz';
else
$path = 'www.randomsite.com/files/heavy.kmz';
return $path
Of course, this localhost refers to the wrong server :(.
I guess that if it was possible, there would be security issues. But i ask anyway.
I'm not very used to stackoverflow habits, I hope a didn't do anything wrong.
Kororo.
Edit : I will try to clarify a bit.
I know the path of the files on localhost. I need to check if it exist or not in order to send a path or another. If i can find it, i don't have to download it from the server.
The local webserver is only needed on machine to allow php check of the file.
If the data file is on the same machine, and you can tell where your data file should be relative to the script you are using to check it's existence, just use the __DIR__ (or dirname(__FILE__) if your php is ancient) to create the path.
So for example, you have have the directory structure like this:
files/
heavy.kmz
check.php
...
Then inside the check.php the following work as expected:
if (is_file(__DIR__.'/files/heavy.kmz')) {
$path = __DIR__.'/files/heavy.kmz';
} else {
$path = 'www.randomsite.com/files/heavy.kmz';
}
I just want to know that if I am using move_uploaded_file function and use two argument first as the name of file and second as the destination.
Normally I have uploaded many files with class uploader but now I want to give the destination as http://www.example.com/testing/
Although I have given 777 permission to this folder but when I try to execute the upload code error came
Destination directory can't be created. Can't carry on a process.
How can I upload the file local to server using php code?
If you are passing http://www.mydomain.com/testing/ as the target, this is wrong.
You can't just upload files to servers via HTTP, you only can do that to local folders, can you paste the exact code so we can know better what are you trying to do?
move_uploaded_file is a server-side function, so all the paths should be specified server side.
If your upload.php (i'm assuming the filename) is in the main directory of the website www.mydomain.com/ which is probably /home/youruser/public_html/ then you can specify the destination as simply "testing/"
If your upload file is in some nested directory, then it may work better to specify the full destination path:
/home/youruser/public_html/testing
good luck