Saving Uploaded File Path in MySQL with PHP - php

Question

I am trying to upload a file, and save the path to MySQL.
I want to make a custom path for each file, which will be based on a variable, however the actual file name of the file will stay the same.
I am submitting the file via POST. I believe I have to use $_FILE? The name of the form item is "file".
How would I go about doing this? Note: I DO NOT want to store the actual file on the database, just the path.
EDIT: I also want to save the actual file to a path, too.

Answer 1

Take a look at this page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php There is an example of moving an uploaded file to some folder.
So yes the relevant information is stored in $_FILE

Answer 2

First create appvars.php like something below
<?php
// Define application constants
define('GW_UPLOADPATH', 'foldername/');
define('GW_MAXFILESIZE', 32768); // 32 KB
?>
then create the code to save the file like something like this
<?php
require_once('appvars.php');
$file = mysqli_real_escape_string($dbc, trim($_FILES['file']['name']));
$file_type = $_FILES['file']['type'];
$file_size = $_FILES['file']['size'];
//do some checks to make sure the person upload the file type you like
if ((($file_type == filetype) // check for the size also
&& ($file_size > 0) && ($file_size <= GW_MAXFILESIZE)) {
if ($_FILES['file']['error'] == 0) {
// Move the file to the target upload folder
$target = GW_UPLOADPATH . $file;
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $target)) {
// Write the data to the database
mysqli_connect( database info);
$query = "INSERT INTO table (file ) VALUES ($file)";
mysqli_query($dbc, $query);
}
}
}
mysqli_close($dbc);
?>