I cover file uploads in detail in PHP Solutions, 2nd Edition, although I don’t cover this particular scenario. However, it is covered in Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source, using the Zend Framework.

I have followed a lot of your tutorials and they are extremely good. At the moment I am trying to create a form that will upload data to MYSQL as well as an image that is stored in a folder on the site and trying to link the image into the MYSQL database all in one step. I am creating this form in the CMS of a website that will be used by people that have no experience at webdesign or management. I need to make it so that they can enter a title, details of an event and upload a picture that is linked to this data all in one form. I can create a form to enter the data no problem, I can create a form to upload the picture no problem, but I can not link the picture to the relative data. I can upload the image into the database, but it becomes somewhat bloated.
Any help you may be able to provide would be much appreciated as I have been trying for about a week and am pulling my hair out.
I hope this is the appropriate place to ask you this question.
Kind Regards
Brent Taylor

Another point to bear in mind is that most frameworks are quite large. The Zend Framework, for example, is 25MB. If you’re planning a complex site, a framework can be very helpful; but it’s often overkill for a small site. My framework of choice is Zend Framework. It’s very well written, has a lot of features, and is backed by Zend, the company run by core contributors to PHP. I cover some of the main features of ZF in my book, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Training from the Source.

Thanks

Hello Mr. Powers,

is there any place/book where you have the above information on searching a database with optional html input without using dreamweaver? Only php, mysql, and html? Thanks

Stephanie

Sorry to take time from your new book. I suspect it must be the one I pre-ordered at Amazon on Dreamweaver CS5. I never look forward to the end of summer, but this year I am looking forward to August 20th.

I’m building a page based on the “Upload image to website” recipe. Everything works great unless I try to add a duplicate image. Instead of getting the expected “A file of the same name already exists”, the page throws the error: “Undefined variable: success in C:\vhost\filepath\upload.php on line 29″.

Line 29 is the first line of the following section:


if ($success) {
$result = "$file uploaded successfully.";
} else {
$result = "Error uploading $file. Please try again.";
}


Success is first mentioned on line 23 and the entire section is:

$success =
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], UPLOAD_DIR .
$file);
} else {
$result = 'A file of the same name already exists.';
}
if ($success) {
$result = "$file uploaded successfully.";
} else {
$result = "Error uploading $file. Please try again.";
}


So far I’ve just copy and pasted the code onto a standard blank Dreamweaver PHP page and made the changes needed for my upload directory and filesize. I haven’t added any other HTML or CSS yet. Is there something else I need to change or is there a bug in the code?

Thanks,
Chris