Re: File Attachment Utility

[Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan,

When we wanted a handout upload facility for our conference speakers,  
we started with FUPLOAD (much of the rest of the SystemiDeveloper.com  
site is done in CGIDEV2) but it was just too slow.  There are several  
performance boosts that could have been made to the code (for example  
replacing the byte-by-byte copying process) but we decided instead to  
look for an alternative as we want the site to be both practical and  
an example of what we preach.  Net.Data was ruled out as it is  
obsolete to all intents and purposes - IBM "i" now being the only  
platform that supports it.  Instead we used PHP.  The CGIDEV2  
application builds the web page from which the speaker selects which  
files to upload.  Once he has done so the form invokes the PHP script  
- from which the following is the core code.  Very simple and works  
beautifully.  It is actually a bit longer than need be because this  
version was written to be step-by-step so we could debug easily.

$files = count( $_FILES );

for($file = 0; $file < $files; $file ++) {
   $fileName = 'File' . $file;
   $sessionId = $_POST ['Session'] [$file];
 // Original name and size retirieved for testing purposes only
   $originalName = $_FILES [$fileName] ['name'];
   $fileSize = $_FILES [$fileName] ['size'];
 // Copy the uploaded file(s) to final location.
   if (move_uploaded_file ( $_FILES [$fileName] ['tmp_name'], "/ 
sidcd/pdf/$sessionId.pdf" ))
" {
      $message = 'Uploaded';
   } else {
 // Handle error conditions
   }

There are so many of these kinds of powerful functions in PHP that  
we'll be using it a lot more in the future, for mailing, PDF  
conversion, XMNL handling, etc.


Jon Paris

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com