Using a HTML form and PHP to upload a file

: Joel Lipman; Personal Home Page; 17 September 2009; Hits: 6584

The Issue

Basically you have a HTML form with an input field type of 'FILE' (ie. <input type="file" name="file_to_upload" />) and want a PHP file to process this. This example applies to a Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) environment.

The Solution
1. The first thing to do is check that your HTML form is setup to do this:

: Joel Lipman; Personal Home Page; 06 September 2009; Hits: 5218

I added this article because when I was only trying to look up how to do this, this nut "the Storyteller" went and carried out a benchmark test on the most popular ways of counting the occurrence of a specific word within a string of text.

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