How to use the PHP variable name to create a folder to save browsed files?

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<?php
$name = (isset($_POST['project_name']) ) ? $_POST['project_name'] : '';

$fixedPath = "projects_data/";

if (file_exists("uploads/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]))
      {
      echo $_FILES["project_image"]["name"] . " already exists. ";
      }
    else
      {
	  
      move_uploaded_file($_FILES["project_image"]["name"],
     "$fixedPath/$name/". $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]);
    echo "Stored in: " . "$fixedPath/$name/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"];
      }
?>

I have created a folder called projects_data in my root.When I submit my form I need to save the image into a sub-folder inside projects_data.I need to create a sub-folder dynamically with the folder name as "$name".How can I do this?Please help me out!

Posted 24-Nov-14 3:16am

Janardhanam Julapalli

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Janardhanam Julapalli 24-Nov-14 9:20am

when I submit this, It is creating a folder with by $name and echo is producing with full path but the image is not stored in the required folder.

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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer · Answer 1 · 2014-11-24T22:07:00

Solution 1

This is because PHP is "confusing" your "$name" to be a variable $name. Replace the else part with

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move_uploaded_file($_FILES["project_image"]["name"],
    "$fixedPath/\$name/". $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]);
   echo "Stored in: " . "$fixedPath/\$name/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"];

Posted 24-Nov-14 22:07pm

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer

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Janardhanam Julapalli 25-Nov-14 4:37am

will it create a new folder in the name of $name

Janardhanam Julapalli 25-Nov-14 5:02am

$name is already creating the new folder but only the image is not stored in that path.

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer 25-Nov-14 7:51am

I think I am misunderstanding your question! What is the path you want the image to be in e.g `c:/.../www/project/pictures`? And is this path already available or you want to create it through codes?

Janardhanam Julapalli 25-Nov-14 11:17am

I have created a folder called "projects_data" inside www.When I submit my form,I am sending the value called project_name and an image with variables called $project and file upload.I want to create a folder inside "projects_data" whose name should be the $project.Inside this folder I need to store the image.

Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer · Answer 2 · 2014-11-25T20:46:00

Then you have to first create the folder with the $name variable before moving the upload to it and another important error I was now is you are using $_FILES['project_image']['name'] in the move_uploaded_file function instead of $_FILES['project_image']['tmp_name'].
This should work!

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$name = (isset($_POST['project_name']) ) ? $_POST['project_name'] : 'unnamed project';
 
$fixedPath = "projects_data/";

//make the directory
@mkdir($fixedPath."/".$name, 0777, true);

//Move the uploaded file 
if(file_exists($fixedPath. "/" . $name . "/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]) && is_file($fixedPath. "/" . $name . "/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]))
{
     echo $_FILES["project_image"]["name"] . " already exists. ";
}
else
{
    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES["project_image"]["tmp_name"] /*see your error here*/,
    $fixedPath. "/" . $name . "/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"]))
	{
		echo "Stored in: " . $fixedPath. "/" . $name . "/" . $_FILES["project_image"]["name"];
	}
	else
	{
		echo "Error moving file";
	}
}
?>

Janardhanam Julapalli · Answer 3 · 2014-12-23T23:05:00

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$project = (isset($_POST['projectName']) ) ? $_POST['projectName'] : '';

$dirname = "C:\\\\Bitnami\\wampstack-5.4.33-0\\apache2\\htdocs\\projects_data\\";
mkdir($dirname.$project, 0777, true);


if (isset($_FILES["gallery_images"]["name"]))
    {
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES["gallery_images"]["tmp_name"], "$dirname/$project/" . $_FILES["gallery_images"]["name"]);
        $image = "projects_data/$project/" . $_FILES["gallery_images"]["name"];
    }

This will create a folder dynamically in the name of $project at the specified location.
Thanks for the help though.

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