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Posted by henribaeyens on February 14, 2008, 10:05 am
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Hi,
First, I don't really need if this should go to this group or to some
others. It's more about methodology and involves both php and javascript.
Say I went thru a series of forms, each time validating and, in some
cases, manipulating the data (which includes files to be uploaded at a
later point) and saving those in the $_session array, which thus contains
$_POST data as well as $_FILES data.
Now, the last stage involves triggering a form input with some javascript
code
document.the_form.action = path_to_upload_script;
document.the_form.submit();
How can I link the_form to what's in $_session?
I mean, I could put the data in hidden inputs and then trigger the submit
but what about files? I can't place them in hidden fields, can I?
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Posted by Jeremy on February 14, 2008, 10:12 am
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I'm not sure what you mean. How can you have $_FILES data in the
session? Surely the file will be uploaded when the associated form is
first POSTed?
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Posted by henribaeyens on February 14, 2008, 1:26 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:12:04 -0800, Jeremy wrote:
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> I'm not sure what you mean. How can you have $_FILES data in the
> session? Surely the file will be uploaded when the associated form is
> first POSTed?
ok, i was a tad unclear. What I'm looking for essentially is a way to
pass file input from form to form. Say you browse for a file in multipart/
form-data,then you get an array with its name, tmp name, size and so on,
right? So how do you pass along this information? You can pass along any
input types but the file input type.
The form in which I enter the files is validated by a php script then I
need to keep this information for another form that, upon submission,
will be handled by a perl script. The file's information may be on the
server but not its content because the actual file uploading is not done
yet.
The simple alternative would be to submit the form directly to the cgi
(ie without going thru the php manipulation and reentry) but I'll try to
make this work nonetheless.
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Posted by =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Iv=E1n_S=E1nch on February 14, 2008, 2:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options henribaeyens wrote:
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> ok, i was a tad unclear. What I'm looking for essentially is a way to
> pass file input from form to form. Say you browse for a file in multipart/
> form-data,then you get an array with its name, tmp name, size and so on,
> right? So how do you pass along this information?
You store it in $_SESSION ....
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> You can pass along any input types but the file input type.
Yeah, 'cause you get that by running the "file" command on an unix system.
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> The file's information may be on the server but not its content because
> the actual file uploading is not done yet.
Wrong. Whenever you submit a file, it gets on the server - do you think that
the temporary name of the file is created from thin air?
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> The form in which I enter the files is validated by a php script then I
> need to keep this information for another form that, upon submission,
> will be handled by a perl script.
May I suggest using CURL to make PHP post all the data saved in the
$_SESSION, plus the files (provided you moved them out of their temporary
placement) to the perl script ?
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Posted by Tony on February 14, 2008, 3:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options henribaeyens wrote:
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> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:12:04 -0800, Jeremy wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. How can you have $_FILES data in the
>> session? Surely the file will be uploaded when the associated form is
>> first POSTed?
>
> ok, i was a tad unclear. What I'm looking for essentially is a way to
> pass file input from form to form. Say you browse for a file in multipart/
> form-data,then you get an array with its name, tmp name, size and so on,
> right? So how do you pass along this information? You can pass along any
> input types but the file input type.
> The form in which I enter the files is validated by a php script then I
> need to keep this information for another form that, upon submission,
> will be handled by a perl script. The file's information may be on the
> server but not its content because the actual file uploading is not done
> yet.
>
> The simple alternative would be to submit the form directly to the cgi
> (ie without going thru the php manipulation and reentry) but I'll try to
> make this work nonetheless.
Can't be done with HTML/PHP/JS. There is no possible way to set the
value of a file-type input, which is what you need to do. Might be
doable with Flash/Flex.
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> session? Surely the file will be uploaded when the associated form is
> first POSTed?