[thelist] Free Tip for PHP

[Jay Blanchard]

[snip]
I made neat script that will/should help with file uploading and the
<input
type="file"> button. I wanted the file name so I did this:

(complete file path is set via method="GET" in my form and the file
fields
name is "Info")

$Info = $_GET["Info"];
$Info = split("\\\\",$Info);

echo $Info[count($Info)-1]; // get the file name 

and the output was in fact:
file.htm

original path:
C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\file.htm

The nice thing about this is that it will grab the file name regardless
of
how long the file path is.
[/snip]

An easier way to get the filename; 

PHP earlier than 4.1 -- $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']
PHP after that -- $_FILES['userfile']['name']

See http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

There is a lot of information that you can get about uploaded files that
are contained in these variable arrays.

HTH!