Storing a post image.

[k0r54]

Hi,

I think the best way is to start with what I am doing. I have a form on my website and they fill it in and upload a picture. The main problem here is that i need to upload a the picture to there website (different domain & server). There is quite a big permisions problem with this.

As a work around what I done was direct the form directly to there domain then put my script that processed it on there server. Thing is im not really that happy with it because any changes means i need to change the file on there server.

Is that any way I can perhaps process it on my server put the image into a session or something that go to there server and upload the image. I dont mind a file on there server but i would like to be able to validate the image (size) and the fields on my server still.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks
k0r54

[themarty]

i think any solution is gonna be dirty, but what you could do is trigger a script on the remote server (after the upload is completed), that copies it form your server to that one.

[k0r54]

thats not a bad idea. I know its a little dirty and im not really that happy I have to do it like that. Again though, wont I still get a permision problem just the other way round?

Thanks
Adam

[themarty]

nopes. it's just a matter of retrieving an image from a server
if permission problems would be an issue, then your browser would have the same problem.

[k0r54]

ok then,

Well i suppose the next step now is how can i trigger a script from another server?

Thanks
k0r54

[themarty]

for example:
http://www.php.net/fopen

you could even make it give output that you can read with the upload-script, to determine whether is was succesful or not

[k0r54]

I have read through it, i cant say i fully understand it but i get the drift.

So i would run that from there server and i would be able to copy the image?

Any help on that function would be great.

Thanks
k0r54

[k0r54]

Hi Well the way i currently validate my form is to direct the form to itself and at the top of the page use this code: -

// Check the validation
if(isset($_POST) && is_array($_POST) && ($_POST['val'] == 'true')) { 
    
  // Validation via validation page
  $error_msg = validate(); 
    
  if($_SESSION['VAL_TRUE'] == true) { 
        
    // Put all the post data into a session //
    $_SESSION['POST_DATA'] = validate();
    header('Location:' . FILENAME_CHECKOUT_INVOICE . '.php');
        
  } else {
    $errors = true; 
  }
} 

The validate functions checks all the post variables and then returns an error msg which i display further on but if its fine and everything has valiadate properly i go to the header location.

How could i put that function into this situation?

Thanks
k0r54

[themarty]

this is how you could do it:

to trigger the script:

fopen("http://www.remoteserver.com/scriptToBeTriggered.php?file=".urlencode("uploadedImg.jp"), "r");

-------

scriptToBeTriggered.php

<?php
 // copied from the usercomments on http://www.php.net/fopen
function download($file_source, $file_target) {
       $rh = fopen($file_source, 'rb');
       $wh = fopen($file_target, 'wb');
       if ($rh===false || $wh===false) {
// error reading or opening file
           return true;
       }
       while (!feof($rh)) {
           if (fwrite($wh, fread($rh, 1024)) === FALSE) {
                   // 'Download error: Cannot write to file ('.$file_target.')';
                   return true;
               }
       }
       fclose($rh);
       fclose($wh);
       // No error
       return false;
   }

if (download("http://www.yourserver.com/uploaddir/".urldecode($_GET['file']), "whereverYouWantIt")
{
   echo "Yeah!";
}
else
{
   echo "Damn!";
}
?>

That's basically the idea
Of course you need to add some security precautions here and there, so other people can not abuse the script

[k0r54]

Ahhh ok great

I will try that. Thanks very much

[k0r54]

Hi,

Using the fopen is there a way i can pull pack some code. You have echo Yeah and echo damn but neither of them actually display anything on the page.

so you know what im doing.

I have simple (at the moment) got: -
page 1

fopen("http://www.xxxxx.com/ImgUploadfile.php?file=" . urlencode("www.myserver.com") . "&pID=" . urlencode("an id"), "r"); 

http://www.xxxxx.com/ImgUploadfile.php

if (strpos(urldecode($_GET['file']), "www.myserver.com") === true) {
  echo "Thank you";                    
} else {
  echo "You do not have permision to this file";
} 

This display nothing??

Thanks
k0r54

[themarty]

the download script can only download remote files to the local server on which the script is running, so what you have to do is put the script on the server where on which you want to download the files. This is in your case the remote server.
Then, when the script is working OK, you access it from your own server using for example fopen.

So,
REMOTE SERVER A:
- /htdocs/download.php
- /htdocs/images/

LOCAL SERVER B:
- htdocs/activate.php
- htdocs/uploaded_files/

download.php contains the script that does the downloading:

if (download("http://SERVER B/uploaded_files/".urldecode($_GET['file']), "images/".urldecode($_GET['file']))
{
   echo "Yeah!";
}
else
{
   echo "Damn!";
} 

activate.php is the script that you trigger after the file is uploaded and does the following:

fopen("http://SERVER A/download.php?file=".$_FILES['file']['name'], "r"); 

in this situation i've assumed that all the uploaded files are stored in the dir /uploaded_files

check also http://www.php.net/fopen to see how to retrieve the response Yeah! or Damn

[k0r54]

Hi,

Thanks for the break down. I went to the fopen section on php.net before i done posted back up here but cannot seem to see how to retrieve the response?

Thanks
k0r54

[bokeh]

i think any solution is gonna be dirty, but what you could do is trigger a script on the remote server (after the upload is completed), that copies it form your server to that one.

Ok... but I believe you've got it wrong. The script on the remote server could be as simple as:

<?php require_once('http://www.yourdomain.com/yourscript'); ?>

No more code than that is required on their server. On your server have a file called yourscript (no extension needed) that contains your PHP script. Now you have complete control of everything directly from a script on your own server.

[themarty]

basically everything is already in the download function.

so, try this for example:

<?php
if ($rh = fopen("http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?p=576869", "r"))
{
   echo "Retrieved url succesfully!<br><br>";
   $content = "";
   while (!feof($rh))
   {
       $content .= fread($rh, 1024);
   }
   echo "Sourcecode:<pre>".htmlspecialchars($content)."</pre>";
}
else
{
   echo "Retrieving the url failed";
}
?>