Attaching an image to a users profile

[dankellys]

I currently have a site with the ability to register and have a user profile. I would like to have the ability for the users to have an avatar. I currently have a working image uploader:

<?php

echo('<font color="#FFFFFF">Upload images:


<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="' . $PHP_SELF . '" METHOD="POST">

The file: <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="userfile">

<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Upload">

</FORM>');



$path = "images/";

$max_size = 20000;



if (!isset($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile'])) exit;



if (is_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'])) {



if ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['size']>$max_size) { echo "The file is too big<br>n"; exit; }

if (($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/gif") || ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/pjpeg") || ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/jpeg") || ($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['type']=="image/png")) {



if (file_exists($path . $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'])) { echo "The file already exists<br>"; exit; }



$res = copy($HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $path .

$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']);

if (!$res) { echo "upload failed!<br>"; exit; } else { echo "upload sucessful<br>"; }



echo "File Name: ".$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']."<br>";

echo "File Size: ".$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['size']." bytes<br>";

echo "File Type: ".$HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['type']."<br>";

} else { echo "Wrong file type<br></font>"; exit; }

}



$my_file = $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'];

?>

Once the user has uploaded their image, how do i get that image to attach to the users profile?

Cheers

Dan

[tehashman]

i assume you are using a database? and have a users table?

if not, i dont know how to do it.

but, if you are using a DB then create a field for the location of the avatar.

when you want to display the avatar use the user id to get the field and echo out the result in an <img /> tag

hope that wasnt too confusing. early morning here :P

[dankellys]

I certainly am.

cheers for that ill give it a go, so basically i want the image uploader to upload the image and also update the table on the database with the path to the image?

cheers

Dan

[tehashman]

yep sounds about right.

i would also recommend you create a random filename during the upload or append a random 10 digit number to the end of the file name just prevent files being overwritten