How to get the file path in html <input type=“file”> in PHP?

Question

Can somebody pls tell me how to get the filepath using html in PHP?

Here are my codes:

index.php

Answer 1

You shouldn't just use the $_GET you've got now. Your file is based in $_FILES["csv_file"]["tmp_name"].

Best you review this tutorial, that basically says you need to do something like this:

<?php
if ($_FILES["csv_file"]["error"] > 0)
  {
  echo "Error: " . $_FILES["csv_file"]["error"] . "<br />";
  }
else
  {
  echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["csv_file"]["name"] . "<br />";
  echo "Type: " . $_FILES["csv_file"]["type"] . "<br />";
  echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["csv_file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />";
  echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["csv_file"]["tmp_name"];
  }
?>

And you can go from there. Use move_uploaded_file if you want to move the file from the temp location, also explained in the tutorial :)

Answer 2

I think you would gain a lot from taking a look at the following link: POST method uploads.

First of all, you should change your form method to post, and add enctype="multipart/form-data".

Then you can get the temporary file path from $_FILES['csv_file']['tmp_name'].

Answer 3

In your call to fopen, use $_GET['csv_file']['tmp_name'] - this points to the file on the server immediately after upload.