handling file uploads.

[Punto]

Hi.. can anyone point me to an example on handling file uploads (on a CGI script)?

Thanks..

[lhoward]

See the CGI modle documentation.

To be safe, use the upload() function (new in version 2.47). When called with the name of an upload field, upload() returns a filehandle, or undef if the parameter is not a valid filehandle.

$fh = $query->upload('uploaded_file');

[wonko]

I asked the same thing about a week ago, check that thread uploading a file

/wonko

[Punto]

question about the code on that thread: is there any way to find out the name of the file that's being uploaded?

Thanks..

[Russ]

See This Node in the thread.

Russ

[Punto]

Ok, I have this new problem now:

I use:

$filename = $query->param('uploaded_file');

And $filename is always empty. I know the file is being transmitted by the browser because I used netcat to see the request..

Any ideas? thanks..

[chromatic]

Your input field must be named 'uploaded_file' and you really ought to use the CGI::upload() method instead of CGI::param() there.

Probably just a typo, happens to me all the time.

CGI::upload() was added in a newer version of CGI, so you might want to upgrade.

[Punto]

Your input field must be named 'uploaded_file' and you really ought to use the CGI::upload() method instead of CGI::param() there.

I know.. but when I use upload() I get "Undefined subroutine CGI::upload".

Probably just a typo, happens to me all the time.

I checked the spellig too.. :)

[cbraga]

The excellent Apache Week has a great feature on publishing data with put, including the full source code of a perl script that handles file uploads. Check it out here.