handling file uploads.

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Re: handling file uploads. by lhoward (Vicar) on Jun 16, 2000 at 14:31 UTC
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 = $query->upload('uploaded_file');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: handling file uploads. by wonko (Pilgrim) on Jun 16, 2000 at 15:32 UTC
I asked the same thing about a week ago, check that thread uploading a file /wonko	[reply]
RE: Re: handling file uploads. by Punto (Scribe) on Jun 17, 2000 at 01:01 UTC
question about the code on that thread: is there any way to find out the name of the file that's being uploaded? Thanks..	[reply]
RE:(3) handling file uploads. by Russ (Deacon) on Jun 17, 2000 at 02:02 UTC
See This Node in the thread. Russ	[reply]
RE: RE:(3) handling file uploads. by wonko (Pilgrim) on Jun 17, 2000 at 09:35 UTC
RE: RE: RE:(3) handling file uploads. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 17, 2000 at 11:09 UTC
Re: handling file uploads. by cbraga (Pilgrim) on Jun 19, 2000 at 06:55 UTC
The excellent Apache Week has a great feature on publishing data with put, including the full source code of a perl script that handles file uploads. Check it out here.	[reply]
Re: handling file uploads. by Punto (Scribe) on Jun 19, 2000 at 06:14 UTC
Ok, I have this new problem now: I use: `$filename = $query->param('uploaded_file');` [download] 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..	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Re: handling file uploads. by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jun 19, 2000 at 07:23 UTC
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.	[reply]
RE: RE: Re: handling file uploads. by Punto (Scribe) on Jun 19, 2000 at 10:12 UTC
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.. :)	[reply]