PHP File Uploads The Complete Guide to Uploading Files Using PHP

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Learn how to upload a file using PHP.

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https://davehollingworth.net/phpy

In this video you’ll learn how to:
• create a form in HTML to select files for upload
• configure PHP for file uploads
• save the file locally to the web server
• restrict files by size and type
• rename uploaded files for security
• avoid overwriting existing files

Code shown in the video:
https://gist.github.com/daveh/6934c8d5cd7cd4b0afa1f15ae4799484

CSS:
https://watercss.kognise.dev/

PHP Documentation shown:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.files.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.file-uploads
https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/fileinfo.installation.php
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php

00:00 Introduction
00:31 HTML form
01:30 PHP script
02:27 _FILES
04:04 php.ini enable file uploads
05:02 Upload errors
06:50 Restricting size
08:44 php.ini size settings
10:30 Restricting by type
12:52 The temporary file
13:40 Move the file
16:20 Filename security
17:42 Unique filenames
19:03 Summary

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