ok i have used the following code in my upload.php file

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using ../photos/ as my upload DIR works, as the file does upload, but when i echo $uploadfile on the same page:

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IE wont show it as it has two fullstops before the photo dir in the domain

e.g : http://www.thedirtybackbeats.com/../photos/playlist.JPG


it works in firefox, as it removes the two full stops, but IE isnt having any of it.

any ideas?
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-----Please use CODE tags when posting codes-----szupie

This post has been edited by szupie: Feb 2 2006, 01:11 AM

Interesting. I'm sure someone will respond as to why this is happening, and why firefox interprets it differently, but it's obvious if you use $uploadfile as part of the href for the image...it will say http://yourdomain.com/../photos because it's just a string and it's putting the text where you tell it to. I don't know if double quotes would make a difference here, but probably not. I personally was goin to try to write a bit of code that uploads images, but I haven't even started yet. Why are you displaying the picture on the same page? Is it just to verify that the image has been loaded and show it in action?

As I said, I haven't tried this so if the '../photos/' is required rather than just 'photos/' then a simple fix would be to

Just cut out the first 3 (or 2 characters) in your string after you successfully upload. Then you should have a valid path to your image.

I'm just curioius as to why firefox parses it. Anyone?

I suggest not using relative urls.

I understand the though behind using relitive urls but if you are building the url with PHP anyhow, I suggest using some of the built in PHP file system functions to build the link.

I think this link may help.
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.realpath.php

This way you'll have all of the benefits of using a relative url for the script but the link that the browser will see will be absolute.

You would need to run a few more functions on the variable before it would be usable as a url.

Hope this help you.

vujsa

Good idea, I thought about that too, but I've never used that function. I don't even know how that thing works lol. Anyways if you can pass an real address rather than just relative to your upload function you could just build your URL.



Sometimes you might not want the '//', I've read that somewhere and they used some kind of ternary operator to deal with that problem. In most cases I think something like that would work, as long as you kept the same structure. Perhaps that function realpath would be the better solution tho. Gl with it.