add image location to name

[LloydFarrell]

Hi all,

Over the last week or two i have been working on uploading images to mysql db,

Whilst i have the image uploading to the correct location and the name of the image added to the database, i cant understand how to add the image location to the name also,

I have the following code that uploads & names the image as of the date time of upload, but I would like to add the location also to the database so I can call it back later.

// Image upload process start
			$image_ext = explode('.', $image);  //split the image name with respect of " . "
			$image_name = date('Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];  //create unique image name with present "date & time"
			
			$dest = "uploaded/" . $image_name; //set the destination path (where image file will be uploaded)
			$val = move_uploaded_file($_FILES['profile_image']['tmp_name'], $dest); //upload image to the destination path
			// Image upload process end

many thanks

[Will Gresham]

Surely you would want to use the value of $dest to store the file location in the DB..

[vaultdweller123]

you want to add the location on the database? then just insert your $dest variable into your database.

assuming you had these table and variables
you query should look like this

INSERT INTO your_table(name,date,location) VALUES('$name','$date','$dest');

[LloydFarrell]

hi, I have tried both

$image_name = date('$dest' 'Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];

//and i have tried this 

$image_name = date('uploaded/' 'Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];

but i get an error all the time ??

[LloydFarrell]

what id like it to read in the database is
uploaded/imagename.jpg

[Will Gresham]

hi, I have tried both

$image_name = date('$dest' 'Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];

//and i have tried this 

$image_name = date('uploaded/' 'Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];

but i get an error all the time ??

Perhaps you should take another look at the Date function..

[LloydFarrell]

@Will

Will how do you mean, ?? Look at the date function ???

What could be the problem with that date function

[amd_k8]

The error you were getting, is because wrong date() use... So far you tried to merge the strings inside the function, while date() gets only correct date modifiers.

Try that...

$image_name = date('Ymdhis') . "." . $image_ext[1];
$image_name = $dest.$image_name;

BTW doing explode() to get image extension could be wrong, because some images can be named, for example, like "image.test.jpg".

[LloydFarrell]

cheers Will for the pointers,

I have tried what you suggested and im still getting the image name but no location ??

[Will Gresham]

If you echo $dest what does it say?

[LloydFarrell]

will its now working correctly with the following code - cheers for your help bud, I will mark this as solved

$image_ext = explode('.', $image);  //split the image name with respect of " . "
			$image_name = date('Ymdhis'). "." . $image_ext[1];  //create unique image name with present "date & time"
			//$image_name = $dest.$image_name;
			$dest = "uploaded/" . $image_name; //set the destination path (where image file will be uploaded)
			$image_name = $dest;
			$val = move_uploaded_file($_FILES['profile_image']['tmp_name'], $dest); //upload image to the destination path
			// Image upload process end

[Will Gresham]

Good :)

You will need to alter this bit:

$image_ext = explode('.', $image); 
$image_name = date('Ymdhis'). "." . $image_ext[1];

If the user uploads an image with the name 'picture.123.456.jpg' for example, that script will not work.

Do something along the lines of this:

$image_ext = explode('.', $image); 
$actual_ext = count($image_ext) -1; // Get the string after the final period.
$image_name = date('Ymdhis'). "." . $image_ext[$actual_ext];

[LloydFarrell]

Hi will,

I have tried what you suggested !

I renamed one image to image.name.jpg and tried to register, and it failed the script as you said it would,

I added the code you suggested but I was still getting an error saying the file should be jpg,png etc etc

I have edited my error flag to say, images should be imagename.jpg not
image.name.jpg

regards
Lloyd