1) Go to C:\xampp\htdocs and make a folder name it how_to_upload_file_in_php
2) Now make a file naming upload_form.php and paste the following
code in it
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta
http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled
Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form
enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload_file.php"
method="POST">
Choose a file to
upload: <input type="file" name="file"
size="50" />
<input
type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
3) Now make a php file to upload the
file upload_file.php and paste the
following code
<?php
$targetfolder =
"upload_folder/";
$targetfolder =
$targetfolder . basename( $_FILES['file']['name']) ;
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],
$targetfolder))
{
echo "The file
". basename( $_FILES['file']['name']). " is uploaded";
}
else {
echo "Error
occured while uploading file";
}
?>
4) Now make a folder in your root directory where all the files will upload naming it upload_folder
Now run your code by this url: http://localhost/toturial_website/how_to_upload_file_in_php/upload_form.php
Your file will upload in the upload_folder. Please check it. Feel free to ask any query
