How to do file uploads with PHP and the Zend Framework?

By default, files are uploaded to the system temporary directory, which means you'll to either.

By default, files are uploaded to the system temporary directory, which means you'll to either : use move_uploaded_file to move the files somewhere else, or configure the directory to which Zend Framework should move the files ; your form element should have a setDestination method that can be used for that. For the second point, there is an example in the manual : $element = new Zend_Form_Element_File('foo'); $element->setLabel('Upload an image:') ->setDestination('/var/www/upload') ->setValueDisabled(true); (But read that page : there are other usefull informations).

1 +1 For configuring the destination in the form element and by pointing the manual. – Luiz Damim Dec 10 '09 at 13:17.

If you were to move the file to a public directory, anyone would be able to send a link to that file to anyone else and you have no control over who has access to the file. Instead, you could store the file in the DB as a longblob and then use the Zend Framework to provide users access the file through a controller/action. This would let you wrap your own authentication and user permission logic around access to the files.

You'll need to get the file from the /tmp directory in order to save it to the db: // I think you get the file name and path like this: $data = $form->getValues(); // this makes it so you don't have to call receive() $fileName = $data->file->tmp_name; // includes path $file = file_get_contents($fileName); // now save it to the database. You can get the mime type and other // data about the file from $data->file. Debug or dump $data to see // what else is in there Your action in the controller for viewing would have your authorization logic and then load the row from the db: // is user allowed to continue?

If (!AuthenticationUtil::isAllowed()) { $this->_redirect("/error"); } // load from db $fileRow = FileUtil::getFileFromDb($id); // don't know what your db implementation is $this->view->fileName = $fileRow->name; $this->view->fileNameSuffix = $fileRow->suffix; $this->view->fileMimeType = $fileRow->mime_type; $this->view->file = $fileRow->file; Then in the view: fileName. ". ".

$this->fileNameSuffix); header('Content-type: ". $this->fileMimeType. "'); echo $this->file;?

Thanks for talking about what to do once the user needs to download the file. I will be implementing a download action like you mentioned. – Andrew Dec 15 '09 at 3:34.

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