How do we upload a file to mysql database using php

Question

Hello All,

I need to upload a file of ethereal capture into the MySQL database. The problem is , it is not done manually through a html form . Hence I can't use enctype="multipart/form-data" and $_FILES to upload a file.

Is there a way to upload a file just using PHP in to the MySQL database.

Regards, Mithun

Answer 1

Uploading Files To MySQL Database

Answer 2

"No I have files generated dynamically from my application ,which I need to upload automatically"

You will have to simulate a POST Request - try using sockets like the following example does:

<?php    
$filename = 'C:/tmp/myphoto.jpg';
$handler  = 'http://www.example.com/upload.php';
$field    = 'image';
$res = send_file($filename, $handler, $field);


if ($res) {
echo 'done.';
} else {
echo 'something went wrong.';
}
?>



function send_file($fname, $handler, $field)
{
/* check if file exists */
if (!file_exists($fname)) {
 echo 'file not found.';
 return false;
}

/* get file's extension */
preg_match("/\.([^\.]+)$/", $fname, $matches);
$ext = $matches[1];

/* guess mimetype from file's extension 
   please add some more mimetypes here */
switch(strtolower($ext)) {
 case "doc":
  $mime = "application/msword";
  break;
 case "jpeg":
 case "jpg":  
 case "jpe":
  $mime = "image/jpeg";
  break;
 case "gif":
  $mime = "image/gif";
  break;
 case "pdf":
  $mime = "application/pdf";
  break;
 case "png":
  $mime = "image/png";
  break;
 case "txt":
 default:
  $mime = "text/plain";
  break;
}  

/* get hostname and path of remote script */
$host = parse_url($handler, PHP_URL_HOST);
$path = parse_url($handler, PHP_URL_PATH);

/* setup request header and body */
$boundary = "---------" . str_replace(".", "", microtime());
$reqbody  = "--$boundary\r\n"
    . "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"$field\"; filename=\"$fname\"\r\n"
    . "Content-Type: $mime\r\n\r\n"
    . file_get_contents($fname) . "\r\n"
    . "--$boundary--\r\n";
$bodylen  = strlen($reqbody);
$reqhead  = "POST $path HTTP/1.1\r\n"
    . "Host: localhost\r\n"
    . "Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=$boundary\r\n"
    . "Content-Length: $bodylen\r\n"
    . "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

/* open socket connection to remote host on port 80 */
$fp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errno, $errmsg, 30);

/* check the connection */
if (!$fp) {
 print "Cannot connect to $host!\n";
 return false;
}

/* send request */
fwrite($fp, $reqhead);
fwrite($fp, $reqbody);

/* read response */
$res = "";
while(!feof($fp)) {
 $res .= fgets($fp, 4096);
}  
fclose($fp);

/* separate header and body */
$neck = strpos($res, "\r\n\r\n");
$head = substr($res, 0, $neck);
$body = substr($res, $neck+4);

/* check HTTP status */
$lines = explode("\r\n", $head);
preg_match('/HTTP\/(\\d\\.\\d)\\s*(\\d+)\\s*(.*)/', $lines[0], $m);
$status = $m[2];

if ($status == 200) {
 return(true);
} else {
 return(false);
}
}

Answer 3

How are you creating the files? I'm pretty sure that using fopen('yourfilename.txt', 'w') will create a file if there isn't one. Then you could just insert the file name into your mysql database.