What is the proper PHP syntax to post a file that exists in a directory that's on the server?

Question

This is a basic post form in PHP that loads from the client PC. What is the proper syntax to load from a directory on the server?

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="index.php?option=com_productionparse" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="90000000000" /><br />
Choose a file to upload: <input name="file" size=120 type="file" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>

Answer 1

There is no such syntax - HTML forms as the one you show are for client-side uploading only.

To build something that fetches a file from a remote location, you would have to put together a script in PHP. Such scripts already exist; you would have to explain what exactly you want to do for anybody to make a recommendation.