How can a user upload a résumé in Word or other common format and have it uploaded into my DB in PHP?

Question

How does résumé upload work? I have a site in PHP and right now users can build their résumé line by line, because it is stored in db table. How can a user upload a resume in Word or other common format and have it uploaded into my db? Is it something to do with regex? Are there any scripts out there available that can do that?

Just trying to understand the process.

Thanks.

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UPDATE:

BTW I looked around a bit and saw web-forms for resume creation -- I already have that. I need a user to be able to point webform to his/er resume, click SUBMIT and have that document input into db automagically.

Answer 1

Simply use the file uploading feature:

1. create a HTML page containing a <form> and a file input.
2. create a PHP script that receives the uploaded file

The process is simple: user selects a file to upload and the browser sends it to a PHP script designated by the action attribute of the <form> tag. After the file is uploaded into the server, you can do whatever you want with it.

PHP file upload tutorial

File uploading guidelines in PHP manual