Question

Does anyone know php?

Answer 1

Yes. What's your question?

Answer 2

i am building a website for users to store their files for free.
i have the registration completed, but i can't figure out how to handle the file upload.
i just put the site up for you to look at it if you'd like www.littleboxez.com
I want the users files to be stored on the server so that they are the only ones who can access them, but i don't how to make any of it work. thanks for the help

Answer 3

There are tons of information about this on the web, I've even seen pre-built frameworks and scripts.

You probably want some kind of upploading script.
When the user upploads a file you store information about where the file is located on the server together with a field indicating which user upploaded it.
Finaly you provide a page where the users can see and download all their files.
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

Protecting the files is the tricky part. One way to do it is to store the files outside of the webroot (public_html or htdocs etc.) and ouput the file through php (the downside of this is that it can be quite resource heavy).
http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php

Some usefull links:
http://www.uploadify.com/
http://www.albanx.com/ajaxuploader/
http://codular.com/javascript-ajax-file-upload-with-progress

Answer 4

I have successfuly managed to allow users to upload files to the server but they are just in an uploads folder.
How do i go about making the files accessible by only the user who uploaded them?

Answer 5

"Protecting the files is the tricky part. One way to do it is to store the files outside of the webroot (public_html or htdocs etc.) and ouput the file through php (the downside of this is that it can be quite resource heavy).
http://php.net/manual/en/function.readfile.php "