Posted on: July 30, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Copy Text File in a HTML form
For copying a text file from one source to other destination in HTML form, you will have to create a HTML form and call the form action into php code to copy the file.
In PHP code, first begin the PHP tag,
Define the source file and destination file variable.
Copy file from source to destination.
End php tag.
<?php
if($_POST["copy"]){
$sourcefile = $_POST["sourcefile"];
$destinationfile = $_POST["destinationfile"];
copy($sourcefile,$destinationfile);
}
?>
Draw the HTML form
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Copy File</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body >
<form name="form" method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<table style="border:1px solid #CCCCCC; background-color:#F0F0F0; font-family:verdana; font-size:12px" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" width="600px">
<tr>
<td colspan="4" align ="center"><h3>Copy Text File</h3></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Source File</strong></td>
<td><input type="file" id="sourcefile" name="sourcefile"></td>
<td><strong>Destination File</strong></td>
<td><input type="file" id="destinationfile" name="destinationfile"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td> <td> </td><td><input type="submit" name="copy" value="Copy"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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