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Improve this question. I've downloaded php from the official site. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. John Conde John Conde k 97 97 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Can you please break this down for me a bit more? I don't quite understand and am eager to get past this point. Install wamp or xamp and then place the file in your root folder. I'll give that a try! Francesco Belladonna Francesco Belladonna So possible reasons could be: PHP is not installed properly on your system or the server is not properly installed.

PHP module isn't loaded in your apache. You did not put your scripts in the right place. I made all the above mistakes. SO I am assuming you might have done the same. Funk Forty Niner Maddy Maddy 1, 2 2 gold badges 10 10 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually.

Visit chat. The format of the file is fairly self-explanatory. Submit a Pull Request Report a Bug. Notes Note : In order for this to work, your browscap configuration setting in php. As of PHP 7. This function is too slow for todays needs. Since browser detection can be tricky and very slow, I compared a few packages. They either give the wrong name eg Safari when in fact it should be Chrome and if the ua string includes a version number as with the latest versions of Chrome and Opera the wrong number is reported.

So I took bits and pieces from the various examples and combined them and added a check for version. Follow up to Francesco R's post from His function works for most human traffic; added a few lines to cover the most common bot traffic. Also fixed issue with function failing to detect strings at position 0 due to strpos behavior. First, in the same directory, create a new directory called uploads. This will be where our script will save the files. Then, in the same directory as index.

Notice that this is the same name as the action attribute in the form. Then add this code:. Also note that in the code above, we validate the file upload by checking both the file type and size. Only png and jpeg files that are less than 4MB. Finally, if you now start the PHP server and go to localhost , then upload a file, you should see it save in the uploads folder! Keep in mind that the all of the code above requires additional security precautions before being released in production.

For example, there are currently no checks to see if the user has uploaded a virus disguised as an image. To learn more, check out this article which describes various ways to handle secure file uploads. Filestack is an advanced file upload API and service that securely stores files in the cloud. Why use a third party like Filestack over building it yourself?

By using a third party you no longer need to deal with the scaling, security, and maintenance that comes with building your own file upload system. This can free you up to focus on building other important parts of your application. And you can get started for free.