提供上传文件，将文件写入硬盘，获取完整路径（字符串）添加到数据库CakePHP中

Question

Since I am just experimenting on this, (only localhost) I may like to ask for some ideas(since nothing is really coming out of my mind) about letting a user, who is going to, for example, register to a mini-social-networking site, with a corresponding username/password, personal details, etc. I would upload the image, and save it to a folder(ON MY HARD DRIVE be it Drive C:\ or D:), for example '/images/username' and the full path of the folder would be the one inserted to a row named img_dir (of course it is a string, instead of putting it as a BLOB, so later i would just use img src="path"). I would not mind where it will be going to be saved. But since I am new to cakephp i haven't really grasped the idea of what I am going to do. I have no problems about registering/login sessions. This was easy in C# but I am too stupid for PHP maybe? :P

Answer 1

While this may not give you a direct solution in CakePHP, you had asked for some ideas.

I've outlines some pros and cons of storing a file on the filesystem (along with some other approaches) in this post.

Hope that helps...