<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >fdf_get_attachment</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Forms Data Format functions" HREF="ref.fdf.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="fdf_get_ap" HREF="function.fdf-get-ap.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="fdf_get_encoding" HREF="function.fdf-get-encoding.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fdf-get-ap.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.fdf-get-encoding.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.fdf-get-attachment" ></A >fdf_get_attachment</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN27544" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)</P >fdf_get_attachment -- Extracts uploaded file embedded in the FDF</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN27547" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >fdf_get_attachment</B > ( resource fdf_document, string fieldname, string savepath)<BR ></BR ><P > Extracts a file uploaded by means of the "file selection" field <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >fieldname</I ></TT > and stores it under <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >savepath</I ></TT >. <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >savepath</I ></TT > may be the name of a plain file or an existing directory in which the file is to be created under its original name. Any existing file under the same name will be overwritten. </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > There seems to be no other way to find out the original filename but to store the file using a directory as <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >savepath</I ></TT > and check for the basename it was stored under. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > The returned array contains the following fields: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >path</I ></TT > - path were the file got stored</P ><P ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >size</I ></TT > - size of the stored file in bytes</P ><P ><TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >type</I ></TT > - mimetype if given in the FDF</P ></LI ></UL > </P ><P > <TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="EXAMPLE" ><TR ><TD ><DIV CLASS="example" ><A NAME="AEN27578" ></A ><P ><B >Example 1. Storing an uploaded file</B ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" CELLPADDING="5" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" ><?php $fdf = fdf_open_string($HTTP_FDF_DATA); $data = fdf_get_attachment($fdf, "filename", "/tmpdir"); echo "The uploaded file is stored in $data[path]"; ?></PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></TD ></TR ></TABLE > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fdf-get-ap.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.fdf-get-encoding.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >fdf_get_ap</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.fdf.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >fdf_get_encoding</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >