kieranbarnes Independent PHP, WordPress & CubeCart Programmer

The Beauty of Old Code

A client of mine needed a quick image upload feature to a custom administration app. We have jQuery and AJAX and all sorts of modern niceness. Screw that.

Bring back PEAR's HTTP_Upload. Its ancient, but justified, if you install the Stable version it was last updated 11-08-2004, five whole years ago.Its a one line install,

pear install HTTP_Upload

I added this to my application,

<p>
 Customer Logo (optional)<br />
 <input type="file" name="CustomerLogo" id="CustomerLogo" />
 <br />
 </p>

Then the code,

	// START CUSTOMER LOGO
	require_once "HTTP/Upload.php";

	$upload = new HTTP_Upload("en");
	$file = $upload->getFiles("CustomerLogo");

	if ($file->isValid()) {
		$file->setName("uniq");
		$UserLogoPath = $file->moveTo('../uploads/customer_logos/');
		if (!PEAR::isError($moved)) {

		}
		else {
	    	echo $moved->getMessage();
		}
	}
	elseif ($file->isError()) {
		echo $file->errorMsg();
	}
	// END CUSTOMER LOGO

Hell, that was easy. I'd have been hacking about for days if I wanted a modern solution!

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