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I have been trying Digital File Pro without much success. Firstly I set this up on my Mac using my testing server. All seemed OK except that nothing uploads or downloads, so thought this might be something to do with the configuration of the local server.
So have run some live test on a testing server via my hosting facility, and whichever way I have tried to configure the page it shows completely blank via either Firefox or Safari. Viewing the source indicates that the page breaks wherever the generated php code falls. I moved it around a few locations, and the supplied documentation falls short of showing how code should be inserted into the document.
I am happy in HTML and CSS but know precious little about php, the literature said I didn't have to know php, but that appears optimistic.
Regards
Jack

Let's start with your actual upload page...

Do you have a form that looks something like this?

<form  action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="images" id="images1">

          <label> </label>

          <h2>Image Filename to Upload:

            <input type="file" name="images" id="images">

          </h2>

          <input name="Submit" type="submit" id="Submit" value="Submit">

          <input name="Reset" type="reset" id="Reset" value="Reset">

 </form>

Hi Tom,
And thank you for replying so quickly,

I have been experimenting so the following is the form information I was using.

<form>
<p>
<input name="upload" type="file" size="50" />
</p>
<p>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</label>
</p>
<p>
<input name="download" type="submit" value="download" />
</p>
</form>

I have also pasted the code you sent into a revised version and it makes no difference.

The code that DFP generates is as follows;

<?php require_once("WA_DigitalFilePro/HelperPHP.php"); ?>
<?php
// WA_UploadResult1 Params Start
$WA_UploadResult1_Params = array();
// WA_UploadResult1_1 Start
$WA_UploadResult1_Params["WA_UploadResult1_1"] = array(
'UploadFolder' => "uploads/",
'FileName' => "[FileName]",
'DefaultFileName' => "",
'ResizeType' => "0",
'ResizeWidth' => "0",
'ResizeHeight' => "0",
'ResizeFillColor' => "" );
// WA_UploadResult1_1 End
// WA_UploadResult1 Params End
?>
<?php
WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");
if(isset($_POST["submit"])){
WA_DFP_UploadFiles("WA_UploadResult1", "upload", "0", "", "false", $WA_UploadResult1_Params);
}
?>

Which it puts at the very top of the page before anything else, I have tried moving it.

Thanks
Jack

Your form tag:

<form>

does not set the forms method, or encoding type.


For file uploads to work, the forms encoding type must be set to multipart/form-data. Also, the forms method must be set to post. it's good practice to include an action, name and ID as well:

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="uploadForm" id="uploadForm">

Your form contains two submit buttons:

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
</label>
</p>
<p>
<input name="download" type="submit" value="download" />

Digital File Pro is set to trigger on the one name d submit:

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />

  Viewing the source indicates that the page breaks wherever the generated php code falls.  

can you provide the text of the error when you view the source? The code should go at the top, so to tell what is going wrong, we will need to know the error.

Hi :)

This is a requirement, not an option...

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Many thanks Tom and Jason,
I have now have this working just fine now.
Should not do this sort of thing after a long day!!
Help appreciated.
Jack

I also have a white page. There is no error report because the page is broken by the php code. When I take the php code out the page loads fine. Pity Jack didn't say how he fixed his problem.

I've commented out these two lines ..

//virtual("/WA_DigitalFilePro/HelperPHP.php");

//WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");

and the page loads. If either of those lines are not commented out the page fails to load. Any ideas?

Originally Said By: martin389853

  //virtual("/WA_DigitalFilePro/HelperPHP.php");

//WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");  

Martin,

those lines should read

require_once("/WA_DigitalFilePro/HelperPHP.php");

WA_DFP_SetupUploadStatusStruct("WA_UploadResult1");

Dreamweaver will use virtual() instead of require_once() if the Create Links Relative To option is set to Site in your site definition, try changing it to Document

Thank you. That worked. I should also point out that when I looked at the require_once("/WA_DigitalFilePro/HelperPHP.php"); code and asked myself why that was pointing to another file on the same web server. Realising this I then saw the folder in my local directory (which I hadn't read in the instructions would magically appear in the background site structure). I uploaded the WA_DigitalFilePro folder along with the edited file updating your changes and now the page works.

Thankyou.

No problem, you will find that most if not all WA Server Behaviours will create a folder containing the necessary helper files which are required to be uploaded to your server.