# Uploading Files
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [July 26, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868 "2004-07-26T18:56:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dreamerp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreamerp)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/1 "2004-07-26T18:56:37Z")
Hey,
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I was wondering if anyone knew a tutorial, site, or by heart how to create a form to submit a file to a database and then display that file and be able to download it. All suggestions help, thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/2 "2004-07-26T20:16:10Z")
[http://www.netspade.com/articles/php/uploading.xml](http://www.netspade.com/articles/php/uploading.xml) should work, I learned from a book called PHP By Example though. Also, you might want to try google 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/3 "2004-07-26T22:46:38Z")
I would like my images entered in a database or some place that I can have a command to display whatever image is placed in there.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 11:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/4 "2004-07-26T23:07:03Z")
> [@dreamerp](#):
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> Hey,
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> ```
> I was wondering if anyone knew a tutorial, site, or by heart how to create a form to submit a file to a database and then display that file and be able to download it. All suggestions help, thanks!
>
> ```
Basically you would have the following:
1. A form that sends your server side page values/files to be uploaded.
2. Assuming your using PHP your code would look something like this (i got this somewhere on the forums might have changed some of it i forget)
uploadfile.php
```php
Click here to look up all the values in items table
```
That uploads the file and entering the information into a database. The code is easy and self explanitory.
1. Create a page for the user to view files (in my case images that go to flash)
viewfiles.php
```php
:: Look Up Stuff ::
Your Image
```
And thats about it
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/5 "2004-07-27T16:19:04Z")
Can I have some of the sql for the table information?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/6 "2004-07-27T18:01:50Z")
I dropped the database but you can see my values in my SQL statements
Table name: file\_uploader
Fields: file\_id, file\_directory, file\_description
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/7 "2004-07-27T18:03:44Z")
Not sure if digitalosophy mentioned this, but make sure that your mySQL column is blob type.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/uploading-files/58868/8 "2004-07-27T23:23:35Z")
Hmmm, I can’t really find the properties of the tables in the code :-/