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Weekendrockstar

Here is a link that may lead you to an answer you seek. https://code.google.com/p/html5uploader/[^] This should allow users of your site to drag and drop a file from their OS to be uploaded to your site in their browser. This will create a button to 'browse' but then they should not have to click an upload button and therefore you should not have to display an upload button. You can have it save to a 'dynamic' directory/folder by manipulating the save directory in the PHP page that is shown on that site's page. Let's assume that that want files save into a directory named after the user but all user's folders are inside a directory called user_uploads. You will have to set it to an "id" that, obviously, would be unique to each user of your site. If users have a unique username then it could be $username or if they have a unique ID number associated with their account then it could be $user_id. First change the name of the upload folder to what you want...as described above I am going with user_uploads:

$upload_folder = 'user_uploads';

Then you would have to do an additional change to the lines shown below to add it to the dynamic folder with the user's unique ID.

if(file_put_contents($upload_folder/$username.'/'.$headers['UP-FILENAME'], $content)) {
echo 'done';
}

For safety's sake I would either create a new directory named with a registering members unique ID upon creation of a new account or at least right before the second code shown to make sure that they actually have an existing directory to download into. Although it might be better to go with the second option here as you may have a lot of members who do not want to upload anything and therefore you could end up with a whole lot of empty directories sitting in that parent directory. Creating the directory (with appropriate permissions to store and show images) right before the upload process could ensure that only those users/members that actually want to upload something will have a folder. You can download the 3 files plus the .js file from that link above. However, the link to demo this in action appears to be broken. But it's pretty simple and straightforward so it shouldn't take too much work to change a couple variables, upload to your server and test it yourself. If

Weekendrockstar

This is to expand upon the previously given answer. Yes, HTML and PHP are mixed but there are methods you can follow to split design from content which is usually the way to go whether you are doing all of the site development and then maintaining it yourself or if you're developing the site to be handed over to content people. Here is a VERY simple/rough sample of how I try to achieve this myself:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Title</title>

</body>
</html>

Note: I had to remove the closing PHP tags in the example because it was messing up the rest of the entire post. Now this is the PHP page which you would give to whomever handles the content of each page. They can just keep making copies of the file and name them how they wish to create the multiple pages that make up the site. Now you have: MODULES.php

';

}
?>

In some of my sites I have membership service. If the visitor is not logged into the site, the user_menu function will print out the HTML to create the login form. If they have an account and are logged in then the user_menu function will print a table of links involving their account. All of the checking whether or not someone is logged in is handled in the function located in modules.php. Now, you could do this as many times as is necessary throughout your php files. Just tell the content manager to not touch anything around/within the PHP tags. This will GREATLY minimize the amount of code that you want the PHP interpretor to process being shown within each physical PHP file that someone else will be working with. This is something of a cheap templating system. If you have PHP modules that do not print anything out to the browser then it isn't as important where you place the function calls amongst the HTML tags. But this will give you more solid control over placement of HTML elements/objects that are created by your PHP. I believe that it is