[myslowquietlife]

Hi again.

I am not sure this is the right place for this so i am very sorry if i am wrong.

I would like my members to preview their images before upload i have a script in written in Javascript which does this (if it is only for Firefox, %$£& IE)

But i would like to know if this can be done using just PHP, is this possible? or would i always have to use javascript?

Thanks

Ben

[UnrealEd]

There's no way you can create a preview of an image before you upload it to the server. PHP dosn't have access to a user's computer, and therefor isn't able to open/edit/read the image before it is completely uploaded to the server

Where did you find that javascript, cause it's hard to believe it actually lets you preview an image before uploading?

[blinn_shade]

If php can read the fonts on your machine I am sure it can read the path to an image?

Or do I know this because I am running on my local machine.

[UnrealEd]

It can read a path to a local image, but not to a remote image.
If PHP would be able to read data from a remote host, all computers would be hacked in no time. As far as I know, you can't get any access to remote files on a users computer, unles he specifically allows you too (through a 'Open' dialog window, or by opening a port, ....) via a web browser (or for that: any server-sided programming language).

The reason why you could read the image on your local machine is because the fonts are located on your local machine itself.