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Build a PHP 8 File Manager CRUD Web App With Pagination in Browser Using MySQL Database
Jun 7, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this uh
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video in this live stream we will
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building a full web application inside
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PHP and MySQL it's it will be a file
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manager kind of an web application as
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you can see on your screen we have an
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option of uploading files and uh you
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also have the option to delete view the
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files as well and also with
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pagination so this is the interface
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which looks something like this we have
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the option to choose multiple files and
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upload this and for this we are using
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MySQL database as you can see our
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database contain this table which
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contain these five columns id will be
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the primary key file name the MIM type
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file data will be a blob which will
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store the actual file and the uploaded
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at currently the database is empty so if
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you reload the application nothing is
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there so if I try to choose the file
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here if I select all these files
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multiple files so you can see five files
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are selected and as I click the upload
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button you will see instantly the files
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will be uploaded and if I try to refresh
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the table you will see all the files
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will be there in the table so it has
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assigned the primary key we have the
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file name and MIM type all these are JPG
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images and I also you can see we are
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storing the actual files in the database
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inside the blob so I will show you how
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to do this and this is the timestamp so
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if you click on this you will see this
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is the actual file that is stored inside
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the database so if you try to view these
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files here we have various buttons out
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there we can view the file we can
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download we can delete all the four CRUD
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operations you can perform create read
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update and delete if I click the view
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button you will see the actual file will
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display the in this case it is the
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actual image file and you can see we can
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download this as well so this will
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download this from the database and this
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will be the actual image file which you
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have downloaded you also have the option
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to delete so if you click the delete
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button it will say that are you sure you
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want to delete this i will say okay then
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that image will be deleted you can see
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it will also delete it from the database
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as well so now only three entries will
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be there so now you can see it has been
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deleted from the database as well so
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this is actually the application guys
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and also pagination as well if you see
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we are showing three files per page so
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now we have three pages right here so we
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are on the first page if I navigate to
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the second page the URL will change so
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if I go to the third page you will see
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that so next three images will show up
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so it's a fullyfledged file manager kind
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of a web application where you can
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upload delete view and download the
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files with pagination so it's a full
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project if you are interested to
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purchase the full source code of this
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project the link is given in the
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description i will show you step by step
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how I coded this this will be the
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directory structure you will see we have
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using MySQL database and PHP 8 which is
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the latest version and this is all the
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directory structure you will get after
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you purchase the source code the link is
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given in the description so now let's
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get started i will delete everything and
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start building this application from
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scratch so let me delete
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everything and for this you need to have
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a way to run PHP code the most basic
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thing you need to have is exam control
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panel if you are on Windows it's a
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cross-platform software so it basically
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comes with Apache web server or MySQL
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database i've already started both these
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things and just go to the admin section
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PHP myadmin and right here you need to
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create a new database i've already
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created one database right here if you
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see which is my website which is free
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media tools.com or you can create a new
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one let's
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suppose file project
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so create a database and right here you
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need to
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uh I will define this file here which
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will be your DBS SQL file so it will
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contain all the databases all the tables
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so inside this database you will
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actually write the SQL code create table
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if not
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exist we'll call this table name as
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files and inside parentheses you will
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specify the column names first one will
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be the actual column name for
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storing the primary key so this will not
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be null and it will be auto increment so
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this means that this will be unique and
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auto
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increment primary key of the table and
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then we have the actual file name this
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will be of type
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vchar and the limit will be 255
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characters and it will be not null the
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next column will be for storing the mim
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type which will be the extension this
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will also be of var 255 and also it will
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be not null next one will be the actual
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content that you want to store this will
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be in long blob syntax and it will be
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not
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null and lastly we also have the column
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to store the date in which that file was
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uploaded so for that we'll be using time
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stamp and it will be not null and the
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default one will be the current time
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stamp which will the current date and
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time
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and then we will simply set the id to be
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the primary key of the table so in this
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way we can set
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this and lastly you just need to provide
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the engine so these are some constant so
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I'll paste
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it so now you what you need to do you
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just need to paste this code inside your
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PHP myadmin go to the SQL section and
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this will create automatically the table
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based upon the schema that you pasted so
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now we have the go button so just click
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this go button and then it will create
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your database so go to this structure
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right here now this table you will see
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the files table has been successfully
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created and if you see the structure you
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have five columns id is the primary key
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file name MI me type content uploaded at
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now we start building the actual
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application so just define your basic
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file here index dot PHP which will be
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the homepage of the application so right
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here we are using some Bootstrap as well
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for styling purposes so we will simply
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have first of all our HTML file so here
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you just need to include the CDN of
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Bootstrap simply include this and right
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inside we will just give it some
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bootstrap
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class container
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class and inside this we will have an H2
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heading and a simple form which will be
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responsible
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for for this application you have a
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simple form here and H2
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heading so if you go to the application
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now just say
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localhost file upload you will see this
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form here it is tiled using bootstrap
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classes and uh the nice thing is that
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inside this we are making a simple post
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request to this upload dot php so now we
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just need to define this php script
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which will handle the actual uploading
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of the files we are making a post
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request right here if you see that and
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then inside this form we have this input
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type we are having this name parameter
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files and here we are putting this
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attribute multiple so for allowing
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multiple file upload then we have the
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button to upload the file as soon as we
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click
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this now we define this script here
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which will be responsible for uploading
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so upload dot PHP so right
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here we will actually write the code
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for uploading the file so right
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here
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we put the PHP
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tag so inside
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this the very first thing we need to do
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we need to define this uh DB file
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db.tphp dot php which will hold the
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connection code so that we can connect
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to this database for connecting to the
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database it's quite easy you just need
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to write this basic PHP code so here you
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will define your host name so here we
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are developing on local host and then
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you just need to provide your username
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which in this case is
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root and then we need to provide the
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password by default it is null and then
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the database name so in my case it was
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free media tools 1997 this is the
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database name after you provide this now
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we make the connection so now for making
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the connection we say mysqli and we pass
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both all these things host name then we
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have the user then we have the password
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then we have the database name so after
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passing all these things our connection
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will be
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made and if any sort of error take place
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we
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can have
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this
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display we will display this message
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that connection failed so now we just
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need to include this file inside our
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upload dot php so right here whenever we
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are doing anything we need to first of
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all upload uh include this because first
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of all we need to make the connection to
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the database so now for including it we
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simply say require and then the script
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name which is
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db.tphp after that we put a semicolon
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and uh then we simply in the if
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condition if is set so here you'll be
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checking that if the files are there if
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the files are there then we will simply
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get the files using the files array in
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PHP so this needs to be whatever is the
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name attribute that you have given so
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our name attribute is you can see we
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have given this name attribute which is
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files so that's the same and name
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attribute that we are using so just make
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sure that you put semicolon in PHP
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because if you don't put this you will
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get an error so just put this semicolon
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and after that you just need to get the
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total number of
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files so because we are uploading
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multiple files so this will actually
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contain the total length of files which
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are
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there and then we just need to run a
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simple for loop for looping through each
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file so you will declare a variable I
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which will start from zero and it will
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run until the total number of files and
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I
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++ this is a simple loop and here we are
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simply checking that if no error is
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there so we have
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this property inside PHP
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if this triple equal
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to upload error okay if all things are
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okay if this is the case then we will
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upload the actual file name so we'll
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give it a file name right
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here like this and then we also give the
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MIM
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type which we also get using the type
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property right here
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and then we get this data that needs to
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be stored inside the
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blob file get
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contents because if you see we define
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this blob that you see this is we are
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storing the actual image right in the
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database itself so we are storing this
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blob
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so
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files and it has a property here which
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is temp
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name you can even store it in a folder
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but we are storing directly in the
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database so this is another technique
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that you can do and then we are simply
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executing this query by using prepared
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statements inside PHP so we simply call
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this function which is
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prepare and then we run the simple SQL
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query insert into and then the table
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name and we here define all the
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columns
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so the file name then we have the MI
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type the file data and then you put the
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actual
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values question mark question mark
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question mark this is actually the
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prepared
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statements after you do
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this you
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simply declare this variable and then
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you
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call bind
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parameters bind param and here you
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pass all these four parameters and then
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execute this so let me just write this
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this
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is the script here we are executing this
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query after we do this we just need to
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redirect the user back to the index dot
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PHP file so for this we use the header
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function index dot PHP and exit from the
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script that's all
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so if you try
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to refresh the application and uh if you
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select
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here these three files click on upload
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so now you will see it is setting path
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cannot be
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empty upload.php on line number three so
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I think there is some kind of error
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in let me say
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db.tphp i think there is some kind of
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typo mistake let me paste this so you
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will get all the source code once you
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purchase it the link is given in the
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description so let me just run this now
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again select multiple files click on
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upload you will see unknown column file
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data on line number
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14 let me put this on the same line i
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think there is some kind of mistake in
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formatting uh sorry I think I called
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this as
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content that is why this file data
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doesn't exist if you check the database
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the file data doesn't exist
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we called it as content so just we need
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to replace instead of file data we need
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to say content and I think this will fix
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the problem if I refresh
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it so now you will see there is no
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problem if I try to refresh it all these
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four
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files is successfully uploaded you will
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see it has given the primary key 1 2 3 4
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we have the file name we have the MIM
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type so all these blobs are stored right
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here in the content and these are the
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timestamps so now we just need to
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display this whenever we reload the page
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inside a Tableau structure so now we
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need to go to
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index.tphp and uh we need to display
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this in a tablo structure so for
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displaying it it's very
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easy
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so we need to display it in a paginated
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manner because we only need to see three
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records per page so for this we need to
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write some PHP code right here so
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just open the PHP tags and we just need
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to first of all require the DB script we
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require it and then we set the limit how
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many records you want to show so I want
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to show three records and here we simply
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set the current
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page which will
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be if the current page exist then we
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need to get the
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maximum this is uh the pagination logic
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guys we get the current
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page after getting the current page we
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calculate the
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offset by this formula which
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is the current page whatever is the
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current page we need to subtract one
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from it and then multiply the how many
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records you want to display so this is
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present in the variable of limit so then
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you can calculate it this is the formula
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after we get this now we just need to
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get the total number of records that
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needs to be displayed so for this we'll
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read the data from the database by using
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this function query and here we'll be
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executing this select query and count
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and we'll count all the records which
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are present so count star as count from
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the table name which is files and then
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we get all these data in a associative
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array so we basically call this function
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fetch
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associative and then we get the count
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value so this will get the total number
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of records which are there so from this
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we will calculate the variable which is
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total pages so we
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simply get this by dividing it by the
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limit so if the total records are 15
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then we divide this by three so it comes
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out to be five so in this way we get the
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total number of pages and then we get
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the actual data that needs to be
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displayed so for this once again we use
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the connection object uh again we call
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use a
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prepared prepared statement and we will
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again get the id file name me
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type from the table name which is files
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and we need to order it by descending
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order so that the latest files comes
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first uploaded at
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descending and we just need to say limit
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question
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mark so now we just need to execute this
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query so for executing it we simply use
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the bind
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param then we simply execute this
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then we get the result right
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here by calling this get result function
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so now we get this records in this
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variable of result now we just need to
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display this so for displaying it so you
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just need to add this uh CSS code for
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the model window for showing the images
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in the model so just add this stylesheet
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code this is not important to the
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application so just add
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this so right after the form we will
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display this in a tableau structure so
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we define
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this let me just paste
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it this is all the
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HTML so here we are simply adding some
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PHP code as well if you see we are
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looping through in a while loop showing
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all the
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records simply calling result fetch
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associated and then we are putting all
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these properties the ID file name then
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we
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also binding some buttons so once you
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click these buttons we will execute view
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image then we have the download PHP
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script as well we are passing the uh
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primary key of the record that we want
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to download similarly for delete as well
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so we need to define all these scripts
22:30
which is download delete
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and this one for the view
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image
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so then after that this table we will
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have this
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pagionation if you just try to refresh
22:57
the table application now you will see
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the records will display this is all the
23:03
records which are displaying the buttons
23:05
will not work because these scripts
23:07
haven't been defined so after this table
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we'll add
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the the model code here if you
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see this is the model window whenever
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you click the view button the images
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will show in a model window so for this
23:35
we need to add some JavaScript as well
23:39
when you click the model the model will
23:41
show these are
23:43
all currently if you click the view
23:45
button this model will be empty because
23:47
we need to define the script which will
23:50
be responsible for showing the image so
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we just need to define
23:59
a script view dot PHP so inside this PHP
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script we will
24:06
write the PHP code which will be
24:08
responsible for fetching the image and
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displaying it in the model window so we
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first of all
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require the DB
24:19
script and we get the ID of the image
24:22
that needs to be displayed
24:25
so we get the ID like this and see we
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convert this into integer by type
24:31
casting it and storing it in this ID
24:34
variable and then we
24:37
simply return the image this will be the
24:41
PHP script we will search the table
24:45
based upon this primary key that is
24:47
there inside ID we will say select file
24:50
name type file data from where id is
24:53
equal to and then that id it will return
24:56
the record and you will display this so
24:59
if you refresh
25:01
now if you click
25:11
view and
25:13
similarly we also need to
25:16
define the scripts for deleting delete
25:20
dotphp and download dotphp so these
25:24
scripts will be responsible for
25:26
downloading the file and deleting it
25:30
and let me just paste it this is the
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code for downloading it's very simple
25:37
code again we first of all
25:41
require the db.tphp the connection code
25:45
after that we get the primary key again
25:47
by dollar get id we store it inside this
25:51
and then we get the record by again
25:53
writing this prepared statement we
25:56
execute and get the record and then we
25:59
actually send this the headers and eco
26:05
data so if you click the download button
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you will see
26:10
the unknown column file data that's the
26:14
problem uh because it is not file data
26:18
it is content so here also in the view
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dotphp also I made this mistake this
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needs to be
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content that was the mistake I think and
26:28
now the image will also
26:33
show if you click download you can see
26:36
the image is successfully
26:40
downloading and similarly we have the
26:43
delete PHP as well this will be very
26:46
similar
26:48
through the primary key we will get the
26:52
record that we want to delete again by
26:54
dollar get ID we get the ID we get
26:58
prepare delete from files where ID is
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this and we execute the query and
27:03
redirect the user back to the homepage
27:05
so if you refresh
27:09
now click on
27:12
delete so now you will see that record
27:15
is deleted only two records are there
27:18
and if I see the database as well so
27:20
those two records are successfully
27:23
deleted so we download button is working
27:26
delete yes upload is also working if you
27:29
upload the
27:33
files so this is the first page this is
27:36
the second page you can see the
27:38
pagination is also working
27:40
so the full source code guys is given in
27:43
the description of the video this view
27:45
button uh I think I made some kind of
27:49
mistake in the index.php so what I will
27:51
do for the not wasting your time I will
27:55
simply
27:57
paste all the code
28:01
here there will be some typo mistakes
28:09
so I just need to search for this column
28:12
name which is filed
28:28
data so you will get this source code
28:31
guys in the zip file the link is given
28:34
in the description it's a full file
28:35
manager app that we
28:37
developed and thank you very much for
28:40
watching this video
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