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Hi folks
This is the continuing story of building a website for my wife's vintage shop.
First, many, many thanks to Nobbie for helping me to speed up the loading of the web pages - it worked, 6 seconds became a fraction of a second!
Now I'm trying to make a user friendly method for my wife to upload her photos.
I've got to a point where I know what I want to do but don't know how to do it.
In the following code:
<body>
<h1>Photo Test</h1>
<div id="images">
<textarea id="photo1" name="photo1" rows="1" cols="48"></textarea>
<div id="image1" class="image"><img src="http://localhost/Number21AWebsiteEjercicio/photos/$photo1" alt="photo 1">
</div>
</div>
</body>
I want to get the photo file name my wife pastes in the textarea to appear as the value of $photo1 (don't know if I've expressed this variable properly).
I would be very grateful for some help on this.
Many thanks
Mike

You are going in the wrong direction, for file uploads (including photos) HTML Forms have the special input type "file". Here is a link to one of many tutorials, how to work with type="file", especially how to handle it in PHP:

https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

There is no need for textareas including any filename, the type "file" gives you a listbox of local files and also gives you all information (including filename) about the file which has been choosen and uploaded by the user.

Actually, if you want to use PHP to insert the photo1 name in the link, you need to send the form to your server (as PHP is executed on your server, not on your local PC) and finally PHP hast to respond with the appropriate HTML Code to show the photo in an HTML Document.

You could do it with JavaScript instead, so you dont need to send the textarea to your server, but then you have to learn JavaScript as well. I dont get the idea of your code, as already said above, i think you are on the wrong way. I also do not understand, why you link the photo to localhost, you need a local webserver for that, but actually you do not need a local webserver for watching local pictures in a browser. Thats all quite confusing and i dont get the idea.

Thanks Nobbie
I thought I might be a bit lost. I have been using php and what you've said has really helped.
All the best
Mike

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