Retrieve file path through browse input button

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I need to get the full file path including file name information to handle later with PHP. I am running into many difficulties.

We can use a html form with the html

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" />

However, to pass this information we need to the server, we actually have to upload the file, I do not want to do this as its wasteful, The reason being is that this project is just for my local machine, The file already exists on my machine.

A manual way of achieving this is to provide a input text field, and inserting the file(s) full location path here via another file navigation window(copy/paste), But this quickly becomes boring and requires to much work when using the tool often.

Any other suggestions to achieve this?

I would like to refer you to see [this post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18789934/browse-button-without-file-upload-in-html) answered by @jumpingcode — , Feb 02 '14 at 08:21
also have a look at these two: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1418193/how-to-get-file-name-from-full-path-with-php — soulemane moumie, Feb 02 '14 at 08:30
and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11955603/php-browse-a-file-then-get-its-path — soulemane moumie, Feb 02 '14 at 08:30
Well that certainly sucks, I guess I would have to deal with this completely out of a browser elsewhere. — cecilli0n, Feb 02 '14 at 08:33
This has nothing to do with complexity. You are trying to missuse the browser for something it is not designed for. You cannot blame the browser for that. — arkascha, Feb 02 '14 at 08:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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This isn't possible. This has been discussed before and the explanations they give there are good, so I won't repeat:

How to get full path of selected file on change of <input type=‘file’> using javascript, jquery-ajax?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Feb 02 '14 at 08:21

Ed Grosvenor

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score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 06 '15 at 15:47

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paste following line under file tag,your problem will be solved webkitdirectory directory multiple

<input type="file" id="ctrl" webkitdirectory directory multiple/>

edited Oct 06 '15 at 15:47

resueman

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answered Oct 06 '15 at 15:17

Rahul Chouksey

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– Rahul Chouksey Oct 06 '15 at 15:20

Retrieve file path through browse input button

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