what about returning the error the copy function would have thrown ?
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Nichel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] How do I return the error
> Matthew Oatham wrote:
> > Hi I have this function below - if it reurns false I want to also return
the error so I can print it in my calling function. Can I do this?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > function fileUpload($file) {
> > if ($file['type'] == "image/gif" || $file['type'] == "image/pjpeg"){
> > if (@copy ($file['tmp_name'], "images/" . $file['name']))
> > return true;
> > }else {
> > return false;
> > }
> > }
> >
>
> $error = "";
> function fileUpload($file) {
> global $error;
> if ($file['type'] == "image/gif" || $file['type'] == "image/pjpeg"){
> if (@copy ($file['tmp_name'], "images/" . $file['name']))
> return true;
> }else {
> $error = "Something went wrong";
> return false;
> }
> }
>
> if ( ! fileUpload ( $file ) ) {
> echo ( $error );
> }
>
> Course, there are numerous other ways of doing this. I persoanlly use
> two custom functions to handle/display errors.
>
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> John C. Nichel
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