When you say you need to include a filename, do you mean the
$_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'] or
the variable name identified in the input tag? (name="userfile")
--- Mark Heintz PHP Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You have to include a filename along with the path when you're using
> move_uploaded_file(); if you're only specifying
> '/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/blast/images' as your destination string, php
> is trying to create a file named 'images' in
> '/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/blast'. If there's still a problem,
> the user that your webserver (and therefore php, in most cases) runs as
> may not have write permission to the directory you're trying to move to.
> Make sure the webserver can write to the destination directory.
>
> mh.
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Andrew Rench wrote:
>
> > thanks for the advice- this makes sense as to why I'm not seeing the file. I added
>the
> > move_uploaded_file() to the script to see what happens and I end up getting the
>following
> error:
> > PHP Warning: Unable to move '/var/tmp/phpfcwVyC' to
>'/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/blast/images'
> in
> > /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/blast/upload_test2.php on line 10
> >
> > Am I setting the path wrong? Should it be relative to the 'upload_test2.php' file?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --- "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > -Original Message-
> > > > From: Andrew Rench [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: 24 January 2003 17:05
> > > >
> > > > the following code:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > > ="post">
> > > >
> > > > Send this file:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > > echo $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
> > > > ?>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > produces the following after upload:
> > > >
> > > > /var/tmp/phplSTEVp (or php[something-or-other])
> > > >
> > > > When I view that directory, it is empty.
> > >
> > > When you upload a file, the file PHP puts it in is a temporary file -- hence the
> ['tmp_name']
> > > key -- which is your /var/tmp/php??. Because it's a temporary file, PHP
>automatically
> > > deletes it when the script ends. If you haven't done something with it in the
>script (such
> as
> > > move_uploaded_file() it), it's gone forever.
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > > -
> > > Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser,
> > > Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services,
> > > JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University,
> > > Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom
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> >
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