Vincent HELP!!! or others :)

Anon

OK I'm trying to get a sample file uploaded this is what I'm using....

if ($sample) {
$tempfile = stripcslashes($sample);
if ($tempfile_size < 1000000) {
if (copy($tempfile, "tmp_pics/" .$n)) {
echo("Sample Picture received, thank you.");
} else {
echo("Error saving Sample Picture." .
"However, your database information was sent.");
}
} else {
echo("Your Sample Picture was too large." .
" Please select a smaller picture.");
}
unlink($tempfile);
}

I keep getting an error saying...Warning: Unable to open 'C:\WINDOWS\Desktop**.jpg' for reading: No such file or directory in //users/*/*/public_html/add.php on
line 46

But, and here's the snafoo, the directory I'm copying to exists?? Wazup wit dat?

Anon

I think you can probably skip a few steps,
if ($sample && ($sample_size < 1000000)) {
if (copy($sample, "tmp_pics/" .$sample_name)) {
echo("Sample Picture received, thank you.");
} else {
echo("Error saving Sample Picture." .
"However, your database information was sent.");
}
} else {
echo("Your Sample Picture was too large." .
" Please select a smaller picture.");
}
unlink($sample);

Anon

Uuuuummmm....still same error, which is the "real" problem. 🙂 It appears that the script won't copy to the directory...doesn't "see" it?? But it's there!

directory structure is: public_html
|
add.php -> tmp_pics/
|
whereiwanttemppic.jpg

Any clues?

Anon

I need to write to folder, tmp_pics which runs parrallel to add.php. Therefor am I not correct in using (copy($sample, "tmp_pics/" .$n))?? As opposed to say (copy($sample, "./tmp_pics/" .$n)) or (copy($sample, "../tmp_pics/" .$n))?? BTW I tried them all...🙂.

Arrrgggghhhh....

Marcel.

Anon

Have you set the permissions to 777 for the tmp_pics folder? Also try using the full path like /public_html/tmp_pics/whereyouwnattobe.jpg

Anon

Hi Louie,

Yeah I tried both your suggestions, but no go!?

I'm at a loss here...?? BTW I revised the code to try and match someone else's that was working...here it is....

<PRE>
if ($sample && ($sample_size < 1000000)) {
$fileroot = $GLOBALS["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'tmp_pics/';
//Make sure directory exists, if not then create it
@mkdir($fileroot, 0777);

              if (strlen($sample_name)>0){
                         //Strip double /'s (Common error on Win32 systems) 
                         $tempfile = stripslashes($sample);
                         $newfile = $fileroot.$sample_name;
              }
              if(@copy($tempfile, $newfile .$n)) {  //$n appends username to filename so I know who sent it. 
                         echo("Sample Picture received, thank you.");
              } else {
                      echo("Error saving Sample Picture." .
                                  "However, your database information was sent.");
                      }

}
else {
echo("Your Sample Picture was too large." .
" Please select a smaller picture.");
}
unlink($sample);
</PRE>

Anon

OK I got it Louie....and this is for anyone else who doesn't want to look like an idiot! As above noted I was trying to have a user upload a sample file to the server for my preview. I was using a file we'll call it...common.php for the html code. This file was then called by the code I was wrestling with above...add.php. Well, I was suspect of the add.php when in fact the problem was this...
<PRE>
printf("<FORM METHOD=post ACTION=\"%s\" ENCTYPE=\"multipart\/form-data\"><PRE>\n", $actionScript);
</PRE>

See the problem?

I had inadvertently escaped the "/" in multipart/form-data with the "\" key. Big mistake! This will of course change the presentation of the call and stop it.....but with no error...yikes. So for future reference...call me dummy!

🙂 Marcel.

Anon

That's nasty man, spending 3 hours just because of one slash...

Not dumb, clever debugging to find it!

Anon

Glad to hear it! Damn those little details get ya everytime!

Anon

I'll take that compliment, Vincent 😉 And yeah Louie those troublesome little gotcha's. Thanks for your help....always appreciated.

Marcel.

Anon

The key to any writing / exec'ing / reading that must be done via php is making sure that apache/php/the folders are all owned and ran by the same user. Therefore: try making the owner of the folder tmp_pics nobody, seeing as nobody is the default user that apache runs under.
The chown command is as follows:
chown nobody.nobody tmp_pics

I think that should do it.