two simple questions

[rulian]

1, when i'm doing a file upload, and i specify a directory, let say the php file is in a directory called home, and it want to write to a directory in home called uploads,
aka, home > uploads

should the code read this?

$dir="./uploads";
if(!copy($file, "$dir/$file")) echo "Could not copy file";
else echo "copied okay";

or should the $dir = 'uploads'? or "uploads/"

also, in my code, the copy command is written like this

if(!@copy($file, "$dir/$file") blah blah
what's the purpose of the at sign before the copy string? should it be there or did the book do a typo? it does that twice!, and when I do up in the @ sign, it come back with a different error then when I dont, so I dont know which works.

[Anon]

The @ symbol is used to supress errors that would usually be sent directly to the browser. It's there to allow you to deal with any problems inside the code instead of confusing the user. I'd suggest that you don't use it during development and only put it in once your code is working.

As for your problem your first example should work just fine:

$dir = "./uploads";

That line says use the directory under this one called uploads. You'll have to make sure that the directory exists and that the web server has permissions to write to that directory, but other than that the code should work.