Copy file from a function not working...

[Anon]

I am having a problem copying a file from within a function. I have a feeling that my field "img" that holds the file cannot pass the $img_name variable with it inside the function. This is the short of my function:

<pre>
function uploadFile($username, $folder_name){
GLOBAL $img, $img_name;
$destination = "../tmp/$username-$folder_name-$img_name";
if (!is_uploaded_file($img)) {
echo( "Error with uploaded file" );
return FALSE;
} else {
move_uploaded_file($img,$destination)
or
die("Sorry, file copy failed.");
};
};
</pre>

Now when I try to print all the variables, from within the function, about the $img I get:
$img - path to file on my computer (C://desktop//image1.jpg) but notice the double slashes?....why?
$img_name - shows nothing

Does anyone know where I am going wrong? I have re-written this function several times and came up with nothing so far.....

Chad.

[Anon]

i think you have a small error in your submitting form.. it should be life this:

<form etc, etc>
<input type="file" name="img" value="name_of_the_file_to_be">
</form>

and about those double slashes... that's on purpose, so you don't need to escape them anymore...

[Anon]

What would the value be for?.....I have done this before without a value so I am just wondering....

[Anon]

value specifies the filename, while name specifies the variablename

[Anon]

Just out of curiosity then how did it work before for me without a value?......

[Anon]

I tried this with a value in the input tag.....but I get the same as before: No $img_name attribites.....

[rrijnders]

Looks like you are running php on a winDoze machine, which may introduce some qirks...

Overall, if you are trying to print the $img and $img_name vars from within your "uploadFile()" function, they should print out correctly as long as you are defining them with the GLOBAL directive. If they are not showing up there, try:

print "$GLOBALS['img_name']";

from within the "uploadFile()" function. If that does print the correct value, then you probably have globals turned off in your configuration file and you will have to access varables using the $GLOBALS[] array.

If you are trying to print those vars from within the "move_uploaded_file()" function and you didn't use the GLOBAL directive in that function as well, then you will get the results you talked about; namely, the $img var will be there (because you explicitly passed it as a parm) but the $img_name would not have a value.

The double slashes are probably because you have "magic quotes" turned on in your configuration file.

You probably should check the location for your "temp" directory as well, because you are indicating that they $img value is on your desktop? Probably not the best place for php to be creating temporary files.

HTH

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US

[Anon]

Ok I have gotten a little deeper into my problem:

1. It seems as if it is trying to create the tmp directory on the users computer (this I don not want to happen)

2. Img_name still does not get passed to the function, even with print "$GLOBALS['img_name']";

3. If I plop this function on it's own page with another html file that holds the input. I have no problems with this function working. So what could be the problem?

I'm on apache if that helps at all. Here is my function again with the input tag:

GLOBAL $username, $folder_name, $folder_description;

function uploadFile($username, $folder_name){
GLOBAL $img, $img_name, $img_description;

$destination = "../tmp/$username-$folder_name-$img_name";

if (!is_uploaded_file($img)) {
	echo( "Cannot find file." );
	return FALSE;
} else {
	move_uploaded_file($img,$destination) or die("Could not copy");
	echo( "Copied successful." );
};

};

<FORM ACTION="upload.php" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="250000">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="username" VALUE="<?php echo $username; ?>">
File to upload: <input type="file" name="img" size="30">
<P>
Description: <TEXTAREA NAME="description" COLS="25" ROWS="5" STYLE="background-color: #FFDC63; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></TEXTAREA>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="upload" VALUE="Upload file" STYLE="background-color: #FFDC63; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 9pt;">
</FORM>

[rrijnders]

Try changing your <FORM> tag to:

<FORM ACTION="upload.php" TYPE="POST" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

-- Rich

[Anon]

I feel so stupid.... it was the ENCTYPE attrib. wow....thanx for the tip.

Chad.