PHP Upload problems..

[Anon]

Hi
I'm trying to upload a file to my server that is passed to a php script from a html form.
Here is my upload script:
<?
$file2 = basename($file);
echo "$file2";
$dir = '/home/httpd/htdocs/';
if (!copy($file, $dir.$file2)) {
echo "Failed to upload file, please try again soon.<br>";
} else {
echo "File uploaded sucsesfully.<br>";
}
?>

this script works apart from the fact that my result file is something like 'php3iowr' eventhough the name of the file is hello.txt or whatever..
any ideas as to how i stop php from renaming my files?
thank you

[Anon]

The reason this happens is because PHP renames the file to a temp file name. The value you want is present in a variable, but I can\'t remember where.

At the end of your upload script put a phpinfo(); call. At the end of the phpinfo info, it will contain all of the variables passed to the script. One of those variables will hold the file name you started with (hello.txt). That is the variable you want to use for $file2;

Hopefully this helps.

You can always see the variables passed to the script by adding the phpinfo() at the end of your page. This is a useful tool for debugging.

[Anon]

Or look here 🙂

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

Thanks vincent...