upload problem - any suggestions?

rhetorical

Here's my situation:

-on shared hosting
-have no access to php.ini
-don't know what my temp directory is
-am using php v4.2.2
-registered_globals is set to ON
-have chmod 777 the file i want to upload to

here are my two files:

upload.php:

<html>
<body>
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="doupload.php">
File to Upload:
<input type="file" name="img1" size="30">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Upload File">
</form>
</body>
</html>

doupload.php:

<?php
echo "n: $img1_name<br>";
echo "tn: $img1_tmp_name<br>";
echo "s: $img1_size<br>";
echo "t: $img1_type<br>";
echo "e: $img1_error<br>";
?>

</body></html>

And the output is:

n: changeLog.txt
tn:
s: 1485
t: text/plain
e:

Why would temp name be empty? I have not been able to get it to upload, so I took out the upload code just to look at the variables themselves when I noticed that was blank. Any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong?

😕

Thanks,
Jillian :p

jerdo

If the file hasn't been uploaded it won't created the temp name. Try using and echoing $_FILES['userfile']['error'] to see if the file is being uploaded or not. Here's a link to the codes that will be returned by this http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.errors.php

rhetorical

First let me say thanks for giving it a look over and offering a suggestion! 🙂 Unfortunately, I wasn't able to solve it.

In the code that I'm currently using, (as posted above) I tried to display the error code with "$img1_error" but in the results it just left "e: " blank (no error code at all).

I went ahead and tried to do it the $FILES['img1']['error'] way, but that gives a parse error. In fact, anytime I use the $FILES array or even the $HTTP_POST_FILES array I get a parse error. I can only use the $filename_name, $filename_size, etc approach, which from what I've read is a problem in itself.

So, the solution is still a mystery. I'm still open to suggestions, though. Thanks.

jerdo

Try this I took your form and hooked it up with a modified version of a script I have running.

upload.php:

doupload.php:

if (is_uploaded_file($img1))
{
$tmp_path= "/path to upload directory";
if (!file_exists("$tmp_path"))
{
mkdir("$tmp_path",0777);
chmod("$tmp_path",0777);
move_uploaded_file($img1, "$tmp_path/$img1_name");
chmod("$tmp_path/$img1_name",0744);
} else{
move_uploaded_file($img1, "$tmp_path/$img1_name");
chmod("$tmp_path/$img1_name",0744);
}//end if user directory exists
} else{
echo "Error uploading $img1";
}//end if file uploaded

Let me know if this helps you.

rhetorical

THANK YOU!

I really appreciate that you took time out of your schedule to give a newbie a clue. It worked perfectly! (I still don't understand all of it, but I'm working on that part. )

Thank you so much for your help!

Jillian 🙂

jerdo

No problem glad it worked if you want any of it explained I'd be more than happy to help.