A small cry for H-E-L-P!!

Ton_Wibier

Hiya PhP gurus!

I'm trying to build an upload form, from which one can send files to my server. I am using the following code in the HTML file:

<html>
<head></head>

<FORM ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" ACTION="upload.php" METHOD=POST>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="10000">
Send this file: <INPUT NAME="userfile" TYPE="file">
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Stuur Bestand">
</FORM>

</html>

This is the PhP part:

<html>
<head></head>

<body>

<?php
$userfile_name = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
move_uploaded_file($userfile_name, "e:\test\");
echo $userfile_name;
?>

</body>
</html>

As you can see I'm using a Windows machine, because of the second parameter in the move_uploaded_file command.

I am echoing the $userfile_name to the screen and it looks great, but I can't seem to get the file to move to the e:\test[/b] directory!

Also, you can see I'm using the example out of the manual.

Is there someone who can give me a complete example of how to setup such a HTML upload form and the accompanying PhP file?

Thanks a million!

SOT-wolf

I'm sort of having the same problem myself but needing it to work as an e-mail attachment..

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10220105

coditoergosum

Two problems, 1) You need to use the tmp_name as the first arg to move_uploaded_file, 2) you need to specify the filename in the second arg to move_uploaded_file. I believe you need to use forward slashes too, rather than backslashes... but this I'm not totally sure of, I use forward slashes and it works great.

Try this:


<?php 
$tmp_file = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$userfile_name = $_FILES['userfile']['name']; 
$location = "e:/test/" . $userfile_name;
move_uploaded_file($tmp_file, $location); 
echo $userfile_name; 
?>

Ton_Wibier

Thank you, coditoergosum (what's in a name)!!

That did the trick! My first thoughts were that I didn't have to point to the temp file. Which, of course, was wrong.

Now, thanks to you, everything works like a charm. Thanks again!