How to File Upload

Rodders

I want a really simple File Upload script on my site. It will sit in my root directory and I only need it to upload files into the root directory.

So I've created a form with METHOD=POST and ENCTYPE='multipart/form-data'. Then I've created the <INPUT TYPE=FILE NAME=filename> and also placed a submit button on the form.

I tested this part by putting:

echo $_FILES['filename']['name'];

and it is definitely working.

Now I have a choice of using copy() or move_uploaded_file() to get the file from the temporary directory into the root directory.

The problem I have is, how do I tell it what the root directory is? I've tried this:

 if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'])) {
  copy($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'], $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);}
 else {
  echo "Problem with File Upload";}

But I get the following error:

Warning: Unable to create '/home': Is a directory in /home/l/u/luminosity/public_html/fileupload.php on line 6

Line 6 is the copy.......

http://luminosity.greater-peterborough.com/fileupload.php

Any ideas?

jerdo

Use move_uploaded_file, to use copy you will have to know exactly where the tmp file was put and it's not worth the extra work if you have a builtin function that handles it for you.

Rodders

copy() didn't seem to have any problems because I used $_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'].

I have got round my problem by specifying the destination filename as "/home/l/u/luminosity/public_html/filename.html".

It's OK for what I am doing, but not much use otherwise.

Anybody know how to specify the root file path without having to hardcode it?

rohithmr

Hey Rodders,
I might be really off here, but what the heck, lets try if dis works.

To the best of my knowledge, copy() needs a source FILENAME and a destination FILENAME. In ur code, i can only see the destination path not a file name. SO i wudd try dis:

$destination=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/" . $_FILES['filename']['name'];
if  (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'])) {
  copy($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'],$destination);
}  else {
  echo "Problem with File Upload";
}

matto

I normally use move_uploaded_file() for this. requires no tmp file knowledge whatsoever.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.move-uploaded-file.php