Upload a file with 4.2.2 version PHP

wanda46

I had a problem with 4.2.2 version PHP. In the older verison, my codes to upload a file really work, but in this version, it did not work.

The first file displays a form for user to upload a file and called upload.php:

    <form method=POST action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <tr> 
        <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="150">Upload a file:</td>
        <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">  
          <input type="file" name="pic_path" class="text" size="20" ><center>
      </tr>
      <tr> 
        <td colspan="3" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 
          <div align="center"> 
            <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="button" name="submit">
            <input type="reset" value="Reset" class="button">
          </div>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </form>

The upload.php is like this. Notice that I used $_POST to get $pic_path from the above file. But when I tried to output $pic_path, it is nothing.

<?php
$pic_path=$_POST['pic_path'];

echo "File is: ".$pic_path;
copy ($pic_path, "tmp/".$pic_path);
?>

Any idea???? Thanks a lot...

wanda46

Just found if I took away

enctype="multipart/form-data"

Then, I can see $pic_path output by upload.php. But the file won't be uploaded without enctype="multipart/form-data" , right? At least, I got warning like:

Warning: Unable to open 'the file I uploaded' for reading: No such file or directory in upload.php on line 15

Is it possible that the server does not turn on the ability to upload a file, or any other possible reasons?

stolzyboy

likely you are having a register_globals problem, go into your php.ini and turn them on, if that is the problem, turn register_globals back off and code it to work with off, for files you need to access them with

$FILES['nameofbrowsebutton']['tmp_name']
$FILES['nameofbrowsebutton']['name']
$FILES['nameofbrowsebutton']['size']
$FILES['nameofbrowsebutton']['type']