[Resolved] [Resolved] Help with $HTTP_POST_FILES

[santopernola]

Hi, I wanted to code a script that uploads a file from the client, and stores it in a upload folder on the server... I tried this script:

• TRY.PHP -

  <form method="post" action="try.php"> 
  <input type="file" name="upload_avatar"><br><br> 
  <input type="submit" value="Upload file"> 
  </form> 
  
  <? 
  
  if (isset($HTTP_POST_FILES)) ???? 
  { 
  echo "Uploading $HTTP_POST_FILES[??]['name'] -"; 
  move_uploaded_file (blablabla); 
  } 
  
  ?>

  This script is supposed to upload a file and send it to himself... but i can't figure out how to access informations such as name, type, size to use move_uploaded_file function and store the file locally on the server... Can you help me? 😃

[feldon23]

<form method="post" action="try.php">

This is an invalid form to send a file. At the very least, you need:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="try.php" method="post">

See handling file uploads in the PHP manual.

[santopernola]

Thanks... But I still have some problems... I already changed the form code, now it's like this:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="prova.php?act=upload" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1048000">
Submit file: <input name="userfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Submit File">
</form>

and the php code is like this now:

if (isset($GLOBALS['act']))
{
  echo "Name: $userfile_name <br>Size: $userfile_size<br>Type: $userfile_type<br><br>";

  $uploaddir = '/uploads/';
  $uploadfile = $uploaddir. $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']; 

  if (move_uploaded_file( $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
    echo "Upload finished!";

}

Now I have a strange error:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/uploads/20010822_007.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to create stream: No such file or directory in C:\Programmi\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\prova.php on line 22

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move 'C:\Programmi\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\uploadtemp\php4A.tmp' to '/uploads/20010822_007.jpg' in C:\Programmi\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\prova.php on line 22

[feldon23]

Ok, you are using PHP on a Windows PC which is a whole different ballgame. I'm not familiar with that kind of setup.