server wont handle any kind of files

mapexdrum

I am working on a script to upload a photo to a server using PHP's filesystem functions. The problem that I have is that when I try to port an image into the script via an HTTP post variable using the file, the script does not keep the file or anything pertaining to the file.

A few of the things that I have tried to do include using fopen and fwrite, ftp commands through php and even tried to resort to inputting the data into a table in the database.

When it gets to where it should handle the file the file is gone...completely. The funny thing about it is this: my testing server which runs PHP 4.2.2 and the live server runs 4.3.4.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how and/or why this is doing what it is doing. Any thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated because I'm supposed to have this fixed in the next 8 hours and its 3:40 am.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

bubblenut

Can we see the relavent code?
Try doing print_r's on all of the input form input arrays.

<?php
echo("POST<br />\n");
print_r($_POST);
echo("GET<br />\n");
print_r($_GET);
echo("FILE<br />\n");
print_r($_FILE);
?>

Cheers
Bubble

rebelo

Your post is tragically lacking in details. The first thing I would need to know is that you understand how file uploading with php works in the first place and that you're doing it right. By that, I don't imply that you don't know what your doing, but there are a lot of people who have come asking for a little help with such things but really have no understanding of how it works at all.

When you upload it through a page through a FILE type input, the file gets temporarily stored on the server in a designated location which can be referred to as $_FILES['uploaded_file']['tmp_name'], where "uploaded_file" is the NAME of the file input.

From there, you would then move_uploaded_file() to a place where you wish to store the photos or whatever.

Do you already know the basics of these matters and I'm wasting time? Or do you need to start from scratch here?

All the details you can provide will help us help you.

mapexdrum

here is the generic html for uploading:

<? /* ?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Upload a File</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Upload a File</H1>
<FORM action=do_upload.php method=post encType=multipart/form-data>
<P><STRONG>File to Upload:</STRONG><BR><INPUT type=file size=30 name="img1"></P>
<P><INPUT type=submit value="Upload File" name=submit></P></FORM></BODY></HTML>
<? */ ?>
<html>
<head></head>
<body><form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="do_upload.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="30000">
Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file">
<input type="submit" value="Send File">
</form>
</body>
</html>

the following is a sampling of the code that i have tried:

/* if ($photo != "") {
	$photo = addslashes(fread(fopen($photo, "r"), filesize($photo)));
} else {
	$photo = "";
} */

$path = "/hsphere/local/home/mikalj/autobodyusainc.com/parts/images";
$uploadFile = $uploadDir.$_FILES['photo']['name'];

@copy($_FILES['photo']['name'], "$path/".$_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'])
	or die("Couldn't copy the image to the server.");

fopen($_FILES['photo']['name'], "r");

and the follwing is from a second script...some of this comes from PHP's own help file:

<?
/*

if ($_FILES['img1']['name'] != "") {
	echo $_FILES['img1']['name'];
	@copy($_FILES['img1'], "/var/www/html/steve/mng/".$_FILES['img1']['name'])
		or die("Couldn't copy the file.");

} else {

die("No input file specified");

}



<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Successful File Upload</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<H1>Success!</H1>

<P>You sent: <? echo "$img1_name"; ?>, a <? echo "$img1_size"; ?> 
byte file with a mime type of <? echo "$img1_type"; ?>.</P>

</BODY>
</HTML>
*/
?>
<?php
// In PHP versions earlier than 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead
// of $_FILES.  In PHP versions earlier than 4.0.3, use copy() and
// is_uploaded_file() instead of move_uploaded_file.

/* $path = "/hsphere/local/home/mikalj/autobodyusainc.com/parts/images";

$uploaddir = '/images/';
$uploadfile = $path . $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

echo $_FILES['userfile']['name']."<br>asdf<br>";

print "<pre>";
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
    print "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded. ";
    print "Here's some more debugging info:\n";
    print_r($_FILES);
} else {
    print "Possible file upload attack!  Here's some debugging info:\n";
    print_r($_FILES);
}
print "</pre>"; */
$openFile = $_FILES['userfile']['name'];

$remoteFile = $_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'];
$ftp_server = "web3.thisismyserver.net";

// set up a connection or die
$conn_id = ftp_connect($ftp_server) or die("Couldn't connect to $ftp_server"); 
$ftpUser = "****";
$ftpPass = "*****";

$login_result = ftp_login($conn_id, $ftpUser, $ftpPass) or die("couldnt connect to ftp server");

$chDir = ftp_chdir($conn_id, '/autobodyusainc.com/parts/images');
echo "current directory is ".ftp_pwd($conn_id);

$putFile = ftp_put($conn_id, $remoteFile ,$openFile, FTP_BINARY) or die("couldnt upload file via ftp");

ftp_close($conn_id);
//fclose($file);



?>

This is the output i get when using the following:

echo("POST<br />\n"); 
print_r($_POST); 
echo("GET<br />\n"); 
print_r($_GET); 
echo("FILE<br />\n"); 
print_r($_FILE);

And here is the output that is displayed to the browser using my local testing server:
POST
Array ( [MAX_FILE_SIZE] => 30000 ) GET
Array ( ) FILE
Array ( [userfile] => Array ( [name] => 2004-03-13s.jpg [type] => image/pjpeg [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpnqp3wa [error] => 0 [size] => 8488 ) )

Remote server:
POST
Array ( [MAX_FILE_SIZE] => 30000 ) GET
Array ( ) FILE
Array ( )

Note that I used the same file for both of these and can successfully upload using the copy function on testing server but not on remote server. Also, I use GET, POST, FILES, and REQUEST (on occasion) and redeclare variables using these.

I did a phpinfo() and gathered that it would let me upload files up to 2M but even using their control panel script it would not let me upload files to the server.