Upload permissions

[Elliott]

Hi,

Ive looked around for other people having this problem, but ive never done anything like this before and am struggling to understand it.

I have some purchased webspace on a server, and am unsure of how to set the permission to 777.

<?php mkdir ("/images/", 0777);
	 move_uploaded_file($_FILES['jpgpic']['tmp_name'], "/images/");?>

Thats what i have tried but i just get....

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /home/elliott/public_html/mpa/submit_story.php on line 17

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/images/) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/elliott/public_html/mpa/submit_story.php on line 18

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpkI3O2P' to '/images/' in /home/elliott/public_html/mpa/submit_story.php on line 18

Any suggestions on how to enable myserver to let me upload pictures please?

[cahva]

The reason why you dont manage to create dir is in here:

mkdir ("/images/", 0777);

Theres actually 2 errors in there. First one is because you are trying to create dir on servers root directory. Im quite sure that no ISP will give you that kind of permission 🙂

First check what is your document root with simple php-script:

echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

That should give you the directory where your homepages reside eg.
/home/websites/somedomain.com/public_html

The second error is in the end of "/images/". Dont put "/" at the end, it wont work.

So if you want to create a directory ..lets say to the document root, you would put it like this:

mkdir ("/home/websites/somedomain.com/public_html/images", 0777);

// OR

mkdir ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/images", 0777);

[Elliott]

thanks for that, that made the directory.

Now ive taken out the mkdir bit but still get:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/home/elliott/public_html/mpa/images/) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Is a directory in /home/elliott/public_html/mpa/submit_story.php on line 19

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpkqitZu' to '/home/elliott/public_html/mpa/images/' in /home/elliott/public_html/mpa/submit_story.php on line 19

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['jpgpic']['tmp_name'], "/home/elliott/public_html/mpa/images/");?>

[cahva]

Heh, well you have to give a name to that uploaded file also. You have to give also the destination filename(it doesnt work like normal copy)..

If you want the name to be the same as you uploaded, you can use $FILES['jpgpic']['name'] which is the actual name of the uploaded file:

move_uploaded_file( $_FILES['jpgpic']['tmp_name'] , "/home/elliott/public_html/mpa/images/" . $_FILES['jpgpic']['name']);?>

[Elliott]

you are a star 🙂

Thanks soooo much for fast repsonse, and helping out a noob.

Thanks 😃

Elliott

[Elliott]

On another note now its working...i want to customise my form.

U can change the image of a form button such as the submit button eg:

<input type="image" name="submit" src="images/submit_button.gif">

Now, how do i go about changing the look of this? to use an image?:

<input name="wbmppic" type="file" id="wbmp" tabindex=2 size="35">

I cant find anything on this, hope its possible

[cahva]

Well.. Actually you cant change the Browse button at all. I dont know why its done like that but thats the way it is 🙁

EDIT: I found a hacky way of changing it right after posting 🙂

https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/wlg/692%3Fpage%3Dlast%26x-order%3Ddate