uploading, tmp file not being created

michaelkenneth

Hi,

I guess first off I should let you know I am using a "newer" edition of apache2triad on my winxp. It is using versions php5 and mysql 4. The problem I am having is that a tmp file is not being created.. after using an upload form.

I get this after the form is submitted when I do a print_r to $_FILES
Array
(
[name] => 2 SIDES.jpg
[type] => image/jpeg
[tmp_name] => C:\apache2triad\temp\php88.tmp
[error] => 0
[size] => 188198
)

The problem is that the tmp_name file is never created.. I've tried using the file_exists function to tell.. but I also cannot see it when I go to that directory/folder.

Has anyone else had this problem before or know how to fix it?

Thanks, mike.

Azala

Did you put

enctype="multipart/form-data"

in your form tag?

Weedpacket

And of course the temporary file is deleted as soon as the script ends (so unless you're really quick you won't see it in a directory listing).

I would expect file_exists($_FILES['field']['tmp_name']) to return true before that, though.

michaelkenneth

This is the form and script that I am using to test, but I am still getting the same exact problem:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>

<body><form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload1.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
    Choose a file to upload: <input name="userfile" type="file" />
    <input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>
</body>
</html>

<?php
$uploadDir = './';
if(file_exists($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name']))
{	
	print 'file exists';
}
$uploadFile = $uploadDir . $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
print "<pre>";
if (move_uploaded_file($_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>";
?>

So I don't know whats going on.

michaelkenneth

I don't know why, but the script just started working. Hooray!!

Thanks for the help anyways.