PHP Upload: failed to open stream: Is a directory

bsewell

Greetings,
I have built a file upload page, and I've just uploaded it to my host. I have tried uploading a test jpg but I am getting the following 2 errors:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(/gallery/) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Is a directory in /home/webworks/public_html/wmb/galleryAdmin.php on line 33

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/tmp/phpLksuaK' to '/gallery/' in /home/webworks/public_html/wmb/galleryAdmin.php on line 33

And abit of my code:

$target_path = "/gallery/";
		$location = $target_path . basename($_FILES['photo']['name']);

Any suggestions? I've tried permissions, uploaded a jpg using my FTP client and checking the permissions of that file which are 777.

Would really appreciate it if someone managed to work out what's the problem 🙂

Cheers

NogDog

What do you get if you echo or var_dump() $location? (I.e.: does $_FILES['photo']['name'] have a value?)

dagon

its unlikely the path is really /gallery/ its the path on your file system which tend to look more like
/home/username/public_html/gallery

bsewell

Ok, I echo'd the $location which prints out

gallery/DirC406.jpg

bradgrafelman

Show us how you're calling [man]move_uploaded_file/man to move the file.

bsewell

Here's the script, no sql error messages either 🙁

$target_path = "gallery/";
		$location = $target_path . basename($_FILES['photo']['name']);

	$categoryId=$_POST['category'];

	if (substr($_FILES['photo']['name'],-3)=="flv")
	{
		$thumb=$target_path . basename($_FILES['thumb']['name']);
	}

	else
	{
		$thumb=$location;
	}

	if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target_path))
	{
		$sql="INSERT INTO tblphotos (categoryId,caption, location, thumbnail, uploadDate, showPhoto) VALUES ('$categoryId',$caption','$location','$thumb','$uploadDate','1')";
		mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
	}

NogDog

Looks like you should use $location instead of $target_path in the move_uploaded_file() call.