file uploading - strange troubles

[Anon]

Hello,

I use the following html and php files to handle file upload.

<form ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" action=post.php method=post>
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000">
Upload Option <input type=file name="picturefile"><br>
<input type=submit>
</form>

and post.php

print $HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['tmp_name'].'<br>';
print $HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['name'].'<br>';
print $HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['type'].'<br>';
print $HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['size'].'<br>';

Everything looks fine. First line prints something like 'c:\tmp\php166.tmp'. All other lines give right information. But file is not appeared in that directory (c:\tmp) and correspondingly

if (!move_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['tmpname'], 'C:\z.jpg')) {
print "Cannot move uploaded file !\n";
} else { print "File moved succesfully"; }

print "Cannot move..."

What could be the problem ? I just have no ideas.

Apache 1.3.12, PHP 4.0.4, Window 2000 Pro. FAT filesystem, which doesn't care about permission and anyway php store session files in that directory ('c:\tmp') without any problem.

Leonid

[Anon]

Try 'C:\z.jpg' instead of 'C:\z.jpg'...

[Anon]

I tried. Not works. I tell you there is no temporary file. I mean I print $HTTP_POST_FILES['picturefile']['tmp_name'], it prints something like 'c:\tmp\phpxxx.tmp'
I go to 'c:\tmp' with my file manager and there is no 'phpxxx.tmp' at all.

Leonid
P.S. php4.0.4pl1 not helps 🙂

[[deleted]]

That is normal.
An uploaded file gets deleted when the script stops.
That is why you have to copy/move the file before the script ends.

This is to prevent your temporary directory from filling up.

Did you spot this typo in your move_uploaded_file lines?

['tmpname'] instead of ['tmp_name']

[Anon]

Thank you !
I'm donkey.

But I think it would be better if that fact (about removing uploaded files) is in php manual.

Leonid