file upload problem: newbie

[paulferree]

Hey guys,

 

I'm new to PHP.  I'm trying to have a file uploaded by a form but I get this error message and I can't figure out why it's not working.  I even copied the exact code from PHPs site.

 

Any help would be appreciated?

 

This is what is produced when the script is run.  (the upload directory is set to 777 BTW)

 

 

Tageted Directory: /uploaded_images/logo.gif

 

Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.

Array

(

    [uploaded] => Array

        (

            [name] => logo.gif

            [type] => image/gif

            [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpW5dLdq

            [error] => 0

            => 8575

        )

 

)

 

Thanks!

Paulo

 

[mem0ri]

Can you help us out by posting the actual code that you're running?  It's impossible to debug something when we can't see it.

[paulferree]

Sorry:

 

HERES THE FORM:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="file_uploaded.php" method="POST">

Please choose a file: <input name="uploaded" type="file" /><br />

<input type="submit" value="Upload" />

</form>

 

 

 

HERE'S THE PHP

<?php

$target = "/uploaded_images/";

$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ;

echo "Tageted Directory: ". $target;

 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target))

{

echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";

}

else {

echo '<pre>';

echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.</br>";

print_r($_FILES);

echo '</pre>';

}

?>

 

Thanks,

Paul

[revraz]

Look at your target directory.

[paulferree]

/uploaded_images/

 

That's my directory.  Is there something wrong in the code that I'm missing? I checked and its set to 777.

 

Thanks

[rhodesa]

Yeah, your target starts with a slash, telling the sever it's an absolute path. I assume you are looking for a relative path (ie the folder uploaded_images is in the same folder as the php script). If that is true, just remove the leading slash:

 

$target = "uploaded_images/";

[paulferree]

Well, I thought that might have been the problem when I was trying upload to a deeper directory, so for testing purposes I just put a folder at the root called "uploaded_images"...

 

Paul

[rhodesa]

here is the PHP with more debug info added, let us know what it outputs now:

 

<?php
  $target = "/uploaded_images/";
  echo "Tageted Directory: {$target}<br>";
  if(!is_dir($target)) die("Dir doesn't exist");
  if(!is_writable($target)) die("Dir is not writable");

  $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']);
  echo "Saving to file: {$target}<br>";

  if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target)){
    echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded";
  } else {
    echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.</br>";
    print_r($_FILES);
  }
?>

 

[paulferree]

Tageted Directory: /uploaded_images/

Dir doesn't exist

 

Ergh....but the directory does exist...

 

I'm sorry, I hope I'm not being a complete idiot!

 

Paul

[haku]

So remove the leading slash and make sure there is a directory called uploaded_images in the same file as the script.

[paulferree]

Well, that worked!!!

 

But I don't understand why it wouldn't work when I had the /script_directory/uploaded_images

 

Thanks for the help!!!!!

 

[Daniel0]

It works because in your code it looked for a folder in the root of the hd.

[rhodesa]

Is this on a hosting service? Cus the folder structure you see in your FTP client isn't always the full system path

[paulferree]

Ok...I can understand that then.

 

Thanks for the help!!  I'm sure there will be more q's in the future.  You've been great.

 

Paul

[rhodesa]

If you are interested in finding the true system path to a specific file put this line in a php file:

 

echo __FILE__;

[haku]

Nice! I didn't know that little piece of code. I'm definitely filing it away for future reference.