Hi - I think you might want to take a look at $_FILES [a href=\"http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://us3.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php[/a] It's similar to the $_POST array, but exclusively for post-file handling. Also - I assume you have your form set to enctype="multipart/form-data" Also, I think the new preferred way to handle this is the php function: move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'], $image_directory) (rather than copy()) Where $image_directory is the directory you're moving it to and 'userfile' in your case I believe would be addimage Cheers b