RE: [PHP-GENERAL] WHY does file upload work only on local server

Helmut, I had some trouble with that earlier. What it is saying is that the image, c:\images\image1.jpg does not exist in /u/web/quarti/system_htm/aw.php3 (/u/web/quarti/system_htm/c:\images\image1.jpg). You need to strip down the path to its pure filename before doing this. In order to do this, you will need to use the block of code below: $image_name = "c:\images\image1.jpg"; // this will read the data up to the backslashes, then split them // c: will go into image_info[0], images will go into image_info[1], image1.jpg will go into image_info[2] $image_info = split("\\\\", $image_name); // this counts how many cells have been filled in the $image_info array $image_count = count($image_info); // retrieves the image file name ($image_count-1 is used because the array starts with 0 while count starts with 1) // chop gets rid of white space $image_str = chop($image_info[($image_count - 1)]); // this is the path on the server you want the image to be saved in. image_str is the file name. $image_file = "images/" . $image_str; // this will save c:\images\image1.jpg to /u/web/quarti/system_htm/images/image1.jpg copy($image_name, $image_file); Hope this helps! Chris -----Original Message----- From: helmut ott [mailto:haott@freenet.de] Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 4:38 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-GENERAL] WHY does file upload work only on local server Tricky image uploading. Everything works fine on my local server. But on the remote server the scripts wants to find the local file path on the remote server?! (E.g. I have a file input field and enter the local file path of the image to be uploaded, e.g. c:/images/image1.jpg. When I submit the form the script replies : "... Warning: Unable to open 'c:\images\image1.jpg for reading: No such file or directory in /u/web/quarti/system_htm/aw.php3 on line ..." (which is the path of my remote server, where my php-script is) So how can I make the server (apache/unix) read the file in the local source-directory and then upload it (which works without any problems when I run the script on my local server pointing to another directory containing an image-file). Does anybody know the TRICK? Thanks alot Helmut