Re: the curse of the period

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 17:04, hugh danaher wrote: > I have a php page which gets a file upload from the user and attempts to > put the file in a remote directory. It is failing big time with the > following warning: > > Warning: Unable to create '../landmark/photos/8000.jpg': No such file or > directory in /home/www/location/museum/trees/admin/upload2.php on line 27 > > The directory and file name: > museum/trees/admin/upload2.php > > The directory I want to store the uploaded file is: > museum/landmark/photos/ > > I've tried two dots, three dots and more but have yet to hit upon the > combination of dots, slashes or phases of the moon to keep the program from > puking! > > P.S. The page works if the storage directory is closer. 'closer' has nothing to do with it! Easy way: use absolute directory paths. Harder way: the path is relative to wherever your script which in this case is "museum/trees/admin/", you want to go "museum/landmark/photos/" which is 2 directories up. Thus "../../landmark/photos/" -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Growing old isn't bad when you consider the alternatives. -- Maurice Chevalier */