RE: [PHP] More File Uploading Problems

What a mailing list! I very much appreciate the timely and constructive help. From all your responses, I was able to put together a solution for uploading files to a server that worked. Here it is. I created a file called getfiles.php in which I put the form that the user uses to upload his file: (I've left the text and formatting out of this post) <form enctype="multipart/form-data" name="frmUploadFile" action="storefile.php" method="post"> <input type="file" name="fileUpload" size="20"> <input type="submit" value="Upload this file" name="cmdSubmit"> </form> Richard, "size" is the size of the text box into which the selected file goes. I created another file called storefile.php that moves the uploaded file from the default temp directory to the assigned directory: <?php // In PHP earlier then 4.1.0, $HTTP_POST_FILES should be used instead of $_FILES. if (is_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name'])) { move_uploaded_file($HTTP_POST_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name'], "/home/sites/home/users/demodocs/web/ProjDocs/" . $HTTP_POST_FILES['fileUpload']['name']); } else { echo "Possible file upload attack. Filename: " . $HTTP_POST_FILES['fileUpload']['name']; } ?> Note 1: The php manual, http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php, is confusing to us newbies in that it is not clear that there should be a variable file name in the path definition. Note 2: There must be a dot '.' before the '$' in the file name. I had omitted the dot, and accordingly got parsing error messages. Both of the above files are put in the web site root, /home/sites/home/users/demo/web When I point my browser to getfiles.php the form appears and I can browse for files from my hard drive. When I upload the file, it goes to the default tmp directory and is then moved to ../demodocs/web/ProjDocs Note: I got permission denied errors until I fixed chmod for the /ProjDocs directory. Neither 755, 666, 766 nor 622 worked. What works is 777. I'm using PHP 4.0.6 on a Cobalt RaQ4 with Apache 1.3.20 Thanks again, all Roger Lewis