Re: question about uploading files

On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Darrin wrote: > Hey everyone. > > OK, here's my issue, I've installed PHP 4.0 on my win98 machine, running > Apache as the Webserver. Now, I've downloaded a few scripts that should > allow me to upload a file that I specify and put that file in a directory > where I can look at it later. I'm trying to make a photo gallery so people > can upload files and then view what everyone has uploaded. When I run any > script to do this, I get an error that it can't write to the directory. > > here is a copy of one I found on the web that should work and others have > had great success with. > > It should work, but I get an error that it can't be copied. Do I need to > try something else? Did I screw up my installation? Do I need to change > permissions in Apache or PHP somewhere? I wouldn't think so, but maybe I > overlooked something. Please help. > > Thanks. > Darrin > > <?php > function do_upload($filename,$newname) { > $file = basename($filename); > $tmp_upload_path = "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\temp\\"; > $new_file_name = "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\picture\\".$newname; > if (!copy($tmp_upload_path.$file, $new_file_name)) echo "failed to copy > file<br>\n"; > return; > } > ?> > > <HTML> > > <HEAD> > <TITLE>PHP - file upload</TITLE> > <style type="text/css"> > <!-- > body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt} > --> > </style> > </HEAD> > > <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" > VLINK="#800080"> > <?php > > do_upload($userfile,$newname); > ?> > <TABLE> > <TR> > <TD><b>upload report</b></TD><TD></TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>upload tmp file:</TD><TD><?php echo $userfile; ?></TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>file name:</TD><TD><?php echo $userfile_name; ?></TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>target file name:</TD><TD><?php echo $newname; ?></TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>target directory:</TD><TD>c:\apache\htdocs\picture\</TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>file size:</TD><TD><?php echo $userfile_size; ?></TD> > </TR> > <TR> > <TD>file type:</TD><TD><?php echo $userfile_type; ?></TD> > </TR> > </TABLE> > > </BODY> > </HTML> > Try: function do_upload($filename,$newname) { $new_file_name = "c:\\apache\\htdocs\\picture\\".$newname; if (!copy($filename, $new_file_name)) echo "failed to copy file<br>\n"; return; } -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio@openservices.net>