uploading files through php-generated scripts

I've got a strange thing with overriding an ini file in PHP. I'm trying to implement a simple example of a script that allows a file to be uploaded. I put an <INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="myfile" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"> tag on the form, along with a submit button. (yeah, the rest of the HTML is fine...) The script gets the file, uploads it, and the $myfile variable says the uploaded file is named something like "/var/tmp/phpq32345". However, I don't have write permissions to /var/tmp. (Neither does the process doing the actual upload!) I created a php3.ini file in the same directory that contains the script. It has only the line: upload_tmp_dir = myuploads Then I created a directory named myuploads in the same dir with 2777 perms. However, the script never sees this ini file! I printed out the cwd from the script, and it IS the same dir where the php3.ini file resides; I can even exec a command 'ls -l *.ini' and it shows up there just fine. I tried setting $PHPRC inside the script, but that doesn't work. I'm not sure how to inject PHPRC into the php script environment, because the scripts run as user "nobody". I can't figure out how to override the default location. Any suggestions? FYI: this is running on PHP 3.0.14, Apache 1.3.12 on a FreeBSD 4.0 platform. -David Schwartz