PHP file upload frustration

Question

Good morning all

I have been playing around with setting up a file upload function on my HTML form and just cant get the file to actually upload onto my server. The directory is named /uploads and is in my root where the index file etc is housed. The form has the right enctype etc and the PHP does not return any errors, i just cant get the file to upload. Please help me ....

The HTML for my input field is :

<td valign="top">File Upload</label></td>
 <td valign="top"><input name="file" type="file" /></td>

PHP is :

   $uploads_dir = "http://www.tenancydepositservice.co.uk/uploads";

    if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) { $tmp_name = $_FILES["file"]["name"]; $name = $_FILES["file"]["name"]; move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "$uploads_dir/$name");}

     $email_message .= "$uploads_dir/$name";

Answer 1

You have wrong temp name it should be

$tmp_name = $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"]

you had

$tmp_name = $_FILES["file"]["name"];

also make sure the form has

enctype="multipart/form-data"

And the file save path is as

$uploads_dir = "path to upload" 

something as

$uploads_dir = "/var/www/project/upload_dir" 

having upload_dir with write permission.

Answer 2

I hope this works:

the php part / file:

<?php
if($_POST) {
    $uploads_dir = './uploads';
    $file_name = $_FILES['file']['name'];
    $file_type = $_FILES['file']['type'];
    $allowed_type = array('image/jpg', 'image/jpeg', 'image/png', 'image/gif'); //this is for images but can be changed to any type of file
    $file_tmp = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
    $path = $uploads_dir.$file_name;

    if(isset($file_name) && !empty($file_name)) {
        if(in_array($file_type, $allowed_type)) {
            move_uploaded_file($file_tmp, $path);
            //if you need to store the file in a db use $path in your query
        }
    }
}
?>

Answer 3

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   <?php


    if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
       {
      echo "Error: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br>";
      }
    else
      {
      echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br>";
      echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br>";
      echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " kB<br>";
      echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];
      }
      $allowedExts = array("gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "png");    //add your extension here
    $temp = explode(".", $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
    $extension = end($temp);
    if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
    || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
    || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpg")            //add extension here as well
    || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg")
    || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/x-png")
    || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/png"))
    && ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 20000)
    && in_array($extension, $allowedExts))
      {
      if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
        {
        echo "Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br>";
        }
      else
        {
        echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br>";
        echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br>";
        echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " kB<br>";
        echo "Temp file: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] . "<br>";

        if (file_exists("upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]))     //create a folder 
          {                                                    //named upload where your 
          echo $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists. ";  //all php pages are stored
          }
        else
          {
          move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
          "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
          echo "Stored in: " . "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"];
          }
        }
        }
        else
        {
         echo "Invalid file";
        }

   ?>

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