PHP's move_uploaded_file error: Permission denied on Mac

Question

I'm new to PHP and I seem to have a problem uploading file to the web server. I've made myself a simple form and have a PHP file to control the uploading but every time I run the code, I get an error. Here is the code:

<?php
$name = $_FILES['upload']['name'];
$temp = $_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'];
$error = $_FILES['upload']['error'];

if ($error = 0) {
   move_uploaded_file($temp, "images/" . $name);
   echo 'Success';
} else {
   die ('$error');
}
?>

and this is the error:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(images/macbook.jpg): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/doc/ch07/upload_check.php on line 7

Warning: move_uploaded_file(): Unable to move '/private/var/tmp/phpuMC0td' to 'images/macbook.jpg' in /Library/WebServer/Documents/doc/ch07/upload_check.php on line 7

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

error assign vs evaluate if ($error = 0) should be if ($error == 0)

name is from basename. also declare the target before.

$target_path_file = 'images/' .basename($_FILES['upload']['name']);
move_uploaded_file($temp, $target_path_file);