Thanks, but it make the test to move on to other things like, size($filename) which tells me the file does not exist.
Chris "Manuel VáZquez Acosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It may be an OS feature file_exists relies on... > But you can use is_uploaded_file() function to check whether the file exists > or not. > > Manu. > > > "Chris Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm again trying to understand differences in Apache and Windows installs > of > > PHP when I try to upload a file to the server. It seems on Windows, I > can't > > get the file I'm uploading. > > > > To try to understand this I created a very simple html form that uploads a > > text file to the server's TEMP directory using: > > > > <form action="Upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> > > > > The script Upload.php contains the following: > > > > $filename = $_FILES['datafile']['tmp_name']; > > echo "filename: " . $filename ."<br>"; > > > > if (file_exists("$filename")) { > > print "The file $filename exists"; > > } else { > > print "The file $filename does not exist"; > > } > > > > echo "<br><br>"; > > > > @readfile($filename); > > > > echo "<br><br>"; > > > > Now the file seems to have been copied to the server because filename > prints > > out the path to the file and @readfile($filename) displays the content of > > the file. However, file_exists tells me the file does not exist. I also > > tired getting file size but again I got an error no file exists. > > > > Of course this all works on Apache. What is up with this? > > > > Thanks > > Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
