You should tell us
1. What happens
2. What you expected to happen that didn't happen.
As Kevin points out your enctype will be wrong but if that doesn't fix it
then I'd guess at the Apache 2. But tell us what the output is anyway.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Greeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 5:04 PM
Subject: Files uploads problem
> I am a learner in PHP - I have been using Larry Ullman's Peachpit
beginners
> book which I have found useful to take me through the basics.
>
> But the examples were written before the general applicaton of the new
> $_POST, $_GET and similar arrays. It has been valuable learning to change
> the code for that (I use version 4.2. (and a bit) and Larry Ullman is
very
> helpful on his own website forum with readers' queries on the book
examples.
>
> But I am having real trouble making a file upload programme work. It needs
> substitution of $FileName given in the example with $_FILES array values
> which I have done and use of isset instead of a raw if(). But I still
> cannot get it to work
>
> May I put the code here and ask if anyone can tell me the problme.
> Incidentally I use Windows ME with Apache 2.0.36 and PHP 4.2.. The files
> upload is on with a max size of 2M and no specific directory given for a
> temp store (the INI says it will use the default directory.)
>
> My test out script is as follows::-
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Uploader</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <?php
>
> if(isset($_FILES['File'])) {
>
> $File=$_FILES['File'];
> $File_name=$_FILES['File']['name'];
> $File_size=$_FILES['File']['size'];
>
>
> echo ("<p>$File_name</p><br />\n");
> echo ($_FILES['File']['name']);
>
> print("File name: $File_name<p />\n");
> print("File size: $File_size<p />\n");
>
>
>
>
> if (copy ($_FILES["File"]["tmp_name"],"users/$File_name")) {
> print("The file was sucessfully uploaded.<p />\n");
> }else{
> print("Your file could not be copied unfortunately.<p />\n");
> }
>
> unlink($File);
> }
>
> echo ("Upload a file to the server.");
> echo ("<Form action=\"FileUpload.php\" method=POST
> enctype=\multipart/form-data\>\n");
> echo ("File: <input type=file name=\"File\"><br />\n");
> echo ("<input type=submit name=\"submit\" value=\"Press here to
> upload.\"><br /></ form>\n");
>
>
> //test whether anything prints for the FILES array
> echo ("<p><em><font color=\"green\">Can I get it to print the variable
> outside the conditional? i.e. this one ----
> {$_FILES['File']['name']}.</font></em></p>\n");
>
>
>
> //set any old variable and print it to be sure basics work
> $TestPrint="<p><big><font color=\"purple\">Print this out
> then.</font></big></p>.\n";
>
> echo($TestPrint);
>
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Is there something I've missed in the script. Or perhaps Apache 2 is the
> problem?
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards
> Adrian Greeman
> Telephone +44 20 8672 9661
> Mobile +44 780 329 7447
>
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>
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