[SOLVED] PHP File Upload

[Stuart]

Hello everyone,
I have been following several threads about file uploading using php, but I can't figure out how to do it correctly. I have tried several tutorials and all of them end the same way: Error, no success
Here is my form:

HTML: Select all

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload_file.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="100000" />
Choose a file: <input name="uploadedfile" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" />
</form>

This submits the file to upload_file.php, which looks like this:

PHP: Select all

<?php
$target_path = "uploads/";
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']); 

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    echo "The file has been uploaded";
} else{
    echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}
?>

It all looks fine! Now, I tried this out, but it gave me the following errors:

Warning: move_uploaded_file(uploads/arrow.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /opt/www/cport80/swagner/upload_file.php on line 13

Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/var/tmp/phpNbaWem' to 'uploads/arrow.jpg' in /opt/www/cport80/swagner/upload_file.php on line 13
There was an error uploading the file, please try again!

And line 13 contains:

PHP: Select all

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) { 

(Also in the full code above ^). I have no idea why this is happening. I'm quite good at PHP, and I don't see any errors in my code. I think the problem is that my server has this feature disabled, since it says "permission denied", or maybe the connection to the server can't be made... I don't know.

A common error is that the directory is missing. But not in this case, I have created the directory "uploads" on my site...

Any suggestions? Feel free throw anything at me since I understand PHP very well...

Cheers

[alexgeek]

Have you changed the chmod of the directory you are uploading to?
It will need to be 0777. This can be done easily via Cpanel's file manager and other file managers.
In Cpanel you must highlight the directory and select "change permissions".

[Stuart]

I don't have a server with CPanel. Everything is done through FTP as it's a university server (the site is for a professor there).

[alexgeek]

Oh damnit, I can't remember the way to do it via FTP (or if there is one).
Let me have a google for a min.

[Stuart]

I'm not sure you can do it with FTP... I just meant that I have no direct control over the server. So, I can't change permissions...

[saltedm8]

i use smart ftp, and all i do is highlight the folder/file then right click on the file or folder i want and the option is there ( maybe its something like that )

[Stuart]

Nope, nothing there... I use a weird program: FileZilla

[c010depunkk]

In FileZilla: right-click on the folder --> File attributes and set all the check boxes or set the numeric value to 777.

[longstand]

Is this the same as uploading a image to a folder, instead of in a database?? If so i have a some working script i could post you?

[Blake121]

I'm not totally sure, but I think you'd have to give the full path to the image folder. Not just "/uploads". So I think

PHP: Select all

$target_path = "uploads/"; 

Should become

PHP: Select all

$target_path = "/opt/www/cport80/swagner/uploads/";
// change this to the full path to your destination folder.
// I'm guessing it's what's above 

Try that and see if it works.

Blake.

[Stuart]

Thanks everyone, but c010depunkk's solution worked perfectly. The code now works since I changed the folder's permissions.

Thread Solved