Where do PHP uploaded images go to

SoulBriski · ‎15-06-2007

Hi
when using php script to handle uploaded images, where do the images go?
I am trying to give my site visitors the option to submit images so i have created a simple form that submits the selected image to an 'upload.php' script
in the script, i've set the destination directory to "uploads/" and used the following code to check the uploaded file

if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name']))

This line of code always returns true but the image is nowhere to be found!
Where has it gone?
any answers would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

MikeWhitehead · ‎19-08-2007

Have you read this?
I'd help more but, for now, my cat has decided the keyboard is a good place to lie down (needed to push her about to type this message!)

SoulBriski · ‎15-06-2007

thanks for your help mike
in the short time since i posted this i have found the simplest of solutions.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="form1" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data"> 
	<input type="file" name="imagefile"> 
	<br> 
	<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"> 
	
	<?php
	if(isset( $Submit )) { 
		//If the Submitbutton was pressed do: 
		
		if ($_FILES['imagefile']['type'] == "image/gif"){ 
			copy ($_FILES['imagefile']['tmp_name'], "uploads/".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'])
			or die ("Could not copy"); 
			echo "";  
	        echo "Name: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['name']."";  
	        echo "Size: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['size']."";  
	        echo "Type: ".$_FILES['imagefile']['type']."";  
	        echo "Copy Done....";  
	    } else { 
	        echo "<br><br>"; 
	        echo "Could Not Copy, Wrong Filetype (".$_FILES['imagefile']['name'].")<br>"; 
	    } 
	} 
	?>
</form> 
</body>
</html>

this is rough but it works perfectly well and it couldn't be easier.
it's almost to easy to be true

Peter_Vaughan · ‎30-07-2007

Actually that's hard. Just use move_uploaded_file()
Files are uploaded as temporary files to the servers /tmp directory from where you can move them to your local (server) storage using move_uploaded_file(). See the php.net website for how to use it.

SoulBriski · ‎15-06-2007

Thanks Peter
I understand the move_uploaded_file() function a bit better now and it seems to be working.
This function suits me better anyway because stage 2 of my process is me moving the images to their new permanent location.
Users upload their images to the temp directory and they stay there until i have vetted them. I then use this function again to upload them to the gallery

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