[PHP] Uploading Files through PHP

[Georgie Casey]

I'm trying to let users upload word files through a PHP form but its not
working! The script keeps telling me that the file path doesn't exist.
HERE'S THE CODE I USE IN THE FORM PAGE:

FORM ENCTYPE=multipart/form-data ACTION=freelancers/uploaded_word.php
METHOD=POST
  INPUT TYPE=hidden name=MAX_FILE_SIZE value=1000
  p align=center
input type=submit value=Upload name=submit
input type=file name=wordcv size=30
  /p
/form

is the code on the form page, when i submit i'm told the $wordcv is a null.
WHY??

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Re: [PHP] uploading files through php-generated scripts

[David P. Schwartz]

Richard Lynch wrote:

  I've got a strange thing with overriding an ini file in PHP.
 
  I'm trying to implement a simple example of a script that allows a file to
 be
  uploaded.
 
  I put an INPUT TYPE="file" NAME="myfile" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
 tag

 ENCTYPE goes in the FORM tag, I think...

maybe, but this is copied straight out of a PHP book I've got by Judy Meloni

  on the form, along with a submit button. (yeah, the rest of the HTML is
  fine...)
 
  The script gets the file, uploads it, and the $myfile variable says the
  uploaded file is named something like "/var/tmp/phpq32345".  However, I
 don't
  have write permissions to /var/tmp.  (Neither does the process doing the
  actual upload!)

 What process is it that you think is doing the upload?...

PHP scripts run as user nobody on this system

 It's usually "nobody" who owns it, which usually does have write access to
 /tmp files.  Or, maybe in your OS, /var/tmp files.  If PHP says it got it
 there, it probably did.

PHP gives me a file name like what I showed above, but it's not there by the
time the script tries to copy it.  We're not talking a huge script here -- an
exec( "ls -l $myfile" ) doesn't find the file.  If it was ever there, it's gone
almost instantaneously.

 But then you must copy it or process it, because
 PHP will delete it when the script ends -- to avoid a denial-of-service
 attack where somebody tries to upload a million little files through your
 web-server to fill up /tmp.

  I created a php3.ini file in the same directory that contains the script.
  It has only the line:
 
 upload_tmp_dir = myuploads
 
  Then I created a directory named myuploads in the same dir with 2777
  perms.
 
  However, the script never sees this ini file!  I printed out the cwd from
  the script, and it IS the same dir where the php3.ini file resides; I can
  even exec a command 'ls -l *.ini' and it shows up there just fine.

 You can't do that in a php.ini file in the same directory.
 You *can* do it (maybe) with an .htaccess file, if Apache has .htaccess
 turned on in httpd.conf, and upload_tmp_dir isn't one of the
 non-over-ridable directives.

The things I've read say the php3.ini file goes in the "current directory".  I'm
not sure which one that is, but it's obviously not the one containing the script
files.

Any other ideas?


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