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Unable to get a hold of temp file on PHP file upload

After uploading a file to my server, I can't get a hold of it with the move_uploaded_file() function.

If I do a print_f($_FILES) after the upload, I get the following:

Array
(
[FileUpload1_File] => Array
(
[name] => cat_lvl1_default_banner.gif
[type] => image/gif
[tmp_name] => C:\apps\temp_file_upload\phpFE5F.tmp
[error] => 0
[size] => 15281
)

)

So it seems the upload was successful, no errors (0), and the temp file should be in "C:\apps\temp_file_upload\phpFE5F.tmp", but when I use:

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['FileUpload1_File']['tmp_name'], $new_location);

it fails. To debug, I check for is_writable([$new_location directory here]) and it is fine, I was also able to create a new file in this location manually by doing touch($new_location), so $new_location don't seem to be the problem.

In the other hand, when I tried is_uploaded_file($_FILES['FileUpload1_File']['tmp_name']) I get a false. So for some reason the file is "missing" from its temp location. This temp location folder has the permission set to be writable by all users, so I really don't know why the temp file is not there, or is not accessible to the is_uploaded_file() command.

I also tried copy($_FILES['FileUpload1_File']['tmp_name'], $new_location) instead of move_uploaded_file(), but I get the following error:
copy(C:\apps\temp_file_upload\phpC221.tmp) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I'm thinking this is a Windows Vista issue, I'll try in a linux box, but does anybody know how can I fix this?

Rurne

Check your php.ini. If you're configured using safe_mode_exec_dir or open_basedir, you will need to add "c:\apps\temp_file_upload" to the appropriate path.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.common-pitfalls.php
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.safe-mode.php

If neither of those are enabled, then does this fail for any file? You may also want to check your php.ini for post_max_size and upload_max_filesize; if these are too small, PHP may secretly be discarding the file before it reads the entire POST request, so while it has the tmp_name in the $_FILES superglobal, the file never got written to disc.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.post-max-size
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.upload-max-filesize

cabrera48

ASKER

Thanks Rurne,

But still not working. safe_mode_exec_dir and open_basedir are off and not set, the file sizes I am uploading are small: less than 20K, and post_max_size and upload_max_filesize are at least 2M and up.

I wish I could get low level error messages from PHP about the failure to write from memory to disk and the reason why, is there a way to do that?

cabrera48

ASKER

Question,

When there is a file upload, and nothing gets done afterwards (meaning no move_uploaded_file() or rename() command is run on those files), how long will the temp files are normally kept in the temp folder?

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cabrera48

ASKER

Thanks for all the information,

I just figure it out, the problem is that I was relying on a tool to auto-generate HTML and database insert and update pages (CodeCharge), and in their efforts to make this easier for users, they do some sort of manipulation of the temp/ and final folder destinations for file uploads. If I manually add my own input field independent from those auto-generated by the tool it works as it should.

Sorry about all the confusion, but thanks anyways for all the help.