PHP move_uploaded_file() error?

Question

I using following code and it is successfully uploading files on my local machine. It is showing "Successfully uploaded" on my local machine.

// Upload file $moved = move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "images/" . "myFile.txt" );  if( $moved ) {   echo "Successfully uploaded";          } else {   echo "Not uploaded"; } 

But when I used this code on my online server then it is not uploading file and just showing message "Not uploaded".

How can I know that what is the problem and how can I get the actual problem to display to the user ?

Answer 1

Edit the code to be as follows:

// Upload file $moved = move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], "images/" . "myFile.txt" );  if( $moved ) {   echo "Successfully uploaded";          } else {   echo "Not uploaded because of error #".$_FILES["file"]["error"]; } 

It will give you one of the following error code values 1 to 8:

UPLOAD_ERR_INI_SIZE = Value: 1; The uploaded file exceeds the upload_max_filesize directive in php.ini.

UPLOAD_ERR_FORM_SIZE = Value: 2; The uploaded file exceeds the MAX_FILE_SIZE directive that was specified in the HTML form.

UPLOAD_ERR_PARTIAL = Value: 3; The uploaded file was only partially uploaded.

UPLOAD_ERR_NO_FILE = Value: 4; No file was uploaded.

UPLOAD_ERR_NO_TMP_DIR = Value: 6; Missing a temporary folder. Introduced in PHP 5.0.3.

UPLOAD_ERR_CANT_WRITE = Value: 7; Failed to write file to disk. Introduced in PHP 5.1.0.

UPLOAD_ERR_EXTENSION = Value: 8; A PHP extension stopped the file upload. PHP does not provide a way to ascertain which extension caused the file upload to stop; examining the list of loaded extensions with phpinfo() may help.

Answer 2

Try this:

$upload_dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/images/";  if (is_dir($upload_dir) && is_writable($upload_dir)) {     // do upload logic here } else {     echo 'Upload directory is not writable, or does not exist.'; } 

This will instantly flag any file permission errors.