Posted by jojo on 10/18/06 15:12

Mark wrote:
>>> So, from my understanding, when you use <input type="file"> your file
>>> gets uploaded to some temporary folder...
>>>
>>> But is there a way to change where it gets uploaded?
>>>
>>> On my web server, all sites share the same temp folder..so I want to it
>>> to upload somewhere on *my* site.
>
> However, apparently it can be set in php.ini (since I am using php
> anyways...)

If you have acces to it. But this isn't always the case. Some webhosters
do not givew you acces to it because of security reasons. They perhaps
block some PHP-functions which they consider to be a security problem
and do not want them to get activated again (Just one example, there are
a lot more).
But a way that would always work is to copy the temporary file into your
directory:

copy ($_FILES['NAME_OF_YOUR_INPUT']['tmp_name'],
"PATH_TO_YOUR_DIRECTORY".$_FILES['NAME_OF_YOUR_INPUT']['name']);

HTH, jojo

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