Posted by Tom on 12/05/06 19:44

> Maybe magic_quotes_gpc is mucking things up too... Dunno...

That must be it. I'm not sure what exactly the problem is yet, but my
script (unlike the demo) does include a (kind-of auto-prepended) step
that attempts to automatically compensate for magic_quotes. Something
in that must be mucking things up. Time to roll up my sleeves.

Thanks!
Tom

On Dec 5, 11:24 am, "petersprc" <peters...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure why the two scripts are different... I would try ensuring the
> upload_tmp_dir setting has a trailing slash. Maybe magic_quotes_gpc is
> mucking things up too... Dunno...
>
> Tom wrote:
> > I've beat my head every way I can think of against this wall. Maybe
> > someone here just knows the answer.
>
> > I'm testing an upload class on my laptop WAMP server. When I run the
> > test script, everything is fine. When I put together my own form and
> > test uploading the same file, it fails because the
> > $_FILES[$field_name]['tmp_name'] value is missing the trailing slash at
> > the end of the temp dir name, so that the temp name looks like this:
>
> > c:/wamp/tmpphp11.tmp
>
> > instead of:
>
> > c:/wamp/tmp\php11.tmp
>
> > as in the packaged demo script.
>
> > I know that this value is set in php.ini. But that can't be the
> > problem as everything works fine in the demo script. As far as I can
> > discern, this value -- the temp dir name -- is handled internally by
> > PHP and not affected by the script, so I can't even check the value and
> > add the slash if it's missing. So my question: does anyone know why
> > the trailing slash is being dropped in my script?
>
> > I've tried every variation I can think of. I even tried to replicate
> > my error in the demo script by changing some of its form settings. I
> > can't get the two script to do the same thing with this
> > $_FILES[$field_name]['tmp_name'] value, even though everything else
> > should be equal.
>
> > All I can figure is that it has something to do with the forms' x/html
> > settings. The only other significant different between the two scripts
> > is that mine posts to itself and the demo to a separate page.
>
> > Anyway, if you can answer this for me, you'd really make my day! :)
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tom

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