Posted by Shelly on 10/25/07 15:54

"admyc" <admyc@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1193324639.891114.316160@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> Hello
>
> I am having trouble making PHP web page that uploads an image file and
> moves it to a new file name. The problem occurs when the new filename
> already exists.
>
> I am using move_uploaded_file().
>
> The fist time an image file is uploaded and moved to a new file name
> there is no problem, however if I decide to upload a different image
> file, when the script tries to move this to the same filename (which
> is what I want as I want the uploaded file to have a specific name) it
> doesn't work and a couple of warning messages are shown one saying
> 'failed to open stream: No such file or directory in...' and the other
> saying 'Unable to move '...\tmp\php42.tmp' to 'htdocs/.../images/
> newimagename.jpg' ...'
>
> I have looked at www.w3schools.com and it says 'Note: If the
> destination file already exists, it will be overwritten.' however I
> think the problem is that this is not happening?
>
> Any help very much appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> AM

When you get more than one error message, always look at the first one as
this usually the reason for the second one occurring. In this case you have
"No such file or directory in..." meaning you have incorrectly specified the
file you are moving.

Shelly

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