Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/13/06 21:54

Dave Mennenoh wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here?
>
> These three lines are my upload script. As it's shown here it works - except
> that I'm not using the $folder variable, which I need. I just have the
> folder hardcoded within the line that assigns $moveTo.
>
> $folder = $_POST['folder'];
> $moveTo = "portfolio/bay_website/".$_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
> move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], $moveTo);
>
> If I now break out "portfolio/bay_website/" to a variable, and use that it
> stops working:
>
> $folder = $_POST['folder'];
> $d = "portfolio/bay_website/";
> $moveTo = $d.$_FILES['Filedata']['name'];
> move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'], $moveTo);
>
> How is this different from the first one? I cannot figure this out, and it's
> why using my $folder variable is not working... Ultimately I simply want
> this:
>
> $folder = $_POST['folder'];
> move_uploaded_file($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'],
> $folder.$_FILES['Filedata']['name']);
>
>

Dave,

Well, to start with, I don't see where you're using $folder anywhere
once you've gotten it from $_POST['folder']. Maybe you want instead

$moveTo = $folder.$_FILES['Filedata']['name'];

If this doesn't work, what do you get? And what's in $folder?

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