simple upload and save jpeg

OK, this is my first time trying to let folks upload a picture and save
it. I use a very basic html file input from

<form action="picact.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input name="picture_name" type="file" id="picture_name">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

In picact.php I try to run a simply copy function

if(!(copy($picture_name, "images/picupload.jpeg"))){
echo "trouble"; }
else {
echo "worked";}

it tells me it worked, but there is no file in the images folder, so I
don't know what is going wrong. does anyone have any advice?

I am using a static file name for now, to avoid any trouble with
variable names.
thanks,

paul

googlegroups@paul13.com wrote:
> OK, this is my first time trying to let folks upload a picture and save
> it. I use a very basic html file input from
>
> <form action="picact.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> <input name="picture_name" type="file" id="picture_name">
> <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
> </form>
>
> In picact.php I try to run a simply copy function
>
> if(!(copy($picture_name, "images/picupload.jpeg"))){
> echo "trouble"; }
> else {
> echo "worked";}
>
> it tells me it worked, but there is no file in the images folder, so I
> don't know what is going wrong. does anyone have any advice?
>
> I am using a static file name for now, to avoid any trouble with
> variable names.
> thanks,
>
> paul
>


You are totally on the wrong track.

Please read:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

On that page you will find a example how it should be done.


Franck Nijhof
BlueSolid Software