file uploads in PHP not working

I'm a little stumped right now. The code I have which processes the result of a file upload looks like it should be working. After calling it, I can see the variables from the $_FILES['imagefile'] array as:

Local file: /var/tmp/phpkJa4ND
Name: a1101.tif
Size: 218514
Type: image/tiff
Error: 0

From here though, I can't do anything with this file. Both copy and move_uploaded_file fail. Curiously, if I look in /var/tmp, there isn't anything there, which is a really likely clue as to why copy and move failed. Have I missed something in configuration? Or is something else weird going on? Where did my uploaded file go?

 

Well, how do they fail? Just a blank screen or any error message given?

 

Well, this is running in a test routine so far - nothing live, but the remaining part of the code is:

$newfile = "./images/delivery_tickets/"+$UpLoadedFile;

if (copy($UpLoadedFile, $newfile))
print ("file has been written to storage area...<BR>\n");
else
print ("Error writing file...<BR>\n");

It doesn't seem to matter if I use copy or move_uploaded_file in this if statement. It also hasn't seemed to matter whether I use a relative or absolute path in the $newfile assignment. Maybe I've missed something, but my understanding of both copy and move_uploaded_file is that they return boolean so not much information would be available. Is there more detail on why they're failing? And why can I never see the file in /var/tmp? I don't believe that copy should remove it, but I could see where move would.

 

Does this work?

PHP:

$current_dir = getcwd();
$newfile = $current_dir."/images/delivery_tickets/"+$UpLoadedFile;

if (copy($UpLoadedFile, $newfile))
print ("file has been written to storage area...<BR>\n");
else
print ("Error writing file...<BR>\n");


 

No, it doesn't appear to be working. The resultant output was:

current_dir = /export/home/accounting
Moving /var/tmp/phpT_aWND -> /export/home/accounting/images/delivery_tickets/a1101.tif
Error writing file...

current_dir is pointing to DocumentRoot on this server. I've also run this before, but I hard coded the absolute path as opposed to setting it in this matter. If this makes any difference, this installation is a development server running on a Sun Ultra 20 with Solaris 9, apache 1.3.34, and php 5.0.5. It is not our production server.

 

Sorry, i have only dealt with virtual servers so i can't help you.