PHP FTP Uploader Error.

You didn't escape out one of the quotes in line 23.

 echo ("\"verdana\">File

Hmmm... well in my actual file the slash is there, the problem is it can't find the file on the remote computer or something.

PHP Docs: Chapter 19. Handling file uploads

try something like this:

Well, still isn't working. But the error changed.

Gave me this:

Quote: Warning: error opening in /home/bboyera/eracreations-www/admin/add_map.php on line 21

what is that file?

Well its in a file called, add_map.php and the file being uploaded can be anything.

Here is the entire file.

You should move your ftp_connect() and ftp_login() inside the IF statement with the other ftp functions.

try this....

PHP Docs: file_exists()

Okay, when I just tried that it printed the error uploading file part.

I changed the coed a tincy bit, in the if (file_exists($source)) { blah } part I added the not sign (!) in front of file_exists, like so if (!file_exists($source)) { blah }. Because before is the file already existed it would upload it and if it didn't then it wouldn't upload it. Am I correct there?

So it looks like this.

And when I run it it still return the error,
"Warning: error opening in /home/bboyera/eracreations-www/admin/add_map.php" on the line of ftp_put(). Is it possible that theres just something about my connection thats not letting it access the file I want to upload or something?

You can only upload a file that exists. What was the path that it gave without the bang (!)?

Oh, okay, I misinterpreted that.

The file is on my hard drive. C:\blah\blah.jpg Or something.

I need the exact path & filename...
What you should see, is that the path is your PHP upload directory, and the filename matches that of the original file. If it is something else, then there is something wrong with the upload.

Okay, I'm fairly new to all this and I'm not too sure what you're asking for so I'll just give you everything I can think of!

I'm trying to upload files from my hard-drive (or to be more specific I'm making this so other people can upload files from their hard-drives to the server). So the file would be starting in a place such as C:\maps\map1.scx on the remote server, then going into a directory such as \maps\motw\ on the local server (the one the file will be hosted on.

When I try to run the file, it doesn't work and returns an error in the ftp_put function when it tries to open the file.

use this again:

Then copy & paste the error you get. It should be "Error uploading file: " and then a path & filename.

No, no, no. Hold on. FTP!? To upload? Never needed that myself. Here's a direct quote from a file currently in use for a client of mine to uplaod pictures from his desktop to his site on the server.

if(isset($pic)){
$wdir="/";
$itemimages="/path/to/site.com/images"; //changed for this forum
if(move_uploaded_file($userfile,$itemimages.$wdir.$userfile_name)) {
echo"Picture was added to your product ";
}else{
echo"Failed to upload picture. Please contact your website administrator.";
}
}//end of upload

$userfile is the var. from the form:
$pic var. just tells if picture is to be added to product.

Have you tried this? Am I missing something here? Let me know, like I said, I haven't had to use the ftp_ thing.

What I think he wants, is to upload a file to server1, then ftp that file from server1 to server2.

Okay, I guess I lost you guys. And I guess I was doing something really wrong.

I want to upload a file from my computer, to a website.

Like from:

C:\maps\map1.scx -> http://www.eracreations.com/maps/map1.scx

I thought you could do that with ftp_ things. I guess not.

Could you, 'theprofessional', type up some code thats equivalent to the code that I made? Like the same variable names and everything because I'm not to sure what to make of your code, as I said, I'm fairly new to all this.

I'll do my best. Be forwarned though, there are two ways to upload this way to your server according to your servers PHP version and .ini file setup. The 'move_uploaded_file(...' may also be 'copy(...'

if(isset($file)){ //or: if(is_uploaded_file){
if ($file=="none"){
echo "You must specify a file to upload";
}else{
if ($type == "mowt") $destination="/path/to/site.com/imagefolder"; //change this
if ($type == "melee") $destination="/path/to/site.com/otherimagefolder"; //change this
$wdir="/";
if(move_uploaded_file($file,$destination.$wdir.$file_name)) { //type '$file_name' exactly.
echo"File Uploaded Successfully!";
}else{
echo"Failed to upload picture. Contact the webmaster if this error persist.";
}
}
}//end of upload

Also, use this way to start the form, and include a file max size restriction.

And then use this tag format for the file.

Of course, this is simplified. Meaning there's a lot more to do to the entire code, i.e. From validation and file extensions security check. Anyways, hope this helps.

Well, it seems to be working it just says it doesn't have permission to create the file in the directory, even though the directory is chmoded so that anyone can.

In the $destination variables, what should the path look like if I want to upload to /home/username/www/scmaps/motw (or melee) and the .php file (where the code is for the upload is /home/username/www/admin/add_map.php

Is this your server you are dealing with or a host? There have been some recent security vulnerabilities involving the PHP file upload feature and a number of hosts have disabled the feature because of it.

I think I have a relevant link here somewhere...

Ah, voila!

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-05.html

A host. I'll contact them and see if they have disabled the features or if they applyed the patch.

taff, your correct. My host has this turned off for me too but, this is the code to use in those circumstances. And I know it works because I have two clients that use file uploads on the same host.

/home/username/www/scmaps/motw doesn't look right. I'm assuming that scmaps is your domain? Ask your host for the correct file path on the server to your site. And if your trying this with your own server setup with Apache or something, forget it. Test the code online, live on your hosted server. In addition, don't try to upload from one domain to another, stay within the same domain. Plus, if your domain name is a pointer there may be a server error that the admin. will have to fix. Try it again with these things in mind and if it doesn't work again, you'll need to get the host admin to help because it might be on his end.

Post your fix if you become successful. Back when I was first trying to get file uploads to work for me, it took an entire week of research and hair pulling, but I did it on my own. There are a lot of if's and variables to consider when coding for this, it is very frustrating.

the /home/username/www/... is from the FTP managers. Such as WS_FTP95 LE.

It starts out in the home/username/ directory, and from there there is a couple directorys, one of which is for mail, another is for logs etc. And one is www which is where regular files are. The domain name is eracreations.com and I'm trying to upload maps into eracreations.com/scmaps/motw (or melee, depending on whats selected.

/home/username/www/scmaps/motw still doesn't look right according to your domain name. It looks as though the host keeps thier hosted in the username dir. and your the only one with www as your dir. name, which is different than eracreations. Ask your host specificly for the path to your site on his server.
Also, I can't believe you can see the server in your FTP up from your own host dir. I wonder if they know about this. Sounds like a security leak to me. Go to /home and see all the other hosted sites dir.'s. Bet you can steal some files. I had a host like that once. I could FTP to every site on his server and look at everones files. Pretty cool, but dishonost.

I think that 'username' means the person's username, and not literally 'username'. So,assuming his username is 'ecreations', his path would be /home/ecreations/www/scmaps/motw/

Yes, Mark's correct.

I cannot FTP up past the www directory.