On Wed, September 27, 2006 12:12 pm, Andy Hultgren wrote: > So I've been trying to figure out where php uploads files to > temporarily > store them before I move them to their permanent storage directory, > and I'm > having some difficulties: > > -- php_info() says the temporary file upload directory is "/tmp" but I > don't > know if that's relative to my root directory or what and can't figure > out > from the documentation how that path is displayed. /tmp means the /tmp on the root of the hard drive, which your webhost allegedly isn't letting you share... HOWEVER: It is entirely possible (nay, even likely) that they have you in a ch-rooted environment where your "/tmp" is not somebody else's "/tmp" so you'll just see "/tmp" and you don't have to worry about the fact that it's not really really /tmp but somewhere else... > -- I have tried to call pathinfo() and realpath() on my > $_FILES['name']['tmp_name'] file before it is moved, but neither gives > the > full path to the file If $_FILES['name']['tmp_name'] does already have the full path, something is very wrong on your system... Note that as soon as your upload-receiving script ends, the file is deleted. You *have* to use move_uploaded_file() on it in the upload-receiving script to save the file somewhere else, or it's just gonna go away, and you ain't gonna see it never again. > Maybe I should have one of those disclaimers posted on my homepage > like the > ones that you see in taxis sometimes: "This driver never carries more > than > $20 cash." --> "This website never carries anyone's financial > information." :) :-) While there are obviously people "out there" who will just attack randomly, (spammers) I honestly believe that a valuable/useful/warm-fuzzies site (in the eyes of the attackers) is a much less likely target for an actual human attack. I have absolutely zero evidence to support that claim, other than one site that's been wide open to abuse for most of a decade, and only the mindless spam-bots bother it... :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
