Can someone tell me what's not working in this code snippet?

[styleforum]

I'm having some trouble working from a hardcoded version of this to one that will take a userid and work for everyone. It's the upload script after a flash batch uploader. What I have right now is that the first version works fine, but something is wrong with my syntax (I think, I'm really not a programmer, as you can probably tell) that's keeping the second one from writing the files to the directory they go in. The function check_user_dir looks for a directory corresponding to $uploaduser, and makes one if it's not there. That is working in both versions. It makes a directory called ./uploads/20, and chmods it 777, which is what I need for the next part. Then it doesn't upload the files into that directory. I don't know how to check where it's breaking. I'm guessing it's somewhere in the declaration of $uploaddir, because I don't know how to make a path with all this stuff in it and I can't find a similar example.

Later, I'll figure out how to pass the actual userid to $uploaduser, but for right now I just set it to eliminate that as a problem.

I'd really appreciate any help.

This script works:

$uploaddir = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])."/uploads/425/";

$target_encoding = "ISO-8859-1";
echo '<pre>';
if(count($_FILES) > 0)
{
$arrfile = pos($_FILES);
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . iconv("UTF-8", $target_encoding,basename($arrfile['name']));

if (move_uploaded_file($arrfile['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
}
else
echo 'No files sent. Script is OK!'; //Say to Flash that script exists and can receive files

echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';
print_r($_FILES);

echo "</pre>";

This one almost does:

$uploaduser = "20"; // testing - remove later

$uploaddir = dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']). "/uploads/" . $uploaduser . "/";

check_user_dir ( $uploaduser );

echo '<pre>';
if(count($_FILES) > 0)
{
$arrfile = pos($_FILES);
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . iconv("UTF-8", $target_encoding,basename($arrfile['name']));

if (move_uploaded_file($arrfile['tmp_name'], $uploadfile))
echo "File is valid, and was successfully uploaded.\n";
}
else
echo 'No files sent. Script is OK!'; //Say to Flash that script exists and can receive files

echo 'Here is some more debugging info:';
print_r($_FILES);

Thanks.

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Okay, I had it echo $uploaddir and it gives me the right directory, so that declaration is working.

[Lynne]

Do you realize you don't have $target_encoding defined in the second one (like you do in the first)?

[styleforum]

Do you realize you don't have $target_encoding defined in the second one (like you do in the first)?
Sorry, I cut and pasted badly, but it was just above the section I pasted. I later rearranged that so it's more in the order of the working one, but it still doesn't work.

Thanks.

[Lynne]

Have you checked your error_logs to see if there are any errors in there? I know when I was working with upload code on my site, that was often the only place I could go to get feedback.

[styleforum]

Thanks.

As it turned out, an include above all that, in the second one, called to something that unset $_FILES, so it was skipping the whole upload part. I've got it working now.