How to debug move_uploaded_file() in PHP

Question

move_uploaded_file() won't work for me anymore, it was working fine and just stopped out of nowhere. Is there a way for me to check why it's not working anymore? Here's what I currently have, but it only returns TRUE or FALSE.

$status = move_uploaded_file($tempFile, $targetFile);
if($status) {
  echo 'its good';
} else {
  echo 'it failed';
}

I know the path is 100% correct and the directory is CHMOD 755. Is there anything I might be doing wrong?

Solution 1

Maybe this will work:

if(!move_uploaded_file($_FILES['attachement']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {

echo 'Your file was not uploaded please try again
here are your debug informations:
'.print_r($_FILES);

      } else {

          echo 'image succesfully uploaded!';

      } 

Solution 2

Check your error reporting level (see error_reporting function). You should get a warning or notice that's a bit more descriptive.

Also, check that the user your PHP script runs as (usually the server's user, which is nobody or www-data on a lot of systems, but YMMV) owns the directory. With 755, only the owner of the directory can write to it.

Comments

[tmighty]

You should format your code nicely so that it's easy to read. Also, this makes it more difficult to make errors.