[Gllug] PHP Again

Tom Gilbert tom at linuxbrit.co.uk
Tue Jul 24 14:40:02 UTC 2001


* Jackson, Harry (HJackson at colt-telecom.com) wrote:
> Hi all 
> 	I am, again, struggling with php. I am trying to provide a facility
> where people can upload files onto my machine from a browser but I am unable
> to get it to work. I have had a look through the manual and so far have had
> little joy. 
> 
> track_vars is on
> my tmp download directory is set up.
> In the book it says that I can use $userfile in my code and this will be OK
> but in the manual it says I should use  $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name']
> for versions after  3.x. I am unable to get it to work using either.
> I am getting the following error.
> 
> Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' or `T_VARIABLE' or
> `T_NUM_STRING' in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\upload.php on
> line 10

That's just a syntax error. Probably related to quoting or something,
but we'd need to actually see the source (especially line 10) to tell.

Tom.
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