Picture uploads sometimes fail!

[Hanabi]

Hi all,
I try to upload files to my webspace. It only works with some of them. The following code returns the temporary name of the file but when it fails It displays 'none'.

 echo( "<br>" . $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'] );
//save to pics directory
@copy( $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], "pics/" . $_FILES['image']['name'] ); 

Can anyone tell me why this happens? and how could I solve this problem

[whofarted]

I would say remove the @ in front of copy & see if you get an error.

Also, Is it not working with certain extentions or is it seamingly random?

[armandoxxx]

check the POST size .. and max upload size in PHP ini !

[pootergeist]

also try the new

$_FILES['image']['error']

this will return an numeric upon upload error which *should* help indicate exactly what went wrong.

I wrote this multiple ternery for a dual image upload which you could easily adapt

if($_FILES['image']['error'] == 0)
    {
    // successful upload of something - do more tests - add rest of upload code
    }
else
    {
    $err_code = $_FILES['upload_image']['error'];
    $output_string .= ($err_code < 5) ?  ($err_code < 4) ? ($err_code < 3) ? ($err_code < 2) ? 
    'Main Image File was above ' .ini_get('upload_max_filesize'). ' bytes in size.<br />' : 
    'Main Image File was above ' .$max_upload_size. ' bytes in size.<br />' : 
    'Main Image File was only partially uploaded, please try again.<br />' :  
    'No Main Image File was Uploaded, please try again.<br />' : 
    'Unknown Error Encountered, please try uploading again.<br />' ;
    }
echo $output_string; 

the $max_upload_size variable is the same as the MAX_SIZE form field entry that limits the post on the client side.