Attachments on NT

[Marcel]

I was one of the many people having trouble with attachments on an NT server. Here is my solution.

First I made a new testpage to check if uploading a file would work at all. I posted this form to a script echoing the uploaded filename, this gave me c:\winnt\temp\phpsometing.tmp. This file could be copied to one of my own directories using move_uploaded_file. This all worked fine so now I knew the bug must be somewhere in VB.

First thing I changed was echoing the uploaded filename in functions.php, in the function acceptupload. This time the filename was C:WINNTTEMPPHPSOMETHING.TMP... no slashes. So I added a line in this function:

  $attachment=ereg_replace("C:WINNTTEMP", "C:\\WINNT\\TEMP\\", $attachment);

to get the filename in the right format.

Next thing that went wrong was the line

  if (file_exists($attachment)) {

For some reason this returned False when the file was still in the temp directory. So I had to copy the file to one of my directories first. My attachments are working now, thanks to the following lines in acceptupload:

  $attachment=ereg_replace("C:WINNTTEMP", "C:\\WINNT\\TEMP\\", $attachment);
  $tmppath=tempnam ("d:\\www\\nldelphi.com\\database", "UPL");
  copy($attachment, $tmppath);
  $attachment=$tmppath;

Remaining question: why is the uploaded filename OK in my testscript and wrong in VB? Is this a VB bug and can this be solved?

[splooge]

php.ini:

upload_tmp_dir = c:\\winnt\\temp\\

On my 2k box the default permissions weren't correct on the temp dir, had to change those then it worked perfectly. /shrug

[Marcel]

I could ask my host to change this setting, but I don't understand why my testpage uploaded the file OK and a VB is not working. I still think the bug is in VB, but my PHP knowledge is not good enough to find the error.