Upload images to temporary image folder - php

Question

I have a hosted website and i want to upload my images to image directory and link the image to mysql database .
What i did:
Creating form as :
<form method=POST align=center enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type=file name=image>
Php code :
$uploaddir = 'images/';
// echo $uploaddir;
$target = "$uploaddir".basename($_FILES['image']['name']);
echo $target;
$image = $_FILES['image']['name'];
$sql="insert into News2(image_News2)
values($image)";
$res=mysqli_query($con,$sql);
copy($_FILES['tmp_name']['name'],$target,true);
What this code actually do is only inserting the image into the database not copying the image into the images folder.
What i searched for and found :
You shouldn't specify a http:// URL as $uploaddir but a path relative to the path where the php script is running from.
So i what i really wanted to do is :
1- Copying the image into image folder directory on website.
2- Linking the copied image to the database.

Answer 1

you're missing the name ïmage"
not:
copy($_FILES['tmp_name']['name'],$target,true);
but:
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $target);
And maybe you should try the move first, before inserting it in the database, should that action fail (or filesize = 0) etc.
do check on both the file actions and the db actions, should they fail: rollback
extra:
is only 1 column present in your database table?
is it wise to use the uploaded file's name? Duplicates can happen.
I would after checking the file insert the original name into the database. Get the autoincrement id of that record. rename the file to ./1234.jpg
through the database you can then later use the original name. But this numbering might go too var for a simple application

Answer 2

PHP Code :
if (isset($_FILES['image']['name']) && $_FILES['image']['error']
== 0) {
$uploads_dir = '/uploads';
$temp_file = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
$name = basename($_FILES["image"]["name"]);
if(move_uploaded_file($temp_file, "$uploads_dir/$name")){
//Fire Insert Query For Insert image name in your database
}
else
{
echo "Error !! , Your image not uploaded.";
}
}
?>

Answer 3

as per your given data you must close Form tag then give form action ="" attribute to specify url . and if your oprating system is linux then check folder permission in set or not , also check your database table if field name is set unique or not ?
then write below code in given url file