Unable to bring uploaded images into uploads file using php - php

Question

After creating a form and typing the php code, i have a form where i am able to input a file, specifically an image, and without reciving any error messages, as well as getting the success message in my url, the image uploaded still can not be found in its destination folder.
Here is the HTML
<form action="" class="navbar-form navbar-right" role="search">
<div class="form-group">
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Find Art Here">
</div>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Search</button>
</form>
and here's the php
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$file = $_FILES['file'];
$fileName = $file['name'];
$fileTmpName = $file['tmp_name'];
$fileSize = $file['size'];
$fileError = $file['error'];
$fileType = $file['type'];
$fileExt = explode('.', $fileName);
$fileActualExt = strtolower(end($fileExt));
$allow = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'pdf');
if (in_array($fileActualExt, $allow)) {
if($fileError === 0){
if($fileSize < 5000000) {
$fileNameNew = uniqid('', true).".".$fileActualExt;
$fileDestination = 'uplaods/'.$fileNameNew;
move_uploaded_file($fileTmpName, $fileDestination);
header("Location: index.php?uploadsucess");
} else{
echo "Your file is too big";
}
} else {
echo "There was an error uplaoding your file!";
}
} else{
echo "You cannot upload files of this type!";
}
}
Code is based and modified from this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaRq73y5MJk
Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

in your form add this
enctype="multipart/form-data"
example
<form method="post" class="login-form" enctype="multipart/form-data"
action="my.php">

Answer 2

1) Add enctype="multipart/form-data" in your form tag.
2) fileDestination = 'uplaods/'.$fileNameNew;spelling mistake on file name. (If it is intentional, then my bad).
3) <input type='file'> type should be file.

Answer 3

how did you communicate with $_FILES? You need to use
type="file" in your input

Answer 4

The first thing you have to do is adding enctype="multipart/form-data" and method="post" to your form-tag:
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
If it then still doesn't work, check the upload_max_filesize and the post_max_size settings in your php.ini. If your file is too big, only move_uploaded_file() will return false, so check that function as well.

Answer 5

Your <form> misses an attribute to send files:
enctype="multipart/form-data"
And to be sure the upload is done, put the move_uploaded_file() in a condition because the function returns a boolean :
if (move_uploaded_file($fileTmpName, $fileDestination)) {
header("Location: index.php?uploadsucess");
} else {
header("Location: index.php?uploadfail");
}
Also, a better way to get your file extension is using pathinfo() :
pathinfo($fileName, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
you don't have any <input type="file"> in your form
you maybe mispelled your upload directory : uplaods
php.net - move_uploaded_file()
php.net - pathinfo()