PHP Upload system not moving file from temp to specified directory - php

Question

So I've tried to create a basic PHP/MySQL picture upload system using the W3Schools example as a reference, however I cannot for the life of me work out why the uploaded file is not being copied to the destination specified.
Here is my PHP code:
$allowedExts = array("gif", "jpeg", "jpg", "png");
$temp = explode(".", $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
$extension = end($temp);
$uploads_dir = 'img/houses';
if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/x-png")
|| ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/png"))
&& in_array($extension, $allowedExts)) {
if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0) {
echo "Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br>";
} else {
move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
$uploads_dir . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
echo "Stored in: " . $uploads_dir . $_FILES["file"]["name"];
}
} else {
echo "Invalid file";
}
And here is the HTML upload form:
<form action="uploadHousePic.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Image: <input type="file" name="file" id="file"/>
<br><br>
Price: £ <input type="text" name="Price">
<br><br>
Type of house: <input type="text" name="Type">
<br><br>
Location: <input type="text" name="Location">
<br><br>
Description: <textarea rows="6" cols="60" input type="text" name="Description"></textarea>
<br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
Finally, I have the destination code on another php page where the picture + info will be inserted:
<?php
// this is used to connect to the database on the mysql server called houselist
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();// if there is a problem with the connection and it can't connect it will display this error to the user.
}
$result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM tbl_house_info");//this setups the query to be used in order to gather the data to be displayed on the page. it will select all the data from the tbl_house_page.
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {//this then will run a loop and fetch all the results from the database in an array and display them in order row by row.
echo '<div class="housepost">';//this is used to add the format of the web page that was used.
echo '<img src="img/houses/', $row['Image'],'" width="270px" height="190px" alt="" />';// this line adds the image to the div and adds in the destination of the image, the image will have been placed here from the upload and now adding in the file name from the database it will display the full image on the page.
echo '<h2>' , '£' ,$row['Price'] , '</h2>' , '<p>'. $row['Type'] , '</p>' , '<p>' . $row['Location'] , '</p>' , '<p>' , $row['Description'] , '</p>';// this will then add some more formatting as well as displaying the other columns of data which are the price, type, location and destination on the web page to the user.
echo "</div>";
}
?>
Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is for a College project that I am working on, so I wanted to try and figure it out for myself; but when both you and your teacher cannot find the problem something is wrong...
Thanks :)

Answer 1

Check if max file size and max post size in php.ini are big enough! :)
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = xxxM
post_max_size = xxxM
For 70% it's bad config.
EDIT: Restart server (Xampp, apache, wampp or any other) :)

Answer 2

Change your path from $uploads_dir = 'img/houses'; to $uploads_dir = 'img/houses/';
Also check whether you have the write privileges for this directory.
You can also use is_writable() function to check whether writable.
Refer http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.is-writable.php