file_put_contents could not store image on server - php

$path = 'http://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/372096_100002534902767_1927052265_n.jpg';
$info = file_put_contents('new/angel.jpg', file_get_contents(urldecode($path)));
echo $info;
It works fine on localhost but it did not work on my website.
Any idea what the problem might be?

Check your logs for error messages
Does the folder ("new") exist?
Are permissions set to allow writing by scripts?
Are you sure the error is in file_put_contents? file_get_contents could fail if the host has disallowed url_fopen.
unless $path is actually hardcoded, you will probably introduce an arbitrary file disclosure security issue. Make sure you validate your input.

you need to give a permission (write ) to upload folder
you can do that by the FTP program by using this codes in numeric value :777

Make sure that there are write permissions to the file in which you are writing
I think the relative path is the problem. It can possible that your local has the path to that file but the path does not exists on server.
3.Please put a forward slash in line $info=file_put_contents('new/angel.jpg', file_get_contents(urldecode($path))); before your "new" folder and try i think this might be a problem

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I used to have a php file that does a simple move_uploaded_file by using selecting a local file and upload to our UNIX web server.
Now we migrate our code to a Windows2003 Server, then the move_uploaded_file() fails, the error that keeps coming up reads like:
"Cannot move the C:Windows\temp\100D.php" file to desiredDirectory.
here desiredDirectory means it caputures the correct directory for this file movement. The code we used is pretty straightforward:
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $target))
and we did try change it to $HTTP_POST_FILES, but still not working.
So we are really clueless at the moment, wonder if any experts could give us some hints, thanks a lot.
You should check if the target directory exists and if the apache user has all rights on that folder.
For a test you can set the folder access settings for the user 'everyone' to 'full'
The snippet of your code i see here is correct and you don't have to use $HTTP_POST_FILES
Does the webserver have write permissions on the target directory? Given that you say the paths are correct, that's the other #1 major reason why file moves fail.

How do I make move_uploaded_files work in PHP?

What I have right now for file upload is:
move_uploaded_file($filetemp, "files/$filename");
With filetemp referring to $_FILES['fileupload']['tmp_name'], filename referring to $_FILES['fileupload']['name'], and files referring to a folder of that name inside the folder where the PHP file is.
However, this does not move the file to the files folder. How do I make it so that the function moves the file there?
Thanks!
Nerd With a Vengeance
There could be any number of reasons why this might not be working.
The first thing to check is permissions - make sure the webserver has write permissions to the directory you're trying to write to.
Also, turn your error reporting up - see what warnings are being generated on failure (assuming that you're return value is indeed false).

PHP rename file on same host

$url = 'http://site.com/images/name.jpg';
Its a full path for the file, which is already exists on ftp.
How can I change file's name?
As others already point out, the PHP function you're looking for is rename, but you can't rename a file through a http:// URL (At least not in PHP - As #Artefacto says, WebDAV can do this.).
You will need to specify a proper filesystem path.
if your script on the server root (http://site.com/script.php) that script will do:
rename('images/oldname.jpg', 'images/newname.jpg');
since that's the relative path of the image from the script point of view.
Check out the rename() function. Seems to be what you're looking for here.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.rename.php

file uploaded via php: no such file or directory

i'm working on a website wherein the users can upload images (uses php 4.3.11). the files are uploaded with no problem as i can see them in the upload directory and i don't get any error message, but when i try to access the uploaded files via ftp, i get an error: no such file or directory. sometimes, i am able to access the file sometimes i get this error. what could be the problem here?
[update]
thanks for the help guys. i'm not familiar with the ftp daemon stuff. but i do access my files via ftp using FireFTP. the files are there but when try to download them or change the file properties, i get the said error. i also tried uploading a file in the folder through ftp and i was able to download it with no problem.
here is some of the code i'm working on, its kind of roundabout but i'll see on how to improve it.
my working directory is something like this www.domain.com/register/
and the upload directory is here www.domain.com/register/uploads/
users are required to register and upon sign-up, a folder is created for them in the uploads directory. i couldn't find a way to create a folder without having to be in the uploads folder itself so i redirect to a create-user-folder.php file in the uploads dir.
the file just contained this code:
$user_foldername = rawurldecode($_GET['name']);
mkdir($user_foldername);
header("Location: ../form.php"); // redirect back to the page
i checked and the created folder's permission is set to 775.
and here's part of the code i use in uploading ( /register/function/function.php ):
$path = "../uploads/$user_foldername/";
for($j = 0; $j < $num_of_uploads; $j++){
if(is_uploaded_file($_FILES[$file]['tmp_name'][$j])){
$filename = $_FILES[$file]['name'][$j];
copy($_FILES[$file]['tmp_name'][$j],$path.$filename);
}
}
i checked using FireFTP and the files are in the /uploads/user_foldername/ directory and its permission is set to 664. the strange thing is that when i try to download the files, at times there would be no problem at all but there are times when the error will appear.
[another update]
i added chmod() after the copy() function,
$filename = $_FILES[$file]['name'][$j];
copy($_FILES[$file]['tmp_name'][$j],$path.$filename);
chmod($path.$filename, 0755);
but i still get the error.
another thing is that when i access /register/uploads/user_foldername/ through the url, i can see all of the uploaded files and view them, but how is it that i can't access them via ftp?
thanks again!
This is either a permission issue, or a configuration error. Here are things you should try:
What are the permission of the uploaded files? Does the FTP user has access to these files? Have you tried logging in as the user the FTP daemon would use and see if you could read the file that way?
Do you really see the correct directory? Have you verified by putting a file in that directory yourself and downloading it? Have you used the ftp command ls to verify the presence of the folder/folders/files?
You might need to chmod the folder the files are in, or in some cases the files themselves.
try chmoding them to 775
You can chmod files and folders through PHP it's self, with the chmod function. Or, you could use a FTP program such as filezilla.
Also check to make sure the intermediate directories are also permissioned as 755, as all the directories in the path need to be executable to be traversed.
i just figured out the problem. it was all because of the file name having accented characters in it, which explains why i do not always get the error message :|
<sigh> i should have seen this earlier, but anyway i hope this helps in case someone ran into the same problem.
thanks again! i really appreciate it :)

move_uploaded_file not working

I'm uploading files via JS and storing the temp path in the session.
Than i use the following code to move the files.
if(move_uploaded_file($_SESSION['temp_img'][$key]['path'], $dest.$bigimg)){
$dest and $bigimg are defined earlier in the script with the id from the database.
Any Ideas or alternatives ?
MANCHUCK's answer was close but not quite there. You must call move_uploaded_file within the script where the file was uploaded. You cannot do what you're doing, that is, "storing temp path in the session" because that path is only valid for one request.
From the PHP manual:
The file will be deleted from the
temporary directory at the end of the
request if it has not been moved away
or renamed.
(Emphasis mine)
move_uploaded_file checks that a file has been uploaded to that page. You are actually uploading the file to a different PHP script then storing in a session. Instead of using move_upload_file use rename.
What is the output of $_SESSION['temp_img'][$key]['path'], also do you have permission to write to the web directory your placing the files. You may need to set it to 777 for some hosts to allow the webserver to write there.

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