Trouble getting images to upload in php/mysql

Question

I've been working on a custom cms and I'm having trouble creating a form where a user can update the thumbnail associated with a given row. I have another page where they can do the initial upload, and it all works perfectly, but for some reason, even after copy and pasting the code directly to the update page, php returns errors for the following two lines:

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['thumbnail']['tmp_name'], "images/" . $_FILES['thumbnail']['name']);
$thumbnail_location = 'images/'. $_FILES['thumbnail']['name'];

The page leading to this one just contains a normal form where the upload input has a name of "thumbnail". Here is a little more of the related code although it does not seem to be the problem.

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['thumbnail']['tmp_name'], "images/" . $_FILES['thumbnail']['name']);
$thumbnail_location = 'images/'. $_FILES['thumbnail']['name'];
$id = $_GET['id'];



    $workset = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM work WHERE id='.$id.' LIMIT 1', $connection);
    while ($work = mysql_fetch_array($workset)) {

        mysql_query('UPDATE work SET thumbnail="'.$thumbnail_location.'" WHERE id='.$id.'');
    }

mgraph · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-02 23:08:25Z

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you must add enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form :

<form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">

answered Jul 2, 2012 at 23:08

mgraph

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tom c Over a year ago

Wow. I spent hours on this. Thank you so much.

eggyal Over a year ago

@RobForrest: The 15 minute restriction has not yet elapsed.

tom c Over a year ago

It's still good that he told me. I'm new so I wouldn't have done it otherwise. :)

Musa · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-07 12:43:32Z

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@mgrahy that's true well done. just here am trying to do the complete html form @tom c

<form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">  
<input type ="thumbnail[]" multiple>
<input type ="submit" value="uplod">
</form>

answered Feb 7, 2013 at 12:43

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Humphrey Over a year ago

thats gud 2 althogh mgraph provided close to similar

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