(PHP) Uploading a file to the directory above your upload script?

[TimB.]

I am creating an upload manager for one of my projects and i want to upload the files to a directory in the one above the admin directory so i have been using:

PHP Code:

$target = '../uploads'; 


But this dosn't seem to be working, is there another way?

(either that or could someone suggest how i can make a relative url of a file work form both a WYSIWYG editor in /admin and the pages in the root directory? They obviously both have to be using the same code.

[Yumi]

When you make the call to move_uploaded_file, just use ".." in the path there.

[Martin M.]

or use

PHP Code:

$target = dirname(dirname(__FILE__))."/uploads"; 


To get the full path. Recommended.

[DougSD]

Have you defined a global Document Root? This helps a lot. In a root file of your program, do this:

PHP Code:

define("DOC_ROOT", dirname(__FILE__)."/");

$target = DOC_ROOT."uploads"; 


I use that, and it helps out a lot.