referencing $_FILES inside a custom file upload function - help please!

I'm trying to reference the $_FILES inside a function I've created like the following... (shoterned)

function item_picture_upload($file, $itemid, $alt)
{
    if($file)
    {
        $filename = $_FILES['$file']['name'];
	echo $filename;
    }
}

PHP:

And I call it like this...

$retval = item_picture_upload($_FILE['file1'], 50, "the picture alt");

PHP:

I'm trying to reference it but not working I'm trying to upload the file, rename and store permantly. The syntax must be wrong I think. Any input please?

 

$_FILES is not the same as $_FILE. That little squiggly thing at the end is a letter "S", not a worm that happened to crawn on your monitor.

 

Ok, copied the source wrong, it's correct in my code - anyone any help please?

 

Here you are passing $_FILES['file1'] which is an array:

$retval = item_picture_upload($_FILE['file1'], 50, "the picture alt");

Code (markup):

And then here you are treating it like a string:

$filename = $_FILES['$file']['name'];

Code (markup):

Except that '$file' (name of string inside single quotes) doesn't do anything useful at all.

How about this:

$retval = item_picture_upload($_FILES['file1'], 50, "the picture alt");

Code (markup):

function item_picture_upload($file, $itemid, $alt)
{
    if(is_array($file) && count($file))
    {
        $filename = $file['name'];
        echo $filename;
    }
}

Code (markup):

 

You need to set this ($_FILES['$file']['name'] outside of the function and pass it in as another variable also.

 

Thank you One of those days! Works fine now.

Thanks again!