Seeking file upload help.

Question

Hi,
This has been frustrating me severely of late.  I have two pages that visitors of my site shall go to for uploading photos.  The first page is a simple two question form asking them to enter how many photos will they be uploading in a text field as well as a select drop down of recent dates for which their pictures pertain to. Once those questions are answered and a visitor hits submit, the next page contains the total number of browse dialogue boxes for the # of photos that they intend to submit. Keep in mind that each person is meant to upload photos for just one day at a time and their uploads will go to a specific folder for that date.   I've passed the value of $_POST['selct_dates'] to a variable on the second page like $date = $_POST['selct_dates'] and tried appending this value to what has been defined as the top level 'uploads' folder. So the defined pathway is this... define('SOURCE_DIR', 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\images\\'.$date.'\\');
Then to upload the files I should be able to do this...
$file = ($_FILES['image']['name']);
if (array_key_exists('upload', $_FILES) {
define('SOURCE_DIR', 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\images\\'.$date.'\\');
          foreach ($file as $number => $file) { 
$success = move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'][$number],SOURCE_DIR.$file); } }
So upon upload, the file(s) would go to SOURCE_DIR.$date while the $file variable may be appended to this pathway,.right?
there's actually one more foreach loop included in my actual code due to my select form element having been built as a looped array such as
/*   echo '<option value="' . $option . '"';
if (in_array($option, $date)) {
  echo " selected";
echo ">" . ucfirst($option) . "</option>"; */ but that's a bit more complicated....
So anyway my trouble has been that the SOURCE_DIR is set as it should be when the visitor first goes to the second page.  But after hitting 'upload' photos on the submit button as the final step, the SOURCE_DIR is no longer the pathway when echoing $var = $SOURCE_DIR.$date.  But rather it echos SOURCE_DIR\some_date.  For example when I first navigate initially to the file selection page 2 from the questionaire page 1, I can echo that SOURCE_DIR.$date equals the pathway C:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\uploads\06_01\ . However after a visitor hits the submit button the page refreshes and the echo is SOURCE_DIR\06_01\
Essentially the SOURCE_DIR isn't retaining it's value as a pathway but rather takes on the literal string. Hence the photos are not making it to their desired directory. How can I make the SOURCE_DIR constant remain set all the way through the visitor hitting submit?   Thank you.

Answer 1

You might find it more helpful to post in a forum which is at least marginally relevant to the question. I don't see any XML content at all in that question.