Question

If you want to temporarily store uploaded files in the /tmp/phpuploads/ directory, which one of the following statement will you use?

(a) upload_tmp_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”

(b) upload_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”

(c) upload_temp_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”

(d) upload_temp_director “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”

I have been asked this question in an internship interview.

This intriguing question comes from Uploading Files with PHP topic in chapter File and Session Handling in PHP of PHP

Answer 1

The correct answer is (a) upload_tmp_dir “/tmp/phpuploads/ directory”

To explain: Anyone can temporarily store uploaded files on the given directory. One cannot change upload_tmp_dir at the runtime. By the time a script runs, the upload process has already occurred.