Where does PHP save temporary files during uploading?

Question

I am using XAMPP on Windows. By printing $_FILES[\"file\"][\"tmp_name\"], it seems that the temporary file was saved at C:\\xampp\\tmp\\phpABCD.tmp. But I cannot se

Answer 1

Use move_uploaded_file(file, path), specify the file and the path where you want to store the file.

A copy of that file is created and gets stored.

Answer 2

Note that the file is saved binary in $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], so you may open it maybe with file_get_contents if it is an image or something like this...