PHP Upload Script

[wowcrofty]

I currently have the following script used on my site to upload files.  When the linked web page executes it, however, I receive the infamous Parse Error - Unexpected '<' in x:/xxxx.  The problem lies in Line 11 where I attempt to define a command that will display a message box to the user upon successful file upload.  The syntax is not correct and I was hoping someone would be able to help me with it.  Here is the contents of the PHP file.

 

<?php
// Where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/file_uploads/";

/*Add the original filename to our target path.
Result is "uploads/filename.extension"*/
$target_path=$target_path.basename($_FILES['file']['name']);

//Move file to upload directory
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo <script type="text/javascript">alert("Upload was successful.  Thank you for your contribution")</script>;
} else{
echo "There was a problem submitting the file.  Plese try again!";
}
?>

 

Thank you in advance for any help.

 

[WatsonN]

change

echo <script type="text/javascript">alert("Upload was successful.  Thank you for your contribution")</script>;

to

echo '<script type="text/javascript">alert("Upload was successful.  Thank you for your contribution")</script>';

[fortnox007]

echo "There was a problem submitting the file.  Plese try again!";

 

and say Please instead of Plese : )

[coupe-r]

This has helped me but I have a question on how to re-direct from here.

 

under my alert(), I have a header(Location).  If I comment out the header(), the alert runs fine, otherwise it just runs the redirect.

 

Is there a way that the alert will run and then when you press the OK button in the dialog box, the rest of the code below will run?

 

Thanks as always.