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Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
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  1. Foreword
  2. Preface
  1. Introduction
  2. Forms and URLs
          ch02.pdf
  3. Databases and SQL
  4. Sessions and Cookies
          ch04.pdf
  5. Includes
  6. Files and Commands
  7. Authentication and Authorization
  8. Shared Hosting
  1. Configuration Directives
  2. Functions
  3. Cryptography
  4. Index

Use move_uploaded_file()

(Chapter 2, Forms and URLs - Pg 22)

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<?php

$old_filename = $_FILES['attachment']['tmp_name'];
$new_filename = '/path/to/attachment.txt';

if (move_uploaded_file($old_filename, $new_filename))
{
    /* $old_filename is an uploaded file, and the move was successful. */
}

?>