Gravity Support Forums Topic: Path to /tmp is hardcoded ?

Gravity Support Forums Topic: Path to /tmp is hardcoded ? https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/path-to-tmp-is-hardcoded Gravity Support Forums Topic: Path to /tmp is hardcoded ? en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:43:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 <![CDATA[Search]]> q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php Carl Hancock on "Path to /tmp is hardcoded ?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/path-to-tmp-is-hardcoded#post-48317 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:28:30 +0000 Carl Hancock 48317@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Gravity Forms does not hardcode any paths. The tmp folder location isn't hardcoded by Gravity Forms and is dependent upon the location of your WordPress uploads folder. For example this line: <blockquote>self::get_upload_path($form_id) . "/tmp/" .</blockquote> It's using the core WordPress function get_upload_path and then appending the tmp folder name as part of the path because Gravity Forms creates a folder called "tmp" within your WordPress upload folder. Gravity Forms uses built in WordPress functions related to getting proper paths such as get_upload_path whenever it interacts with the file system. There is nothing in that code that needs to be corrected. In fact, some of the code they included examples for AREN'T Gravity Forms code it's core WordPress code. wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/config.php is core WordPress wp-includes/functions.php is core WordPress wp-includes/class-snoopy.php is core WordPress Your host can't just move /tmp/ folders around. WordPress wants the /tmp/ folder to be located in the wp-content/uploads folder wherever that may be. You can move your wp-content folder, but you need to know what you are doing so and based on this i'd say your web host has no clue what it is doing. Your host is incorrect and their response should certainly give you pause and rethink who you do business with as far as web hosting goes. jacksonsage on "Path to /tmp is hardcoded ?" https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/path-to-tmp-is-hardcoded#post-47136 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:09:37 +0000 jacksonsage 47136@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ Let me start off by saying, this is way over my head (I am a designer not a programmer, however I am learning more about the programming end), however, my host is saying that I would need to change code and that it seems to be a bug in gravity forms.... Apparently POST wordpress/gravity forms install, my host moved the the /tmp file to my own root directory. In other words, site was working fine and without notice they moved this directory or what ever they did. I then had no issues with gravity forms, my issue was being able to upload images via wordpress. However after they "fixed" the php.ini file it still did not correct the issue and this is what they sent me. Here is what he host sent me, some of the listed items are wordpress: "The wordpress modules you are using have some bad code in them: See how the path to /tmp is hardcoded ? Instead the module should get the value from php for upload_tmp_dir and use that. rg /tmp * wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/forms_model.php: $temp_filepath = self::get_upload_path($form_id) . "/tmp/" . $file_info["temp_filename"]; wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/forms_model.php: $source = self::get_upload_path($form_id) . "/tmp/" . $tempfile_info["temp_filename"]; wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/form_display.php: $target_path = RGFormsModel::get_upload_path($form["id"]) . "/tmp/"; wp-includes/Text/Diff.php: $tmp_locations = array('/tmp', '/var/tmp', 'c:\WUTemp', 'c:\temp', wp-includes/functions.php: * Function's preference is to WP_CONTENT_DIR followed by the return value of <code>sys_get_temp_dir()</code>, before finally defaulting to /tmp/ wp-includes/functions.php: $temp = '/tmp/'; wp-includes/class-snoopy.php: var $temp_dir = "/tmp"; // temporary directory that the webserver wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/spellchecker/config.php: $config['PSpellShell.tmp'] = '/tmp'; So, they basically said I had to fix this code and then deliver it to them! So I am not at all sure what I am suppose to do, but wanted to find out, is this bad code, and if I do fix the code, how do I fix the code, and will it cause issues when a new version is released. Like I said this is a bit over my head! Thanks in advance for your help!