Need help with formtools on Windows server - deadline looms large

[johnbleck2]

Joe,
Thanks so much for the response.

IUSR_myservername did NOT initially have the write permissions which has been rectified. Tried to update Upload module:
Same permission error.

Then I tried to change the the files.php file from
// first, check server's temporary file upload folder
$upload_tmp_dir = ini_get("upload_tmp_dir");
to
// first, check server's temporary file upload folder
$upload_tmp_dir = ini_get("upload_tmp_dir") ?: sys_get_temp_dir();
Same permission error.

Now, I'm also a php newbie so as I poked around some more I looked in the phpMyAdmin where the export/import options were blank. So, I added the subfolder, saved config. but I believe that's for sql imports and uploads.
Same permission error.

Do I have to start and stop php somehow? If so how would I? Would that even help?
php newbies... I know. I apologize in advance.

Where can I find the default upload folder for php? I'm assuming if blank (from reading the files.php file that if blank it should populate with the default php upload folder, but when I blank it out it stays blank)
I can't find a php.ini file anywhere so I'm not sure where this gets set. Looks like using Windows we have to use this "default" location and move files, but I can't find the default upload location defined anywhere.

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I didn't realize right away my first attempt to change the files.php I used single quotes for 'upload_tmp_dir' when I changed that line to
$upload_tmp_dir = ini_get('upload_tmp_dir') ?: sys_get_temp_dir();

I changed it to
$upload_tmp_dir = ini_get("upload_tmp_dir") ?: sys_get_temp_dir();

That plus the permissions and it works!
Thank you so much for your reply and overall these tools are fantastic.

Very happy with it so far & thanks again.