Bare-bones file upload in php

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HTML Form

/index.html :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <title>Document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form method="post" action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <label for="file-label">File : </label>
      <input type="file" name="myfile" id="myfile" />
      <input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

File Upload Handler

/upload.php :

<?php
$tempFile = $_FILES['myfile']['tmp_name'];
$fileName = $_FILES['myfile']['name'];

$fileDestination = __DIR__."/uploads/".$fileName;

copy($tempFile, $fileDestination);

unlink($tempFile);