Cant get photo to upload.

You can try giving it the Absolute path or relative path.

As it is now I would try them both.

You did not mention if this was running on localhost or a live server?
Also what OS are you running?

Ive just tried;

PHP Code:

$config['upload_path'] = 'mem/'.$lcuser.$drink;
$drinkphoto = 'mem/'.$lcuser.$drink/$img['file_name']; 


And

PHP Code:

$config['upload_path'] = 'mem/'.$drink;
$drinkphoto = 'mem/'.$drink/$img['file_name']; 


But still no upload. That tells me it probably is wrong in the upload coding rather than the path.