Prova a sostituire la riga:

Codice PHP:
$remote_file "image_files/".$_FILES["image_upload_box"]["name"]; 
con:

Codice PHP:
$remote_file "image_files/" $_FILES["image_upload_box"]["name"];
$ext substr($remote_filestrrpos($remote_file'.'));
$remote_filename substr($remote_file0, -strlen($ext));
$i 1;
while (
file_exists($remote_file)) {
    
$remote_file $remote_filename $i $ext;
    
$i++;