upload file success or failure

I found another post on here about how to FTP upload some files. it's working great, but I want to have a bit more information output. Here's snippet of what I have and what I'd like to do

foreach ($file in $uploadfiles)

{

# create the full path to the file on remote server (odd but okay!)
$ftp_command = $ftp + $file

# for debugging
#$ftp_command

# create a new URI object for the full path of the file
$uri = New-Object System.URI($ftp_command)

#for debugging
#$uri

# finally do our upload to the remote server - URI object, full path to local file
$result = $ftpclient.UploadFile($uri,$file.Fullname)

if ($result) {
 $file.Fullname + " uploaded successfully"
} else {
 $file.Fullname + " not uploaded successfully"
}

}

Basically the if/else loop at the end of the foreach. I want to test for the return from the UploadFile. I'm new to PowerShell but not to programming and just having this little issue.

Thanks in advance