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dodgyone · Mar 3, 2003

I'm creating an image upload facility but I'm having troubles getting the file variables on the upload page.

I know that enctype="multipart/form-data" has to be entered into the form to accept the data uploaded but every document I have read suggests to put it in the <form> tag. This doesn't work when I try it but it does work when I place it in the <input name="userfile" type="file"> tag (i.e. <input name="userfile" type="file" enctype="multipart/form-data">).

I cannot use $userfile_name, $userfile_size etc etc to get the details on the upload process page. They won't pass through. Do I have to det up the apache web server differently. I don't have contact to the server side so I have to tell the guys what I want changed.

Thanks...

danielhozac · Mar 3, 2003

Have you tried using the [tt]$_FILES['userfile'][/tt] array instead? //Daniel

dodgyone · Mar 3, 2003

Yes I have used $_FILES['userfile']['name'] but still no joy.

I'm stuck ;o(

Thanks for trying to help...

dodgyone · Mar 4, 2003

Still no joy with file uploads. The php.ini file is all set up for file uploads. Is there anything else I can try?

[1]
I've entered the following into the form:
<input name="userfile" type="file" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">

I tried entering ENCTYPE into the <form> tag but it fails.

[2]
I've tried the following php upload codes in the resulting page but nothing is displayed:
echo $_FILES['userfile']['name'];
echo $HTTP_POST_FILES['userfile']['name'];
echo $userfile_name;

Other than that I have no idea. Does anyone have any suggestions...

dodgyone · Mar 10, 2003

It's working but something I didn't realise occurred.

I posted the form field to a new page and it didn't work but if I posted using php_self to post back to the same page then it would take the value.

Is this a usual occurrance in php?

pUsHter · Apr 14, 2003

I would assume so, I am not using php_self, considering I have multi-form submission processes included in the same php file, and the $filename_name extension does not work. I made up a code to bypass that. I don't really need the _type and _size extensions, so it doesn't bother me using this. So if you don't need to use those extensions either, feel free to use up this code:

$filenamearray = explode("\\", $filename);
$filenamearraysize = count($filenamearray);
$counter=1;
while($counter<$filenamearraysize) {
array_shift($filenamearray);
$counter = $counter+1;
}
echo $filenamearray[0];

Hope someone finds this useful

sleipnir214 · Apr 14, 2003

File uploads require two things in the form tag, one of which you seem to be missing in your example:

<form action="yourscript.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

Input tags do not support the "enctype" attribute.

The following works for me:

[test_upload.html]:

Code:

<html><body>
<form method=&quot;POST&quot; action=&quot;test_upload.php&quot; enctype=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot;>
<input type=file name=upfile>
<input type=submit>
</form></body></html>

[test_upload.php]

Code:

<?php
print '<pre>';
print_r ($_FILES);
print '</pre>';
?>

When I select the file "DSCN0238.JPG" in the HTML page and hit submit, I get the following return:

Code:

Array
(
    [upfile] => Array
        (
            [name] => DSCN0238.JPG
            [type] => image/pjpeg
            [tmp_name] => /tmp/phpxEjCdW
            [error] => 0
            [size] => 354499
        )

)

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