Help please with $_FILES

[Shelly]

I have searched and have not gotten an understanding of $_FILES. I am
trying to do an upload to a directory "tmpdir" on the server. I have a
field defined as:

File name: <input name="filename" type="file" id="filename">

In my PHP code I have (with diagnostics):

echo "Will try to upload a file <br>";
echo "Tmp_Name: ".$_FILES['filename']['tmp_name']."<br>";
echo "Name: ".$_FILES['filename']['name']."<br>";
echo "Size: ".$_FILES['filename']['size']."<br>";
echo "Type: ".$_FILES['filename']['type']."<br>";
if ($_FILES['filename']['type'] == "mid/wav"){
echo "File of proper type <br>";
copy ($_FILES['filename']['tmp_name'],
"tmpdir/".$_FILES['filename']['name'])
or die ("Could not copy");
echo "";
echo "Name: ".$_FILES['filename']['name']."<br>";
echo "Size: ".$_FILES['filename']['size']."<br>";
echo "Type: ".$_FILES['filename']['type']."<br>";
echo "Copy Done....";
}

There are two problems.
1 - It doesn't enter to do the copy even though the file is a .mid file.
2 - The $_FILES['filename'] is empty.

I run the "browse" button and select that a file. Why is the $_FILES
superglobal empty?

If I comment out the "if" line and closing "}", the copy fails with a "Could
not copy", as expected since the filenames are empty.

Can someone please help me? (I have only been at this for a short while).

Shelly

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Help please with $_FILES

I noticed that Message-ID: <nL-dnawWlvlgxlXfRV n-tQ@comcast.com> from
Shelly contained the following:
[color=blue]
> File name: <input name="filename" type="file" id="filename">[/color]

Make sure you have this in a form including the following:
<form ENCTYPE="multip art/form-data" method="POST" action="">



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[Shelly]

Re: Help please with $_FILES


"Geoff Berrow" <blthecat@ckdog .co.uk> wrote in message
news:d0ugc1pman 8sb1d2k13nq6jnn taak7jpv0@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
>I noticed that Message-ID: <nL-dnawWlvlgxlXfRV n-tQ@comcast.com> from
> Shelly contained the following:
>[color=green]
>> File name: <input name="filename" type="file" id="filename">[/color]
>
> Make sure you have this in a form including the following:
> <form ENCTYPE="multip art/form-data" method="POST" action="">[/color]

It is enclosed in:

<form enctype="multip art/form-data" action="thisfor m.php" method="POST">

Shelly

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: Help please with $_FILES

Shelly <sheldonlg.news @asap-consult.com> wrote:
[file uploading code][color=blue]
> There are two problems.
> 1 - It doesn't enter to do the copy even though the file is a .mid file.
> 2 - The $_FILES['filename'] is empty.
>
> I run the "browse" button and select that a file. Why is the $_FILES
> superglobal empty?
>
> Can someone please help me? (I have only been at this for a short while).[/color]

A clear case of RTFM. Seeing your code I don't know where you got it
from, but it's definetly not from

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

which you should try first.

While your posted code is not complete I can only guess you didn't
supply the correct encoding type to the form necessary for uploading:
enctype="multip art/form-data"

[Shelly]

Re: Help please with $_FILES


"Daniel Tryba" <partmapsswen@i nvalid.tryba.nl > wrote in message
news:42c87db7$0 $74303$c5fe704e @news6.xs4all.n l...[color=blue]
> Shelly <sheldonlg.news @asap-consult.com> wrote:
> [file uploading code][color=green]
>> There are two problems.
>> 1 - It doesn't enter to do the copy even though the file is a .mid file.
>> 2 - The $_FILES['filename'] is empty.
>>
>> I run the "browse" button and select that a file. Why is the $_FILES
>> superglobal empty?
>>
>> Can someone please help me? (I have only been at this for a short
>> while).[/color]
>
> A clear case of RTFM. Seeing your code I don't know where you got it
> from, but it's definetly not from
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
> which you should try first.[/color]

I tried to find the FM using the search in www.php.net, but couldn't find
what you just pointed to. Thanks. I'll read that one.
[color=blue]
>
> While your posted code is not complete I can only guess you didn't
> supply the correct encoding type to the form necessary for uploading:
> enctype="multip art/form-data"[/color]

.....however, I **DID** supply the proper encoding.

Shelly

[Shelly]

Re: Help please with $_FILES


"Daniel Tryba" <partmapsswen@i nvalid.tryba.nl > wrote in message
news:42c87db7$0 $74303$c5fe704e @news6.xs4all.n l...[color=blue]
> Shelly <sheldonlg.news @asap-consult.com> wrote:
> [file uploading code][color=green]
>> There are two problems.
>> 1 - It doesn't enter to do the copy even though the file is a .mid file.
>> 2 - The $_FILES['filename'] is empty.
>>
>> I run the "browse" button and select that a file. Why is the $_FILES
>> superglobal empty?
>>
>> Can someone please help me? (I have only been at this for a short
>> while).[/color]
>
> A clear case of RTFM. Seeing your code I don't know where you got it
> from, but it's definetly not from
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php
> which you should try first.
>
> While your posted code is not complete I can only guess you didn't
> supply the correct encoding type to the form necessary for uploading:
> enctype="multip art/form-data"\[/color]

Here is the complete section and it still doesn't work:

<p>
<label></label>
<br>
<label> </label>
</p>
<form enctype="multip art/form-data" action="thisfor m.php" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_ SIZE" value="30000">
<p>File name: <input name="filename" type="file" id="filename">
</p>
<p>Descriptio n: <input name="descripti on" type="text"
id="description ">
<label> </label>
</p>
<p>
<label> </label>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Add Entry">
</p>
</form>

[Shelly]

Re: Help please with $_FILES

I have absolutely NO idea what happened, but it is working now. I really
didn't change anything. I went to the simple file where I got the method
and tried that one. It worked. So I compared with the one I wanted and
nothing was different. I moved a few echos, I and tried again and it
worked.

Thanks guys, the mystery continues but at least it is working now.

Oh, how do I specify multiple types. Right now I have "audio/mid", but I
would like to also allow .wav files.


Shelly