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  • bill
    #1

    $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

    I am a relative newbie to PHP, but not to other languages.
    I wrote a test script to upload files. In the php section above
    the page I get the expected content of the $_FILES array.

    When I have a php section in the body, the $_FILES array
    variables return nothing.
    --------here is the page that is the action of the post-------
    <?php

    echo "The array<br />";
    print_r($_FILES );
    echo "<br />--------------------------------";
    echo "<br />temp-name-php:";
    echo $_FILES["test-img"]["tmp_name"];
    echo "<br />name-php:";
    echo $_FILES["test-img"]["name"];

    ?>

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
    content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
    <title>do test upload</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>test file upload-5</p>

    <p><? echo "this is a test <br />" ?>
    temp name- <? echo $_FILES["test-img"]["tmp_name"] ? <br />
    name -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["name"]; ?<br />
    size -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["size"]; ?<br />
    type -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["type"]; ?<br />
    </p>
    </body>
    </html>
    -------------------------------------------------------

    Any suggestions as to why I get the null returns from the $_FILE
    array ?
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    • NC
      #2
      Re: $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

      bill wrote:
      >
      I wrote a test script to upload files. In the php section above
      the page I get the expected content of the $_FILES array.
      >
      When I have a php section in the body, the $_FILES array
      variables return nothing.
      ....
      Any suggestions as to why I get the null returns from the
      $_FILE array ?
      I would guess, there's something wrong with the form you are
      using to upload files. Most likely, you forgot to specify
      enctype="multip art/form-data" in your form definition...

      Cheers,
      NC

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        • bill
          #3
          Re: $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

          NC wrote:
          bill wrote:
          >I wrote a test script to upload files. In the php section above
          >the page I get the expected content of the $_FILES array.
          >>
          >When I have a php section in the body, the $_FILES array
          >variables return nothing.
          ...
          >Any suggestions as to why I get the null returns from the
          >$_FILE array ?
          >
          I would guess, there's something wrong with the form you are
          using to upload files. Most likely, you forgot to specify
          enctype="multip art/form-data" in your form definition...
          >
          Cheers,
          NC
          >
          Actually the file uploads fine, the $_FILES array gets loaded and
          will display the values in the script that lives above the
          webpage code. The $_FILES array returns null values when I have
          a section of php in the body of the page.
          here is some of my code:---------------------
          <?
          echo "The array<br />";
          print_r($_FILES );
          echo "<br />--------------------------------";
          echo "<br />temp-name-php:";
          echo $_FILES["test-img"]["tmp_name"];
          echo "<br />name-php:";
          echo $_FILES["test-img"]["name"];
          echo "<br />---------------------<br />";
          ?>

          <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
          "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
          <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
          <head>
          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
          content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" />
          <title>do test upload</title>
          </head>
          <body>
          <p>test file upload-5</p>
          <p>
          temp name- <? echo $_FILES["test-img"]["tmp_name"] ? <br />
          name -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["name"]; ?<br />
          size -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["size"]; ?<br />
          type -<?php echo $_FILES["test-img"]["type"]; ?<br />
          </p>
          </body>
          </html>
          --------------------------------
          the $_FILES vars in the body return blank or null values

          bill

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            • Michael Fesser
              #4
              Re: $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

              ..oO(bill)
              >Actually the file uploads fine, the $_FILES array gets loaded and
              >will display the values in the script that lives above the
              >webpage code. The $_FILES array returns null values when I have
              >a section of php in the body of the page.
              >here is some of my code:---------------------
              >[...]
              The code works here (PHP 5.2), except for
              ><?
              which should be <?php.

              Micha

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                • bill
                  #5
                  Re: $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

                  Michael Fesser wrote:
                  .oO(bill)
                  >
                  >Actually the file uploads fine, the $_FILES array gets loaded and
                  >will display the values in the script that lives above the
                  >webpage code. The $_FILES array returns null values when I have
                  >a section of php in the body of the page.
                  >here is some of my code:---------------------
                  >[...]
                  >
                  The code works here (PHP 5.2), except for
                  >
                  ><?
                  >
                  which should be <?php.
                  >
                  Micha
                  Thanks Michael;

                  It turned out that I made a little error midway down the code.
                  While testing to see if the $_FILES array exists, I was setting
                  it to null.

                  Which explains a lot of problems.

                  Thanks.

                  bill

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                    • dyer85
                      #6
                      Re: $_FILE variables returning null when in body of page.

                      I know the problem's solved, but I thought I'd share some info on what
                      became a serious headache for me. I set the MAX_FILE_SIZE hidden input
                      variable in the HTML form, and didn't realize the limit was too small
                      for several of the expected files for upload. For some reason, I wasn't
                      making the connection as to why certain files weren't making it into
                      the $_FILES hash. Lol! Maybe it's just me.

                      If you don't bother setting this, then php.ini will handle the limits.

                      On Nov 25, 7:27 am, bill <nob...@spamcop .netwrote:
                      Michael Fesser wrote:
                      .oO(bill)
                      >
                      Actually the file uploads fine, the $_FILES array gets loaded and
                      will display the values in the script that lives above the
                      webpage code. The $_FILES array returns null values when I have
                      a section of php in the body of the page.
                      here is some of my code:---------------------
                      [...]
                      >
                      The code works here (PHP 5.2), except for
                      >
                      <?
                      >
                      which should be <?php.
                      >
                      MichaThanks Michael;
                      >
                      It turned out that I made a little error midway down the code.
                      While testing to see if the $_FILES array exists, I was setting
                      it to null.
                      >
                      Which explains a lot of problems.
                      >
                      Thanks.
                      >
                      bill

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