I have a page that has multiple inputs for single file upload. Kind of like this:
<div id="fileUpload1">
<input id="inputField1" type="file"></input>
</div>
<div id="fileUpload2">
<input id="inputField2" type="file"></input>
</div>
<div id="fileUpload3">
<input id="inputField3" type="file"></input>
</div>
<button type="button" onclick="uploadFiles()">Upload</button>
Inside uploadFiles(), I first create an array of each file in the input fields:
var files = [];
for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
var element = document.getElementById("inputField" + i);
var file = element.files[0];
files.push(file);
}
Then I attempt to call FileReader's onLoad event for each file in the "files" array:
for (var i = 0, f; f= files[i]; i++) {
var fileName = f.name;
console.log("out: " + fileName);
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
console.log("in: " + fileName);
addItem(e.target.result, fileName);
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(f);
}
addItem() is a function that works.
When I run this, only the last item in the "files" array is uploaded.
If inputField1 has a file named file1.jpg, inputField2 has a file named file2.jpg, etc, I would get the following in the console:
out: file1.jpg
out: file2.jpg
out: file3.jpg
in: file3.jpg
in: file3.jpg
in: file3.jpg
I feel like I am missing something truly fundamental with how to use FileReader. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!
<button type="button" onclick="uploadFiles(readF)">Upload</button>
function uploadFiles(){
var files = [];
for (var i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {
var element = document.getElementById("inputField" + i);
var file = element.files[0];
files.push(file);
}
for (var i = 0, f; f= files[i]; i++) {
console.log("out: " + fileName);
readF(f);
}
}
function readF(f){
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function (e) {
var fileName = f.name;
console.log("in: " + fileName);
addItem(e.target.result, fileName);
}
reader.readAsArrayBuffer(f);
}
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