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I'm trying to put together a HTML POST-ed form that has two fields--a file upload, and a text field. Since the form has a type multipart/form-data for the file upload, I can't get at the text field through the normal PHP $_POST variable. So how can I get at the text field in the form with PHP?
As per requested, here's some code, basically taken directly from Andrew:
<html> <body> <form action="test2.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> Name: <input type="text" name="imageName" /> Image: <input type="file" name="image" /> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> <?php echo $_POST['imageName']; echo "<pre>"; echo var_dump($_FILES['image']); echo "</pre>"; ?> That's the entire test file. If I remove the enctype, I can get the POST-ed data, but not the file of course. With the enctype as multipart/form-data, I can get the file, but nothing from the POST-ed data.
Here's the output with the enctype:
array(5) { ["name"]=> string(34) "testing.png" ["type"]=> string(0) "" ["tmp_name"]=> string(0) "" ["error"]=> int(1) ["size"]=> int(0) } Without:
testing NULL Same exact input both times.
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The Multipart parser is used for working with the request body in the multipart format. This parser creates a hash table where the names of the request body parameters are the keys and the values of the corresponding parameters are the hash table values.
Multipart form data: The ENCTYPE attribute of <form> tag specifies the method of encoding for the form data. It is one of the two ways of encoding the HTML form. It is specifically used when file uploading is required in HTML form. It sends the form data to server in multiple parts because of large size of file.
File uploads come through $_FILES. Everything else comes through $_POST (assuming of course your HTML form had its method attribute set to "post").
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Check your post limit. I was going crazy trying to figure out what was causing this. A quick check to Apache error log showed that the post content length exceeded the limit. After raising the limit the post data is available.
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