Enctype

Encenta.com · 02-05-2006, 03:45 PM

Hey. I'm writing a PHP upload file. However, when I add ..

enctype='multipart/form-data'

.. to the form tag, none of the $_POST variables work. I think this is a common problem but how do I get around this? Thanks

Solved this by using GET instead of POST. But file uploads are still no worky

http://www.ewno.com/submit.phps
http://www.ewno.com/fileupload.phps

help is very much appreciated

sdsinc · 02-05-2006, 05:10 PM

I'm not sure it has anything to do but you should normally use double quotes in your HTML instead of singles:

PHP Code:

  <form method="get" action="submit.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">l 

????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/164824-enctype.html

Are you able to make POST request on that directory using other pages than this one ?

Also another remark: you should not automatically do addslashes to your form fields as it may depend on your server configuration. Your scripts should check magic_quotes status and behave accordingly. Otherwise porting your scripts to another host will be a nightmare (you will have to rewrite the code).

Encenta.com · 02-05-2006, 05:15 PM

Thanks for taking a look. All the other scripts work perfectly and so did this one until adding the enctype attribute.

sdsinc · 02-05-2006, 07:05 PM

Could it be a browser issue ?
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22612

Give it a try with another browser.

Encenta.com · 02-06-2006, 11:43 AM

Thanks for the advice. Problem exists with IE6 too

Encenta.com · 02-09-2006, 10:15 AM

Also, is there a way of renaming files with a unique name before they are uploaded?

Amnezia · 02-09-2006, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by miseria

Also, is there a way of renaming files with a unique name before they are uploaded?

just change the file name variable in $target_path (line 5)

i would change your form method to "post" rather than "get"

Encenta.com · 02-09-2006, 11:23 AM

Yeah, that's the old script. The new one works but once again, other POST variables are empty.

Amnezia · 02-09-2006, 02:53 PM

use $_REQUEST[variablename] instead of $_POST

Encenta.com · 02-09-2006, 03:15 PM

Thanks but still same problem

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