Enctype

[SiKing]

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

 

[Kate]

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

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

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).

 

[SiKing]

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

 

[Kate]

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

Give it a try with another browser.

 

[SiKing]

Thanks for the advice. Problem exists with IE6 too

 

[SiKing]

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

 

[Amnezia]

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"

 

[SiKing]

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

 

[Amnezia]

use $_REQUEST[variablename] instead of $_POST

 

[SiKing]

Thanks but still same problem