Empty $_FILES array with enctype="multipart/form-data"

PHP
1

This is strange. I have a form to upload photos. Here is my form tag:

<form enctype=“multipart/form-data” action=“<?$_SERVER[“PHP_SELF”];?>” method=“post”>

With the enctype=“multipart/form-data” in the form tag, print_r($photos); returns nothing. If I remove the enctype, it shows the contents of my array.

Not sure what to do here. Any help is greatly appreciated.

2

Show us your full HTML form and also possibly the script after your form is submitted.

3

Ok. Here is a little test form I created:


<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="test.php" method="post">
<input type="file" name="photos[ ]"><br>
<input type="file" name="photos[ ]"><br>
<input type="file" name="photos[ ]"><br>
<input type="file" name="photos[ ]"><br>
<input type="submit">
</form>

Here is the code to display the file names:


$photos = $_POST['photos'];
foreach ($photos as $s) {
  echo "$s<br />";
}

With the enctype in the form tag, it returns nothing. Without, it displays the file names.

4

Thanks logic_earth. That worked, I don’t know how I missed that.

5

Because files are not put in “_POST” they are contained in “_FILES”