Does anyone know why...

[Anon]

I have this field:
<input type="file" name="img">

Now... When my form tag is like this:
<form method="post" action="index.php3">
and I select image name 326 on my desktop and press submit, I echo $img on the page i submitted to and get this:
C:\windows\desktop\326.jpg.

When my form tag is like this:
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="index.php3">
When I do exacly the same thing I echo out \php2... What in gods name is that?
Someone told me it was something about tmp directory that I must set in my php.ini...

Any one got a suggestion?
A whole project depends on this thing...
With great thanks in advance, Arni

[Anon]

If you multipart encode the form, the file gets uploaded and I believe $img is an array that contains info on where the file is placed with its temporary name, the size, the mime-type, and the original file name.

If you don't encode it like that, I believe that $img is just a string file name.

[Anon]

Sorry, but encode it like what?
me be stupido 🙂

Chad wrote:

If you multipart encode the form, the file gets uploaded and I believe $img is an array that contains info on where the file is placed with its temporary name, the size, the mime-type, and the original file name.

If you don't encode it like that, I believe that $img is just a string file name.

[Anon]

"Another behind-the-scenes step that happens in the transaction is that the data gets encoded using standard URL encoding. This is a method for translating spaces and other characters not permitted in URLs (such as slashes) into their hexadecimal equivalents. For example, the space character translates to %20, the slash character is transferred as %2F." - Taken from Web Design in a Nutshell.

The 'enctype' attribute in the 'form' tag identifies how you are encoding the data in your form to be sent to the server. The default encoding method is the Internet Media Type (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) which works for most forms, but if you want to upload a file to the server, you must use the 'file' type 'input' tag and encode the form with 'multipart/form-data'.

In php, the name of the file tag,$img in your case, turns into an array that has values that references where the web server stored the file it uploaded from your form.

Check out the php-manual at http://www.php.net/manual/features.file-upload.php .