ENCTYPE=&quot;multipart/form-data&quot;

ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"

Anon

Hi. I have several forms where i use ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data".

This app is running ok on my server. However when i tested my scripts on a new server i found out that the forms i use ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" never get executed. When i remove this field the forms get processed ok. The big problem is for forms that upload files, image etc.

The files don't get uploaded and the script exits. WITH enctype the script doesn't get executed at all. WITHOUT the file doesn't get recognized and i get an error.

After a little search i found out that the problem is the enctype, but in previous posts in this forum nobody gives a solution. In the comments of the manual someone says that it might be a firewall problem, but that's not my case (home dial-up).

Could someone help please.
Thanks

John

siwis

Change hosting providors!

Many things can be blocked at the server end, HTTP file uploading being one of them. They are blocked either to prevent the uploading of malicious files or simply to prevent people running scripts that the hosts would prefer didn't get run.

Anon

Great idea Si 🙂

I know that it's a host's problem one way or another. But i'd like to know the fix before i switch the host. And i found that a lot of people had problems with enctype.

Anon

I too am having the same problem.

Warning: Unable to open '' for reading: No such file or directory in /usr...

This problem has to stem from the new release of php. or what Si said.

siwis

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="<?PHP echo "$PHP_SELF"; ?>?action=upload">

AFAIK, this enctype can only be used with POST, so assuming you are doing it that way, I don't see what alternative you have.

Anon

So.
Another post about ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" without solution 🙂

Anon

If you have "ACTION=" and so on in capital letters I've noticed that can cause problems with processing of forms when it comes to image uploads. Of course my solution was to make everything smaller case and my script now works perfectly fine.

would be changed to

worked for me hope it helps you =)