File_name, _size, _type empty after upload

Caz

Hi all,

i'm just trying the upload for the first time, on a win2000 system, working as the client and the server; and i use the following HTML :

in the calling (form) page; and the php lines :

echo $myImage."<br>";
echo $myImage_name."<br>";
echo $myImage_size."<br>";
echo $myImage_type."<br>";

for testing purpose.
The first line, echoing $myImage does display the path string for the image on the client side; but the 3 other lines don't display anything... Testing empty() for each variables also confirms they are empty...

Do i do something wrong? Would this be related to the windows backslash file path structure? I've already noticed PHP wasn't fond of those backslashes...

Thank you for your help!
By the way i'm just sending my message at the end of a long working day, so i'll just be back in 12 hours to read and reply!

Thank you!

edwardsbc

Sound like you are using old file upload methodolgy. Check out this page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php

Basically you should have something like this:

echo $_FILES['myImage']['name']."<br>"; 
echo $_FILES['myImage']['size']."<br>"; 
echo $_FILES['myImage']['type']."<br>";

Caz

... there is absolutely no change when i test this syntax, the 3 lines remain empty.

I've checked the page you mentionned, and it reads :

"If the PHP directive register_globals is on, related variable names will also exist. register_globals defaults to off as of PHP 4.2.0" (i'm using version 4.2.2).
So i've checked my config, and register_globals is actually on, so if i got it right, it should have worked in the first place with the $myImage_name syntax??

i've also discovered in this page the "error" entry for the $_FILES array, so i've added a line to test this variable. Still empty...

I'm thus reinventing the wheel, and "manually" extracting the file name out of the complete path string; so that i can move forward today on that part; but i'm still wondering what is wrong with this?
I'll keep reading the forum part of the page, maybe someone there has already met this problem.

Any help will still be appreciated! 🙂

Thanks!
Caz

Caz

Each and every time, i feel there's something obvious that i'm doing wrong.

Each and every time, i'm right!

This time, i just didn't specify the use of the HTTP POST method in the HTML Form...

The answer was in the page you mentionned; thanks again for this link!

I think i'll go hide in some deep deep forest for a while...

(just after i've completed this small app, that is)

Thank you!
Caz