Help with forms

[David_Wood]

I have created a form which uploads a file to a mysql database. This works fine using:

<FORM NAME="upload" METHOD="POST" ACTION="upload_process.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">

I now want to add some some more fields to the form but when I run the upload script I am only getting the fields relative to the upload file being added to the database even though all the fields have been included in the "mysql_query"

I am assuming that this is something to do with the "enctype"

Has anyone else encountered this problem and if so is there any way around it?

[pdaoust]

hmmmmmmmmmm... I mix form data with files all the time in my forms, and it always behaves the way I would expect it to (i.e., the file goes into my /tmp folder, and the other form elements become variables). So I seriously think enctype isn't the problem.

It's possible that your form data isn't being registered as variables at all. Make sure your php.ini has register_globals set to 1. If you have no control over the php.ini file, and register_globals is set to 0, you can still access the form data using an array called $HTTP_POST_VARS. But if you're doing something as advanced as handling file uploads and throwing them into database fields, you probably already thought of that 🙂

when you say "fields relative to the upload file" being added to the database, what do you mean?

HTH
Paul