multiple uploads

[juschillinnow]

I am developing a "program" and I'm trying to take in to consideration those that are to lazy to upgrade from php3 or whatever to current 🙂 so....

I have a form like so:

<input type="file" name="upload1">
<input type="file" name="upload2">

receiving script is:

if($upload1 != "")
{
copy($upload1, "./cat_images/".$upload1_name);
$lg_image = $upload1_name;
}
if($upload2_name != "")
{
copy($upload2, "./cat_images/".$upload2_name);
$sm_image = $upload2_name;
}

Is there a way to do this. I have seen lots of posts about this, but no answers other that using $_FILE[whatever] and I don't want to do this as it's only available in a later version of PHP

I can echo out $upload1 and $upload2. But $upload1_name and $upload2_name both return null.

Why? and what can I do?

[diego25]

I usually use references to switch between $_GET and $HTTP_GET_VARS (and the othery arrays like POST, COOKIES, etc).

Basically this is what I have on top of my scripts:

if (isset($_GET)) { // is version greater than 4.1.0
	$GET     = &$_GET;
} else {
	$GET     = &$HTTP_GET_VARS;
}

So later in my scripts, I use $GET, instead of $_GET or $HTTP_GET_VARS.

Diego

[juschillinnow]

ok, diego.... You help me out alot, buuuut. How does this help me out any in my current situation?

[diego25]

You'd use that code for the $_FILES or $HTTP_POST_FILES array:

if (isset($_FILES)) { // is version greater than 4.1.0

$FILES     = &$_FILES;

} else {

$FILES     = &$HTTP_POST_FILES;

}

So now you can use $FILES, regardless of the PHP version.

Diego

[juschillinnow]

ah. Gotcha. That makes sense. THANKS. I'll use that. Turns out that my mistake was actually elementary. I forgot ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" in my form heading.