$_FILES and $HTTP_POST_FILES empty

Garbett

Both the $_FILES and $HTTP_POST_FILES variables are empty using the simple test scripts in the documentation.
I'm using PHP version 4.2.3 and the configuration appears to be in order.

register_globals = On
file_uploads = On

What would be causing this?

EviL_CodE

Your not uploading anything?

Your form html is incorrect?

Got a code snippet so we can have a look?

Remember $_FILES & $HTTP_POST_FILES are Arrays. You can't just echo them. See what's in an array with: -

print("<pre>");
print_r($_FILES);
print("</pre>");

Garbett

That's what I'm using to see what's in them. They are empty, nothing nada. It's really baffling me. I've just fiddled with the upload directory setting to see if that had any effect. Nothing.

Using the simple "copy" script in the docs works, it's just that I can't do anything more secure using $_FILES.

<?php
if($userfile) {
$base = basename($userfile);
copy($userfile, "/tmp/$base"); echo "Successfully Added!<br>\n";
//$username : contains the name of TMP file, $usrfile_name : it's the real name of file
echo "<pre>\n";
print_r($_FILES);
echo "</pre>\n";

}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post" name="upload">
File to Upload: <input type=file name=userfile><BR>
<input type=submit value="Upload">
</form>

Garbett

The html form tag must contain the attribute 'entype="multipart/form-data"' or it will not create these variables!

berbbrown

Have you checked that you encoding for the form is correct. It should read:

[FONT=courier new]
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="whatever.php" NAME="uploadfile" enctype="multipart/form-data">
[/FONT]

Just a thought.