[Resolved] $_FILE & $_HTTP_POST_FILES not the same?

scTom

When using a form to upload files I don't get the file information in $_FILE, but I get it in $HTTP_POST_FILES.

This confuses me especially since it is recommended to use $_FILE instead of $HTTP_POST_FILES. 😕

The upload form has the enctype tag properly specified as multipart/form-data

my php code at this point is simply doing a print_r() to look at the data.

I've looked all over and scoured these forums to see if someone else had the same problem and a solution, but no luck.

Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

With my luck it'll be something very simple that I just keep overlooking. :rolleyes:

I'm running Apache2 with PHP 4.3.1 on a Linux box.

Thanks for any help that is able to b given.

jayant

perhaps something in the code
give the code you are using.

also make ur u dont have something weird in ur php.ini

scTom

this is the form I am using for the upload

print "<FORM action=\"" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "\" enctype=\"multipart/form-data\" method=\"POST\">\n";
print "<input type=file name=\"UploadFile\" value=\"\" />\n";
print "</form>";

This is a snippet of the code I am using to view the upload information.

print "Request<br />";
print_r( $REQUEST);
print "<br />FILE<br />";
print_r( $FILE);
print "<br />HTTP_POST_FILES<br />";
print_r( $HTTP_POST_FILES);
print "<br /><br />";

This is the output

<body>
Request<br />Array
(
[MAX_FILE_SIZE] => 10000000
[Item] => 16
[AdminThing] => Item
[AdminThingID] => 1
[Name] => RR.doc
[Description] =>
[ActionDetail] => Change
[delete] =>
[PHPSESSID] => 580d4e4771509d844ba351982e94eeb6
)
<br />FILE<br /><br />HTTP_POST_FILES<br />Array
(
[UploadFile] => Array
(
[name] => bomb32.zip
[type] => application/x-zip-compressed
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpNx5xcC
[error] => 0
[size] => 211679
)

)

notice nothing under FILE - nothing in $FILE

AH HA!!!😃

As I stated previously it was probably something very simple - $FILES not $FILE. I don't know where I came up with the singular - I thought I double checked the docs twice and thrice to make sure about all spellings and contexts were correct.

Thanks for tolerating my trying to figure this out - I'm not usually this bad 😉