undefined variable: form_data

jpr

Hey, I was playing around with storing files in a database. However I ran into this problem. Php keeps complaining about form_data not being set. So I of course changed my code and called this variable by $_POST['form_data']. However when I do this, I am losing the data for some reason, and fread throws an error. Why can I access $POST['form_description'], which is from the same form, but not $POST['form_data']. By the way I have been following the article posted here:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/florian19991014.php3?page=3

Thank you for your help!

eli03

what's this?

" Why can I access $POST['form_description'];"

//it should be 

$_POST['form_description']
// or just a typo error?

:rolleyes:

jpr

Sorry, that was a typo. My problem comes from when register_globals is turned off. I can not settle for the quick fix of turning it on. Is there a different way to access form_data, kinda like how I access $_POST['form_description']. Thank you.

<form method="post" action="index.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
File Description:<br>
<input type="text" name="form_description"  size="40">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="1000000">
<br>File to upload/store in database:<br>
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="downloads">
<input type="hidden" name="p" value="add2">
<input type="file" name="form_data"  size="40">
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Add Download">
</form>

Sxooter

It's a little more complex than that. Read the section in the PHP docs on uploading files to see what the names of the vars are:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.php