question about empty()

[hkarre]

I have the following code in a script and during testing I saw that it was not working right. It is supposed to redirect the user back to the previous page when empty($FILES['file']) does not have anything in it, but instead the script seems to ignore the two $FILES variables and goes on. The empty($_POST['var']) works though. Am I just not realizing something incredibly simple?

if ((empty($_POST['content'])) || (empty($_FILES['topimage'])) ||  (empty($_FILES['bottomimage']))){

//punctuation edited -:p

[laserlight]

Could you clarify the problem?

If $_POST['content'] is empty, the conditional is satisfied.

[hkarre]

If $_POST['content'] is empty, the conditional is satisfied.

This is the only part that works out of my if statement - the part that is giving me problems is the empty($FILES['file']) it doesn't seem to work because when I leave the form fields blank for the upload files shouldn't empty($FILES['file']) be true and therefore make the if statement true?

And therefore executing the conditional?

--edited to make more sense

[laserlight]

when I leave the form fields blank for the upload files shouldn't empty($_FILES['file']) be false

No, it should evaluate to true.

In any case, once any of the 3 expressions evaluate to true, the whole conditional evaluates to true.