enctype...

[SuIXidaL]

is there a way that i could get both the entire path and filename of an input that has been passed on to a page by POST method.. here's a snippet..

<form method="post" action="upload_action.php">

<input name="index_file" type="file" id="index_file">

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">

</form>

upon submitting.. php should pass two different values to two different variabale...

echo $file = $_POST['index_file'];
echo "<br>";
echo $path = dirname($file);
echo "<br>";

echo $filename = $_FILES['index_file']['name'];

but it only echoes the $file and $path ...

i know that the enctype for the form should be set to enctype="multipart/form-data" ...

but if i change the enctype... it echoes $filename only..

anyone.. help...

[devinemke]

you want to upload a file and also get the full path of the file on the client machine? I don't think that is possible. you can obviosly get just the file name like this:

<form action="upload_action.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="index_file" value="index_file">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

and then in "upload_action.php" you can access the filename with $_FILES['index_file']['name']

[SuIXidaL]

just did that... actually got the problem solved...

i have a new problem... is_dir() doesn't work... why is it it cannot check that what it is reading is a directory...

i have 1 filename and three directories... but why is it that still prints all of them...