strange behavior from $_FILES array

[sneakyimp]

anybody know how this code:

$user_avatar_size = (!empty($_FILES['avatar']['size'])) ? $_FILES['avatar']['size'] : 0;
echo 'user_avatar_size' . $user_avatar_size . '<br>';
die('files:' . $_FILES['avatar']['size']);

could output this:

user_avatar_size1592
files:1592

[krt]

I see no problem with that, is the output you wrote what you want it to output or what is being outputted because your wording can be interpreted two ways.

[LoganK]

It's outputting that because that's what you told it to output. PHP is doing what you programmed it to do. Nothing's wrong with the code.

[sneakyimp]

sorry...i was in a hurry. it's actually this code that causes me problems:

$user_avatar_size = (!empty($_FILES['avatar']['size'])) ? $_FILES['avatar']['size'] : 0;
echo 'filesize:';
echo $_FILES['avatar']['size'];
echo '<br>user_avatar_size:';
die($user_avatar_size);

the output is this:

filesize:369
user_avatar_size:

for some reason the statement that assigns a value to $user_avatar_size is returning an empty string when i use the die() command. it was also turning up empty when i was using it in logical comparison code. when i echo it, it comes out just fine. i can also use floatval() on it and that seems to work too.