Validation to upload form

[simwiz]

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
<input type="file" name="file">
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

simple form as follows! Basically i would like validation to the input type file! Basically if the user doent browse a file then dont pass the information to a database!

Ive tried

if(isset($POST['Submit']))
{
echo $POST['file'];
}

no data is echoed even when a file is specifed! ANy ideas why the post var is empty yet the field within html contains the target file address ?

thanks ! si

[devinemke]

you need to add enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form tag and then inspect the contents of the $_FILES array:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" name="file"><br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<?php
print_r($_FILES);
?>

[simwiz]

oh right cheers, oh btw I did use the enctype when i implemented it but il try the $_FILES array var

cheers