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HTMLHelp Forums _ Server-side Scripting _ Input type file not working, why?

Posted by: Gerry Roston May 4 2022, 09:53 PM

I am beyond confused. Here is a some of my html code (which I copied using my browser’s ‘show source’ capability). Very simple.

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In my code, I have some PHP to gather the data that is inputted and store it in a database. The code works just fine. However, I added two lines to the code:

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echo "checking filename: ";
echo $_FILES['LogoFile']['name'];

and the filename comes back empty, despite my having selected a file. Even weirder, the code used to work, but only stopped working once I moved the code into the <div> and added the style stuff. I suspect that I am missing something trivially easy – can you please point me to a solution.

Posted by: Christian J May 5 2022, 08:55 AM

QUOTE(Gerry Roston @ May 5 2022, 04:53 AM)

I added two lines to the code:

CODE

echo "checking filename: ";
echo $_FILES['LogoFile']['name'];

and the filename comes back empty, despite my having selected a file.

Looks correct to me. Could it be that the above lines are in the wrong place in the PHP script?

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Even weirder, the code used to work, but only stopped working once I moved the code into the <div> and added the style stuff.

I see no reason for that.

(As a sidenote, I wouldn't use CSS absolute positioning like that, also I wouldn't use CSS as nline styles for practical reasons).

Posted by: Christian J May 5 2022, 11:29 AM

Seems the thread got closed by mistake. Opened now.

Posted by: pandy May 5 2022, 11:58 AM

When you moved the code, did you include the PHP tags?

Posted by: Gerry Roston May 5 2022, 05:51 PM

I found my stupid mistake! I had put the new <div> code outside of the <form> tag. Once I adjusted that, everything worked fine.