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Imri Persiado
Imri Persiado

Reputation: 47

Handling 2 file inputs

I would like to create 2 file inputs and upload both of them to the server. I did it already with 1 file in that way:

<input type="file" name="file" id="file" accept="image/*" step="1">

And the php script something like that:

<?php
if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0)
  echo "Error: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br>";

else
{
    echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br>";
    echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br>";
    echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " kB<br>";
    echo "Stored in: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"];

    if (file_exists("upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]))
        echo $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists. ";
    else
    {
        move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"],
        "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"]);
        echo "Stored in: " . "upload/" . $_FILES["file"]["name"];
    }
}
?>

But now when I want to have 2 inputs, I duplicate the html code:

<input type="file" name="file1" id="file1" accept="image/*" step="1">
<input type="file" name="file2" id="file2" accept="image/*" step="1">

And I have no idea what I need to change or duplicate in my php script.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (2)

user466764
user466764

Reputation: 1176

With the html you have you have two $_FILES multidimensional arrays one referenced as $_FILES['file1'][] and the other as $_FILES['file2'][].

doing a var_dump($_FILES) in your code to will help interrogate what information is being submitted.

You may have to duplicate this block, I've shown code based on your example set to file1 or use a foreach loop such as 

foreach( $_FILES as $file ) {
   //reference each value using $file as follows.
   $file['name'];
   $file['size'];
}

Upvotes: 0

DesertEagle
DesertEagle

Reputation: 599

$_FILES["file"]

references the uploaded file from

<input ... name="file">

so the first level of $_FILES are the names of the HTML file inputs. You can either duplicate your code and change every $_FILES['file'] to $_FILES['file1'] (and $_FILES['file2'] in the duplicated code), or you loop through the $_FILES array - although this could be a security risk, as one could easily trick your script into storing more than two files.

Upvotes: 1

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