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udaya
udaya

Reputation: 9778

Multiple file upload in php

I want to upload multiple files and store them in a folder and get the path and store it in the database... Any good example you looked for doing multiple file upload...

Note: Files can be of any type...

Upvotes: 146

Views: 484259

Answers (13)

Andy Braham
Andy Braham

Reputation: 10163

Some further explanation might be useful for someone trying to upload multiple files. Here is what you need to do:

  • Input name must be be defined as an array i.e. name="inputName[]"
  • Input element must have multiple="multiple" or just multiple
  • In your PHP file use the syntax "$_FILES['inputName']['param'][index]"
  • Make sure to look for empty file names and paths, the array might contain empty strings. Use array_filter() before count.

Here is a down and dirty example (showing just relevant code)

HTML:

<input name="upload[]" type="file" multiple="multiple" />

PHP:

//$files = array_filter($_FILES['upload']['name']); //something like that to be used before processing files.

// Count # of uploaded files in array
$total = count($_FILES['upload']['name']);

// Loop through each file
for( $i=0 ; $i < $total ; $i++ ) {

  //Get the temp file path
  $tmpFilePath = $_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'][$i];

  //Make sure we have a file path
  if ($tmpFilePath != ""){
    //Setup our new file path
    $newFilePath = "./uploadFiles/" . $_FILES['upload']['name'][$i];

    //Upload the file into the temp dir
    if(move_uploaded_file($tmpFilePath, $newFilePath)) {

      //Handle other code here

    }
  }
}

Upvotes: 327

Kalpesh Rajai
Kalpesh Rajai

Reputation: 2056

extract($_POST);
    $error=array();
    $extension=array("jpeg","jpg","png","gif");
    foreach($_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"] as $key=>$tmp_name)
            {
                $file_name=$_FILES["files"]["name"][$key];
                $file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key];
                $ext=pathinfo($file_name,PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
                if(in_array($ext,$extension))
                {
                    if(!file_exists("photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$file_name))
                    {
                        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key],"photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$file_name);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        $filename=basename($file_name,$ext);
                        $newFileName=$filename.time().".".$ext;
                        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp=$_FILES["files"]["tmp_name"][$key],"photo_gallery/".$txtGalleryName."/".$newFileName);
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    array_push($error,"$file_name, ");
                }
            }

and you must check your HTML code

<form action="create_photo_gallery.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <table width="100%">
        <tr>
            <td>Select Photo (one or multiple):</td>
            <td><input type="file" name="files[]" multiple/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center">Note: Supported image format: .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .gif</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" value="Create Gallery" id="selectedButton"/></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</form>

Nice link on:

PHP Single File Uploading with vary basic explanation.

PHP file uploading with the Validation

PHP Multiple Files Upload With Validation Click here to download source code

PHP/jQuery Multiple Files Upload With The ProgressBar And Validation (Click here to download source code)

How To Upload Files In PHP And Store In MySql Database (Click here to download source code)

Upvotes: -1

Adam Falchetta
Adam Falchetta

Reputation: 85

This is what worked for me. I had to upload files, store filenames and I had additional inof from input fields to store as well and one record per multiple file names. I used serialize() then added that to the main sql query.

  class addReminder extends dbconn {
    public function addNewReminder(){

           $this->exdate = $_POST['exdate'];
           $this->name = $_POST['name'];
           $this->category = $_POST['category'];
           $this->location = $_POST['location'];
           $this->notes = $_POST['notes'];



           try {

                     if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
                       $total = count($_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name']);
                       for($i=0;$i<$total;$i++){
                         $fileName = $_FILES['fileUpload']['name'][$i];
                         $ext = pathinfo($fileName, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
                         $newFileName = md5(uniqid());
                         $fileDest = 'filesUploaded/'.$newFileName.'.'.$ext;
                         $justFileName = $newFileName.'.'.$ext;
                         if($ext === 'pdf' || 'jpeg' || 'JPG'){
                             move_uploaded_file($_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name'][$i], $fileDest);
                             $this->fileName = array($justFileName);
                             $this->encodedFileNames = serialize($this->fileName);
                             var_dump($this->encodedFileNames);
                         }else{
                           echo $fileName . ' Could not be uploaded. Pdfs and jpegs only please';
                         }
                       }

                    $sql = "INSERT INTO reminders (exdate, name, category, location, fileUpload, notes) VALUES (:exdate,:name,:category,:location,:fileName,:notes)";
                    $stmt = $this->connect()->prepare($sql);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':exdate', $this->exdate);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':name', $this->name);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':category', $this->category);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':location', $this->location);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':fileName', $this->encodedFileNames);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':notes', $this->notes);
                    $stmt->execute();
                  }

           }catch(PDOException $e){
             echo $e->getMessage();
           }
      }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Pekka
Pekka

Reputation: 449385

It's not that different from uploading one file - $_FILES is an array containing any and all uploaded files.

There's a chapter in the PHP manual: Uploading multiple files

If you want to enable multiple file uploads with easy selection on the user's end (selecting multiple files at once instead of filling in upload fields) take a look at SWFUpload. It works differently from a normal file upload form and requires Flash to work, though. SWFUpload was obsoleted along with Flash. Check the other, newer answers for the now-correct approach.

Upvotes: 5

Rohit Mandiwal
Rohit Mandiwal

Reputation: 10462

this simple script worked for me.

<?php

foreach($_FILES as $file){
  //echo $file['name']; 
  echo $file['tmp_name'].'</br>'; 
  move_uploaded_file($file['tmp_name'], "./uploads/".$file["name"]);
}

?>

Upvotes: 8

Vishnu Bhadoriya
Vishnu Bhadoriya

Reputation: 1676

$property_images = $_FILES['property_images']['name'];
    if(!empty($property_images))
    {
        for($up=0;$up<count($property_images);$up++)
        {
            move_uploaded_file($_FILES['property_images']['tmp_name'][$up],'../images/property_images/'.$_FILES['property_images']['name'][$up]);
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Merbin Joe
Merbin Joe

Reputation: 688

We can easy to upload multiple files using php by using the below script.

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<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    $j = 0; //Variable for indexing uploaded image 

 $target_path = "uploads/"; //Declaring Path for uploaded images
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($_FILES['file']['name']); $i++) {//loop to get individual element from the array

        $validextensions = array("jpeg", "jpg", "png");  //Extensions which are allowed
        $ext = explode('.', basename($_FILES['file']['name'][$i]));//explode file name from dot(.) 
        $file_extension = end($ext); //store extensions in the variable

  $target_path = $target_path . md5(uniqid()) . "." . $ext[count($ext) - 1];//set the target path with a new name of image
        $j = $j + 1;//increment the number of uploaded images according to the files in array       

   if (($_FILES["file"]["size"][$i] < 100000) //Approx. 100kb files can be uploaded.
                && in_array($file_extension, $validextensions)) {
            if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'][$i], $target_path)) {//if file moved to uploads folder
                echo $j. ').<span id="noerror">Image uploaded successfully!.</span><br/><br/>';
            } else {//if file was not moved.
                echo $j. ').<span id="error">please try again!.</span><br/><br/>';
            }
        } else {//if file size and file type was incorrect.
            echo $j. ').<span id="error">***Invalid file Size or Type***</span><br/><br/>';
        }
    }
}
?>

Upvotes: 0

Cheejyg
Cheejyg

Reputation: 356

Here is a function I wrote which returns a more understandable $_FILES array.

function getMultiple_FILES() {
    $_FILE = array();
    foreach($_FILES as $name => $file) {
        foreach($file as $property => $keys) {
            foreach($keys as $key => $value) {
                $_FILE[$name][$key][$property] = $value;
            }
        }
    }
    return $_FILE;
}

Upvotes: 5

HCV
HCV

Reputation: 41

I run foreach loop with error element, look like

 foreach($_FILES['userfile']['error'] as $k=>$v)
 {
    $uploadfile = 'uploads/'. basename($_FILES['userfile']['name'][$k]);
    if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'][$k], $uploadfile)) 
    {
        echo "File : ", $_FILES['userfile']['name'][$k] ," is valid, and was                      successfully uploaded.\n";
    }

    else 
    {
        echo "Possible file : ", $_FILES['userfile']['name'][$k], " upload attack!\n";
    }   

 }

Upvotes: 2

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 49

Simple is that, just count the files array first, then in while loop you can easily do this like 

$count = count($_FILES{'item_file']['name']);

now you got total number of files right.

In while loop do like this:

$i = 0;
while($i<$count)
{
    Upload one by one like we do normally
    $i++;
}

Upvotes: 4

kdniazi
kdniazi

Reputation: 77

HTML

  1. create div with id='dvFile';

  2. create a button;

  3. onclick of that button calling function add_more()

JavaScript

function  add_more() {
  var txt = "<br><input type=\"file\" name=\"item_file[]\">";
  document.getElementById("dvFile").innerHTML += txt;
}

PHP

if(count($_FILES["item_file"]['name'])>0)
 { 
//check if any file uploaded
 $GLOBALS['msg'] = ""; //initiate the global message
  for($j=0; $j < count($_FILES["item_file"]['name']); $j++)
 { //loop the uploaded file array
   $filen = $_FILES["item_file"]['name']["$j"]; //file name
   $path = 'uploads/'.$filen; //generate the destination path
   if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES["item_file"]['tmp_name']["$j"],$path)) 
{
   //upload the file
    $GLOBALS['msg'] .= "File# ".($j+1)." ($filen) uploaded successfully<br>";
    //Success message
   }
  }
 }
 else {
  $GLOBALS['msg'] = "No files found to upload"; //No file upload message 
}

In this way you can add file/images, as many as required, and handle them through php script.

Upvotes: 6

rjv
rjv

Reputation: 6766

Multiple files can be selected and then uploaded using the
<input type='file' name='file[]' multiple>
The sample php script that does the uploading:

<html>
<title>Upload</title>
<?php
    session_start();
    $target=$_POST['directory'];
        if($target[strlen($target)-1]!='/')
                $target=$target.'/';
            $count=0;
            foreach ($_FILES['file']['name'] as $filename) 
            {
                $temp=$target;
                $tmp=$_FILES['file']['tmp_name'][$count];
                $count=$count + 1;
                $temp=$temp.basename($filename);
                move_uploaded_file($tmp,$temp);
                $temp='';
                $tmp='';
            }
    header("location:../../views/upload.php");
?>
</html>

The selected files are received as an array with

$_FILES['file']['name'][0] storing the name of first file.
$_FILES['file']['name'][1] storing the name of second file.
and so on.

Upvotes: 41

muaz khalid
muaz khalid

Reputation: 49

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$max_no_img=4; // Maximum number of images value to be set here

echo "<form method=post action='' enctype='multipart/form-data'>";
echo "<table border='0' width='400' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' align=center>";
for($i=1; $i<=$max_no_img; $i++){
echo "<tr><td>Images $i</td><td>
<input type=file name='images[]' class='bginput'></td></tr>";
}

echo "<tr><td colspan=2 align=center><input type=submit value='Add Image'></td></tr>";
echo "</form> </table>";
while(list($key,$value) = each($_FILES['images']['name']))
{
    //echo $key;
    //echo "<br>";
    //echo $value;
    //echo "<br>";
if(!empty($value)){   // this will check if any blank field is entered
$filename =rand(1,100000).$value;    // filename stores the value

$filename=str_replace(" ","_",$filename);// Add _ inplace of blank space in file name, you can remove this line

$add = "upload/$filename";   // upload directory path is set
//echo $_FILES['images']['type'][$key];     // uncomment this line if you want to display the file type
//echo "<br>";                             // Display a line break
copy($_FILES['images']['tmp_name'][$key], $add); 
echo $add;
    //  upload the file to the server
chmod("$add",0777);                 // set permission to the file.
}
}
?>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 4

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