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panda
panda

Reputation: 1344

PHP handling multipart/form-data

Sorry for the title, because I don't know how to name this problem. Please consider the following code

<?php
var_dump($_POST);
?>
<form name="submit_form" id="submit_form" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="hidden" name="update" value="y">
    <input type="file" name="supplement_file" id="supplement_file" class="btn_general" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

It's a PHP that simply do printing the submitting information. The first run, it displays empty, that makes sense. However, after I click submit, it still shows empty. But the request payload has been set already. I can see it via network tab in console.

------WebKitFormBoundaryO78Y428dBFHmIDbk
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="update"

y
------WebKitFormBoundaryO78Y428dBFHmIDbk
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="supplement_file"; filename="supplement2.wmv"
Content-Type: video/x-ms-wmv


------WebKitFormBoundaryO78Y428dBFHmIDbk--

What I expect is I can see the "update"="y" after I submit this form.

I am using PHP 5.3 is that is the problem? And the content-type is strange. It's Content-Type:text/html in this submit. Am I missing something?

UPDATE

The header information of the request

Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:369
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Tue, 30 Dec 2014 10:01:22 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100
Server:Apache/2.2.17 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8o PHP/5.3.4 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1
X-Powered-By:PHP/5.3.5

Upvotes: 0

Views: 771

Answers (3)

Priyank
Priyank

Reputation: 3868

Yes I can see the "update"="y". it's working perfectly!!!

<!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=iso-8859-1" />
  <title>Untitled Document</title>
  <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <?php
    if($_POST){
      var_dump($_POST);
    };
  ?>
  <form name="submit_form" id="submit_form" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="hidden" name="update" value="y">
    <input type="file" name="supplement_file" id="supplement_file" class="btn_general" />
    <input type="submit" />
  </form>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

Koen Wesselman
Koen Wesselman

Reputation: 198

Please open your php.ini file and search for these two lines:

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept. post_max_size = 8M

Increase the post_max_size to a higher value.

Upvotes: 3

Jigisha Variya
Jigisha Variya

Reputation: 207

Pls add action into form.and then try.

The form is required to have an action attribute in HTML4. If it's not set, the browser will likely use the same method as providing an empty string to it. You really should set action="" which is perfectly valid HTML4, follows standards, and achieves the same exact result.

<?php
var_dump($_POST);
?>
<form action="" name="submit_form" id="submit_form" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" >
    <input type="hidden" name="update" value="y">
    <input type="file" name="supplement_file" id="supplement_file" class="btn_general" />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

Upvotes: 0

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