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Tomas Lucena
Tomas Lucena

Reputation: 1526

Input type=file make the form empty in firefox

I am doing a simple form in html to upload an image In chrome is working properly but in firefox for some reason the variable $_POST is empty

This is my form

<form action="do_upload.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <fieldset>
            <p>Select a section</p>
                <select name="section" required>
                    <option value="">Please Select</option>
                    <option value="0">Announcements</option>
                    <option value="1">Circulars</option>
                    <option value="2">Corportate Governance</option>
                    <option value="3">Financial Report</option>
                </select>
            <p>Date</p>
                <input type="text" name="date" required>
            <p>Title</p>
                <input type="text" name="title" required>
            <p>Search your file</p>
                <input type="file" name="pdf" required>
            <div class="sep"></div>
            <button type="submit">Do it!</button>
        </fieldset>
    </form>

And in my file do_upload.php I have only this:

print_r($_POST);

Even I fill all the form I always get the array $_POST empty

I know that to get the file I need to use the global $_FILE, I just want to know why firefox show me an empty array when I use input type file.

Any idea? I should be able to get this:

Array ( [section] => 3 [date] => 07/05/2016 [title] => 123 )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 281

Answers (2)

JYoThI
JYoThI

Reputation: 12085

Whenever you do a file upload, the files get populated in the $_FILES global variable, and the other fields get populated in the $_POST global variable.

echo $_FILES['pdf']['name'];

Upvotes: 0

user3119231
user3119231

Reputation:

If your input type is file you have to access the value on serverside via $_FILES["pdf"].

Description

An associative array of items uploaded to the current script via the HTTP POST method. The structure of this array is outlined in the POST method uploads section.

See: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.files.php

And: http://php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php

Upvotes: 1

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