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Dario Russo
Dario Russo

Reputation: 9

PHP not getting attachments, what am I doing wrong?

Newbie question. I'm trying to get attached files in PHP, but I get only an empty $_FILES superglobal array.

Here's my test code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
        <head>
                <title>Test file upload page</title>
        </head>
        <body>

<?php
        if($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
                $data = $_POST['text'];
                $file = isset($_FILES['file']) ? $_FILES['file'] : NULL;
                
                echo("<p>" . $data . "</p>");

                echo(print_r($_POST));
                echo(print_r($_FILES));
                
                if ($file != NULL) {
                        echo("<h1>There is an attachment.</h1>");
                        $fileContent = file_get_contents($_FILES['file']['tmp_name']);
                        echo("<p>" . $fileContent . "<p>");
                } else {
                        echo("<h1>There is no attachment.</h1>");
                }
        } else {
?>

                <form action="formdata.php" method="post">
                        <textarea id="text" name="text" rows="4" cols="66" maxlength="300"></textarea>
                        <input id="file" type="file" name="file" onchange="" />
                        <!--button id="loadFile" onclick="">Upload</button-->
                        <input type="submit" value="Submit">
                </form>

<?php
        }       
?>

And here's all I get, weather I attach a file to input gadget or not.

Test text here.

Array ( [text] => Prova [file] => Meow_Meow.jpeg ) 1Array ( ) 1
There is no attachment.

I have briefly checked php.ini configuration, which I have not edited and has default Ubuntu values. File uploads are definitely on, so I don't think it may be a configuration error.

(base) dario@devmachine:~$ grep -Ri "file_uploads" /etc
/etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini:; Default Value: -1 (Sum of max_input_vars and max_file_uploads)
/etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini:file_uploads = On
/etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini:max_file_uploads = 20
/etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini:; Default Value: -1 (Sum of max_input_vars and max_file_uploads)
/etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini:file_uploads = On
/etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini:max_file_uploads = 20

My final object is to understand how to pass file attachments from JS to PHP. But before being able to do that, I would like to understand how to get attachments from PHP to PHP too!

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