Posted by lawrence k on 09/19/07 17:14

On Aug 23, 8:55 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> lawrence k wrote:
> > On Aug 23, 12:05 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >> lawrence k wrote:
> >>> On Aug 22, 11:48 pm, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> >>>> lawrence k wrote:
> >>>>> I've a form that starts off like this:
> >>>>> <form method="post" action="profile.php?
> >>>>> id=5&formName=my_story_edit.htm" enctype="multipart/form-data">
> >>>>> <p>Email address:<br />
> >>>>> <input type="text" name="totalFormInputs[users][5][email_address]"
> >>>>> value="lawre...@krubner.com" /></p>
> >>>>> <p>Zip code:<br />
> >>>>> <input type="text" name="totalFormInputs[users][5][zip_code]"
> >>>>> value="22902" /></p>
> >>>>> <p>Personal image:<br />
> >>>>> <input type="file" name="totalFormInputs[users][5][upload_file]" /></
> >>>>> p>
> >>>>> Oddly enough, the "upload_file" has suddenly disappeared from the
> >>>>> uploaded array. When I hit $totalFormInputs with print_r, this is what
> >>>>> I get:
> >>>>> Array
> >>>>> (
> >>>>> [users] => Array
> >>>>> (
> >>>>> [5] => Array
> >>>>> (
> >>>>> [description] => I grew up in New Jersey.
> >>>>> [email_address] => lawre...@krubner.com
> >>>>> [zip_code] => 22902
> >>>>> [time] => 1187380627
> >>>>> )
> >>>>> )
> >>>>> )
> >>>>> Why is the file input not show up?
> >>>>> Everything was working fine a month ago, and now it is broke.
> >>>>> Any help is very much appreciated.
> >> If the HTML is correct, it should show up in the $_POSTvariable. But
> >> since it isn't, you have an HTML problem - not a PHP one.
>
> [bunch of stuff snipped]
>
> > That's what I would expect. It's bizzare, I get the right results in
> > $_FILES, but not in $_POST. How is that possible?
>
> That's right... I shouldn't try to answer at midnight after I've been
> out with the guys... :-)
>
> Yes, it goes in the $_FILESarray, not $_POST.
>
> Once I got some sleep and looked at this again this morning, it was
> obvious :-). Sorry to steer you down the wrong path.


I'm confused about this. How does one associate an upload with
database info? In PHP 4, you could have a form that allowed multiple
form uploads with multiple fields for inputting multiple info:

----------------
Caption your images:

1.) caption input, file input
2.) caption input, file input
3.) caption input, file input
4.) caption input, file input
-----------------

In PHP 4, with a form like this, you knew which file went with which
caption, because the whole 2 dimensional array would show up in
$_POST.

How do you figure out the relationship in PHP5, if the files never
show up in $_POST? Does PHP 5 restrict you to just uploading one file
at a time, if you want to caption the file at the same time?

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