I have form which is suppose to post information and upload images, when i post information the form is doing what it should do but when i browse photos it post noting, neither information nor files, can anyone help me why is it doing so? Actually i have 7 file fields in the form with a single one it iw working but with multiple it is not working.
<?php $attributes = array("name" => "project_add");
echo form_open_multipart("project/add", $attributes);?>
<?php echo $this->session->flashdata('msg'); ?>
Project Name <span>*</span><br/>
<input class="form-control" name="name" id="name" type="text"value="<?php echo set_value('name'); ?>" /><br/>
<input class="form-control" name="f_lcpd" id="f_lcpd" type="checkbox" /> <label for ="">Painted Desert</label>`
Invoice <input class="form-control" name="userfile[]" id="" type="file" />
image 1<input class="form-control" name="userfile[]" id="" type="file" />
Image 2<input class="form-control" name="userfile[]" id="" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Save" />
<?php echo form_close(); ?>
controller function
public function add()
{
print_r($_POST);
print_r($_FILES);
}
You should use enctype="multipart/form-data" (to form) when you submit files to server. On server side, you can access these files using $_FILES supergloal and you can access standard POST data using $_POST (only if method="POST")
If you want to submit multiple files, your code should looks like this:
<input name="userfile[]" type="file" /><br />
<input name="userfile[]" type="file" /><br />
And then, on server side (if you are not using any helper):
foreach($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'] as $key => $tmp_name)
// process image upload, e.g. if you want the size: $_FILES['userfile']['size'][$key]
}
You can use the above solution in conjunction with do_upload method in CodeIgniter.