Re: Making $_POST and $_FILES play together nicely

On Tuesday 30 September 2008 09:41:33 pm Mike Potter wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PHP5 .class file that validates form inputs and sends > notification emails from contact pages. Recently a client wanted to > add a file upload function. No sweat, I thought. > > Well, I can't get the $_FILES portion to validate properly in my > .class file, since it apparently only registers the $_POST vars. This > is the section of code, *currently functional as-is* that I need to > modify so that $_FILES is also processed: > > public function validateForm() { > $requiredFields = array( "name" => "My Name", "phone" => > "My > Telephone", "email" => "My Email", > "file" => "My Upload File", "comments" => "My > Comments" ); > > if( isset( $_POST ) && is_array( $_POST ) && count( $_POST ) > 0 ) { > $reqFieldsPresent = true; > $this->msg = "<p>The following required fields were not filled > out:</p><ul>"; foreach( $requiredFields as $field => $value ) { > if( !isset( $_POST[ $field ] ) || > $_POST[ $field ] == "" || > $_POST[ $field ] == $value ) { > $reqFieldsPresent = false; > $this->msg .= "<li>" . $value . "</li>"; > > } > > How can I modify this so that if $_FILES['userfile']['name'] is > present the fileUpload() function can be invoked and the file uploaded > to the client's server, but if the upload file has not been specified > the absence will be reported same as if $_POST['name'] is absent? > > Ski How about using - if(is_uploaded_file($_FILES['userfile']['tmp_name'])) { //success code } else { //failure code }

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