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Thats not possible. The value of &lt;input type=&quot;file&quot;&gt; is neither writeable via HTML nor via JS, only via user interactions. THis is due security reasons as else forms could steal files from the user without permisions of the user.
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Thats not possible. The value of <input type="file"> is neither writeable via HTML nor via JS, only via user interactions. THis is due security reasons as else forms could steal files from the user without permisions of the user.

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A solution might be to implement additional Javascript form validation, such that the missing fields are detected clientside.<br />
Note that this should not replace your serverside validation as not everyone might have javascript enabled.<br />
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-r-
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A solution might be to implement additional Javascript form validation, such that the missing fields are detected clientside.
Note that this should not replace your serverside validation as not everyone might have javascript enabled.

-r-

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That's what I thought hernst42 - except I didn't know why exactly (thanks). So would there be another way with a normal text field used to load a file using PHP code??
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That's what I thought hernst42 - except I didn't know why exactly (thanks). So would there be another way with a normal text field used to load a file using PHP code??

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In PHP when you are processing a form and don't get the right answers or have missing fields and redisplay the form using value=$_POST['fieldname'] to display the information which was entered before, how do you display the filename which was entered into a FileField?
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In PHP when you are processing a form and don't get the right answers or have missing fields and redisplay the form using value=$_POST['fieldname'] to display the information which was entered before, how do you display the filename which was entered into a FileField?

Displaying the contents of FileField in a form via PHP when redisplayed due to validation failure

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