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How to tell from a form field if an image value was entered?

Hi, I am trying to create a function that only tries to upload a photo if a new photo was selected:

function upload() {
	global $errors;
	if((isset($_POST['image'])) && (empty($errors))) {
		if(isset($_GET['edit'])) {
			$table = $_GET['edit'];
		}
		if(isset($_POST['table'])) {
			$table = mysql_clean_strings($_POST['table']);
		}
		echo "hello";
		$image = explode('.',basename($_FILES['image']['name']));
		$image = $image[0];		
		$file = basename($_FILES['image']['name']);	
		$temp_path = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
		$target_path = $table . "/" . $image;
		move_uploaded_file($temp_path, $target_path);
	}
	elseif(isset($_GET['item'])) {
		echo "hi";
		$image = $_GET['item'];
	}
	else {
		$image = "";
	}
	return $image;
}

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I did have:

if((isset($_FILES['image'])) && (empty($errors))) {

but it always thinks there was a file to upload even if there is not value in the form field. But when I use post it never thinks there is a file to upload. What do I do?

I just tried this:

function upload() {
	global $errors;
	if((isset($_FILES['image'])) && (!empty($_FILES['image']))) {
		var_dump($_FILES['image']);
		if(isset($_GET['edit'])) {
			$table = $_GET['edit'];
		}
		if(isset($_POST['table'])) {
			$table = mysql_clean_strings($_POST['table']);
		}
		echo "hello";
		$image = explode('.',basename($_FILES['image']['name']));
		$image = $image[0];		
		$file = basename($_FILES['image']['name']);	
		$temp_path = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
		$target_path = $table . "/" . $image;
		move_uploaded_file($temp_path, $target_path);
	}
	elseif(isset($_GET['item'])) {
		echo "hi";
		$image = $_GET['item'];
	}
	else {
		$image = "";
	}
	return $image;
}

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hielo

(isset($_FILES['image']) && !empty($_FILES['image']) )

and in your form you'll need:
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" ...>

AND also a file field:
<input type="file" name="image" />

FairyBusiness

ASKER

I believe I do have that:

http://www.auroriella.com/edit_product.txt

And this is my latest upload function:

function upload() {
	global $errors;
	if((isset($_FILES['image'])) && (!empty($_FILES['image']))) {
		var_dump($_FILES['image']);
		if(isset($_GET['edit'])) {
			$table = $_GET['edit'];
		}
		if(isset($_POST['table'])) {
			$table = mysql_clean_strings($_POST['table']);
		}
		echo "hello";
		$image = explode('.',basename($_FILES['image']['name']));
		$image = $image[0];		
		$file = basename($_FILES['image']['name']);	
		$temp_path = $_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
		$target_path = $table . "/" . $image;
		move_uploaded_file($temp_path, $target_path);
	}
	elseif(isset($_GET['item'])) {
		echo "hi";
		$image = $_GET['item'];
	}
	else {
		$image = "";
	}
	return $image;
}

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FairyBusiness

ASKER

If i'm not uploading anything I want it to go to this area:

elseif(isset($_GET['item'])) {
            echo "hi";
            $image = $_GET['item'];
      }

but it never makes it there except for when I click to go to that page. It starts out there but when I hit submit it goes up to the

if((isset($_FILES['image'])) && (!empty($_FILES['image']))) {

area even if I didn't enter a value into the file upload field

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FairyBusiness

ASKER

Thanks again!