asked on php form submission losing data
Hi
I have a website which works fine on my dev server, however once moved to a clients server it doesn't work correctly.
I have a form that allows the client to upload files/images/video etc to the website.
now the site is live on the clients server, he cannot upload images etc... I made the upload folder write enabled, but it still did not work.
After some investigation, it turns out that $_FILES['file'[['name'] is blank... even when a file is uploaded, so my script doesn't try to do anything with the file because it thinks there isn't one.
The form has text fields as well as file upload, and the script deals with the form in a single pass.
Is this something to do with accessing other data from the form before getting the file array?
weird how the exact same code works on my dev server...
Thanks
I have a website which works fine on my dev server, however once moved to a clients server it doesn't work correctly.
I have a form that allows the client to upload files/images/video etc to the website.
now the site is live on the clients server, he cannot upload images etc... I made the upload folder write enabled, but it still did not work.
After some investigation, it turns out that $_FILES['file'[['name'] is blank... even when a file is uploaded, so my script doesn't try to do anything with the file because it thinks there isn't one.
The form has text fields as well as file upload, and the script deals with the form in a single pass.
Is this something to do with accessing other data from the form before getting the file array?
weird how the exact same code works on my dev server...
Thanks
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yes indeed
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Hi again
I have that one covered with a little php.ini file
<?php
upload_max_filesize = 200M ;
post_max_size = 200M ;
max_execution_time = 6000 ;
?>
Doing more investigation.... I have found something odd
there are a number of file inputs on the form, when I do a print_r($_FILES) it lists all of the file inputs except the one I am having trouble with!
could it be that this server is fussy about having a fileinput called 'file'?
I have that one covered with a little php.ini file
<?php
upload_max_filesize = 200M ;
post_max_size = 200M ;
max_execution_time = 6000 ;
?>
Doing more investigation.... I have found something odd
there are a number of file inputs on the form, when I do a print_r($_FILES) it lists all of the file inputs except the one I am having trouble with!
could it be that this server is fussy about having a fileinput called 'file'?
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right, I have checked the code and I can't see any problems (although that doesn't mean there aren't any) but at least I can now use the form to upload the file now...
there must be some malformed html in there somewhere which was causing problems along the line there somewhere...
there must be some malformed html in there somewhere which was causing problems along the line there somewhere...
ASKER
thanks for the assists!
thanks for the replies. I can confirm that the textual data is passed through and updates the database fine.
the 2 servers are slightly different versions of php,
dev: php 5.3.10
client: php 5.2.16