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This is my second question on the forum. I've exhausted all avenues of researching this on my own. I have an HTML form the will be processed with a script. In this form the user has the option to upload up to 10 images.... each image has its own entry field like this...

<form action="upload.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file" id="file" /> <br /> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form>

The php is this...

$client = $_POST['company']; $date = date("mdy"); $clientFolder = $client . $date; mkdir('../../../uploads/' . $clientFolder . '/', 0700); $folderPath = '../../../uploads/' . $clientFolder . '/'; if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif") || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/jpeg") || ($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/pjpeg")) && ($_FILES["file"]["size"] < 100000)) { if ($_FILES["file"]["error"] > 0) { echo "Return Code: " . $_FILES["file"]["error"] . "<br />"; } else { echo "Upload: " . $_FILES["file"]["name"] . "<br />"; echo "Type: " . $_FILES["file"]["type"] . "<br />"; echo "Size: " . ($_FILES["file"]["size"] / 1024) . " Kb<br />"; echo "Temp file: " . $_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] . "<br />"; if (file_exists($folderPath . $_FILES["file"]["name"])) { echo $_FILES["file"]["name"] . " already exists. "; } else { move_uploaded_file($_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"], $folderPath . $_FILES["file"]["name"]); echo "Stored in: " . $folderPath . $_FILES["file"]["name"]; } } } else { echo "Invalid file"; }

I can get one file to upload correctly but not more than one. I used this tutorial. http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_file_upload.asp

Do I need to loop through these? Or do I need unique name's and id's? Any help will be appreciated! I'm new to php.... I have to say though.. I love it!!! so far...

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I haven't browsed your full code but if you use the same name for different form elements you will lose all values except one.

There's a little exception that you'll probably want to use: adding square brackets will make PHP build an array:

<label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file[]"> <label for="file">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file[]">

You can use var_dump() to inspect the exact structure from $_FILES.

Secondly, the id HTML attribute is supposed to hold a unique identifier. Your client-side scripting is likely to behave wrong.

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This is interesting... I'm eager to learn as much as I can. I went over to the php manual to check our var_dump() but couldn't wrap my brain around this. Would you give me another hint on what to do next?
The next is step is probably the Handling file uploads chapter.
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Maybe you want to name your inputs differently (say: file1, file2 etc) then in PHP you would do something like:

$i = 1; while(isset($_POST['file'.$i])){ //do upload here $i++; }

The reason why you get only 1 file uploaded is because you named the inputs "file" (and because you don't loop through the inputs). Change that and it should be fine.

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OK so I'm trying to think this through. I would have <label for="file1">Filename:</label> <input type="file" name="file1" id="file1" /> <label for="file2">Filename:</label> <input type="file2" name="file" id="file2" /> THEN $i = 0; while(isset($_POST['file'.$i])){ //do upload here --- ???? the code that goes here starts if ((($_FILES["file"]["type"] == "image/gif") and includes whole statement???? //// $i++; }
exactly, include the whole if statement
sorry, had a bug, $i should start from 1, not 0, if you are naming the inputs from file1. i've edited my post appropriately.

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