Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours, Third Edition

File Upload Forms and Scripts

So far we’ve looked at simple form input. Browsers Netscape 2 or better and Internet Explorer 4 or better all support file uploads, and so, of course, does PHP. In this section, you will examine the features that PHP makes available to deal with this kind of input.

First, we need to create the HTML. HTML forms that include file upload fields must include an ENCTYPE argument:

ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"

PHP also works with an optional hidden field that you can insert before the file upload field. It should be called MAX_FILE_SIZE and should have a value representing the maximum size in bytes of the file that you are willing to accept. This size cannot override the maximum size set in the upload_max_filesize