Parsing multipart form data
forms, html, multipartform-data, php
Solution
File uploads come through `$_FILES`. Everything else comes through `$_POST` (assuming of course your HTML form had its `method` attribute set to `"post"`).
Problem
I'm trying to put together a HTML POST-ed form that has two fields--a file upload, and a text field. Since the form has a type multipart/form-data for the file upload, I can't get at the text field through the normal PHP $_POST variable. So how can I get at the text field in the form with PHP? As per requested, here's some code, basically taken directly from Andrew: ``` <html> <body> <form action="test2.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> Name: <input type="text" name="imageName" /> Image: <input type="file" name="image" /> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> <?php echo $_POST['imageName']; echo "<pre>"; echo var_dump($_FILES['image']); echo "</pre>"; ?> ``` That's the entire test file. If I remove the enctype, I can get the POST-ed data, but not the file of course. With the enctype as multipart/form-data, I can get the file, but nothing from the POST-ed data. Here's the output with the enctype: ``` array(5) { ["name"]=> string(34) "testing.png" ["type"]=> string(0) "" ["tmp_name"]=> string(0) "" ["error"]=> int(1) ["size"]=> int(0) } ``` Without: ``` testing NULL ``` Same exact input both times.