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Asked: 2026-05-23T10:45:59+00:00

How do I get my very simple view’s html items to re-appear after a

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How do I get my very simple view’s html items to re-appear after a form’s POST?

I lay out the html controls below, then when the user selects the
‘Upload’ submit button, a file is uploaded (successfully) but all
the previously-laid-out view elements disappear. Again, the upload
of the file works fine. It’s just that the html controls I displayed
on index.php vanish when the form gets uploaded and the browser window
is blank.

How do I get my very simple view back after a form’s POST?

THIS IS index.php:

<body>
<img src="/theWebsite/images/banner2.jpg" /img>
<br />

<input type="button" value="Play" onclick="showAnAlert(){}" />
     // other buttons and text field html elements not shown

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="file-upload.php" method="POST">
      Please choose a file: <input name="uploaded" type="file" /><br />
      <input type="submit" value="Upload" />
 </form>

 </body>

Here is file-upload.php:

<?php
    $target = "upload/";
    $target = $target . basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']) ;

    $uploadingFile = $_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'] ;
    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target))
    {
        // I thought the problem was this 'echo' but the main view still goes blank after
         // I commented this out here....
        //echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']). " has been uploaded";
     }
     else {
            // echo "errmsg"
           }
 ?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    After posting your form to file-upload.php, you do not redirect it back to index.php where the HTML resides. You need to call a redirect after doing your form processing:

    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploaded']['tmp_name'], $target))
{
    // I thought the problem was this 'echo' but the main view still goes blank after
     // I commented this out here....
    //echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploaded']['name']). " has been uploaded";

    // Redirect back....
    header("Location: http://www.example.com/index.php");
    // Always call exit() right after a redirection header to prevent further script execution.
    exit();
 }
 else {
        // echo "errmsg"
 }

    You may also need to redirect in your error condition. In that case, put the header() call at the very end.

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