Question

I am trying to create an upload script and am having issues with IE8 and older. (of course 😉 ) In all other browsers it works fine but in IE8 the $_FILES array is empty. This is the html code being used:

<FORM method=post action=api/upload.php target=form8230839>
    <INPUT name=file type=file>
    <INPUT value="Submit Query" type=submit>
    <INPUT name=id value=id66130748349062623150808191 type=hidden>
</FORM>
<IFRAME id=form8230839 name=form8230839></IFRAME> 

(note the code is being generated by javascript createElement so IE8 is writing it out with the caps and lack of quotes around attributes.)

Then in the php file I am doing:

print_r($_FILES);

which returns as just an empty array? Any help would be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

Add enctype="multipart/form-data" to your form tag.

Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4.2