Question

I have used the form below to upload multiple images to my server.

<form name="addimageForm" id="addimageForm" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">              
    Gallery Image: 
    <input name="image_name[]" type="file" id="image_name" multiple="true">
    <input type="submit" name="addCatImage"/>
</form>

But I am confused how I should loop through it so that I can insert multiple images in my database. I used the code below, and when I run it, even when I select a image, 4 rows are inserted in my table. I think it is inserting all of the array fields(name, size, tmp_name). How can i solve the problem?

foreach ($_FILES[image_name] as $file) {
    $access->uploadSubCatImages();
}

Answer 1

$_FILES is multidimensional. With the syntax that you used, the Filenames would be accessible in

$_FILES['image_name']['name'][0] # for the first one
$_FILES['image_name']['name'][1] # for the second one

and so on.
Here is a link for reference Uploading Multiple Files