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Asked: 2026-05-27T15:26:36+00:00

I have ZERO experience coding uploading files through browser, so this part is all

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I have ZERO experience coding uploading files through browser, so this part is all very new to me.

I need to give users (in fact they will be only one or two authorized users) a way to upload multiple text files (think 50-200 files) directly into a MYSQL database.

I don’t want to give them FTP access, but am OK allowing them to enter files into the database.

I can figure out how to get the data from a PHP array into the MYSQL database.

What I can’t figure out is how to get the contents of multiple files into the PHP array(s).

Please help out with the code.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This example should help you understand the basic idea

    <?php
$fileContents = Array();

if(count($_FILES) != 0){
    foreach($_FILES as $file){
        $fp = fopen($file["tmp_name"], "r");
        array_push($fileContents, fread($fp, $file["size"]));
        fclose($fp);
    }

    //$fileContents now holds all of the text of every file uploaded
}
?> 


<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <form action="test.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" name="file1" id="file" />
    <input type="file" name="file2" id="file" />
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>

    It first checks that there has been files posted to itself.
    If there is files, it loops through each and opens them while they are in their temporary file state.
    After that it reads all of the contents at once (be careful with this) using the size attribute that sent with it.
    At the same time, it is pushing the contents into the array called $fileContents.
    So $fileContents[0] holds the first text file and so on.

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