Question

I need to make sure that either the text was entered into the form’s textarea input element or a file attached through the file input element.
I tried various things, including this:

if((empty($_POST['text'])) && (!empty($_FILES['uploadedfile']))) {
            $errors .= 'Please either enter your text or attach a file.<br/><br/>';
        }

Doesn’t work.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Try

if((empty($_POST['text'])) || (empty($_FILES['uploadedfile']))) {
    errors .= 'Please either enter your text or attach a file.<br/><br/>';
}

You only want one OR the other so you ask if the "text" field is empty OR the "uploadFile" is empty