Question

I’m trying to make a webpage that allows the uploading of multiple files at the same times. I will limit the file extensions to the most common images like JPG, JPEG, PNG and GIF.

I’ve done some research on this and everywhere I look it’s flash this and flash that.

I don’t want to use flash really. Especially with Flash 10, which disables the most common used method to enable multifile upload.

What I’m looking for is a way to keep creating more and more input fields, each with a browse button and then with one final upload button at the bottom of the form. Creating the new input fields with a Javascript is nog big deal really.

So I’m wondering how this works. Do I need to give all file-input fields the same name atribute so I can use 1 piece of PHP code to solve this? Or Is there some way for PHP to detect howmany files have been sumbitted and simply put the code for parsing a file inside a for-loop?

Answer 1

Here is the algorithm:

You add the new file input fields to your form. Each of this field MUST have a unique name. Then, on the server side, you loop through the $_FILES array looking how many files have been uploaded and handling them.