Question

must be some thing simply resolving, but as a beginner, i’ve already spend 2 days trying to find out. I’m having a simple form (“enctype=”multipart/form-data”) with few inputs of text and file. I can’t get what’s wrong, i can get user’s text data through getParameter(), but cannot get file getFiles(). i’m on ubuntu 11.04 php5.3

code:

form class:

public function configure()
  {
    $this->setWidgets(array(
      'vendor'  => new sfWidgetFormInputText(array(), array('class' => 'form-text')),
      'image'       => new sfWidgetFormInputFile(array(), array('class' => 'form-text')),
      'city'      => new sfWidgetFormInputText(),
      'email'   => new sfWidgetFormInputText(array('default' => '[e-mail]')),
        'contacts' => new sfWidgetFormTextarea(),
      'description' => new sfWidgetFormTextarea(),
    ));
    $this->setValidators(array(
      'vendor'  => new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)),
        'image'   => new sfValidatorFile(array(
            'required'  => false,
        'path'       => sfConfig::get('sf_upload_dir') . '/images',
        'mime_types' => 'web_images')),
      'city'    => new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)),
        'email' => new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)),
        'contacts'  => new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)),
        'description'   => new sfValidatorString(array('required' => false)),
    ));
    $this->widgetSchema->setNameFormat('pv[%s]');
  }

action:

public function executeCreate(sfWebRequest $request)
{
$this->forward404Unless($request->isMethod(sfRequest::POST));
return $this->renderText(var_dump($request->getParameter('pv'))); //this array include vars from form
//return $this->renderText(var_dump($request->getFiles('pv'))); //empty array
}

Answer 1

You should provide the actual code you are trying with. You could also look further into the forms component, which has a section on file uploads with example code here (bottom of page):

http://www.symfony-project.org/forms/1_2/en/02-Form-Validation

This part of the docs is still relevant for symfony 1.4.