How to populate input type file value from database in PHP?

Question

I am writing the code for editing a form that contains an input file field. I am getting all the values pulled from database for different field types but the file type input do

Answer 1

you can give the value attribute to input file type

if you want to show the file content while updating form you can show it in separate tag

like:

here you should consider one thing

if the use is selected new file to upload you can update the column else the use not selected any thing just updated other content without file you should update the column name with old file name.

$file = $_FILES['file']['name'];


if($file!="") {

move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'],'/image/'.$file);

} else {

$file = $oldfile;

}