$_FILES empty when trying to do a file upload

Question

This is driving me crazy. I\'m trying to figure out how to upload a file. I\'ve got two very simple files, yet it doesn\'t seem to work. This first is the file that allow

Answer 1

Add that in Form tag

enctype="multipart/form-data"

Answer 2

You shuold use attribute enctype="multipart/form-data" in form tag.

Answer 3

Add the proper enctype attribute to your form tag:

<form action="getfile.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

It's documented here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.post-method.php

Also, make sure there's no space between your brackets when you access multi-dimensional arrays:

$_FILES['uploadFile']['tmp_name']