upload multiple files at once

Hi,

Is it possible to upload a bunch of files at once to the server with a php
script ? The user should be able to select multiple files and not one by
one... All the scripts I found up till now can upload multiple files but
only by selecting them one by one in different boxes.

Thanks in advance,

Tom

> Is it possible to upload a bunch of files at once to the server with a php
> script ? The user should be able to select multiple files and not one by
> one... All the scripts I found up till now can upload multiple files but
> only by selecting them one by one in different boxes.

It's not a PHP problem, but client-side HTML problem. HTML does not allow
multiple file upload (one <input type="file" ... /> is one uploaded file).
Some portals use ActiveX controls to solve those problems.

Hilarion

Thanks for your reply.
What is the easiest way to solve this problem ? Write a java applet ?

Tom

"Hilarion" <hilarion@SPAM.op.SMIECI.pl> wrote in message
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php 
>
> It's not a PHP problem, but client-side HTML problem. HTML does not allow
> multiple file upload (one <input type="file" ... /> is one uploaded file).
> Some portals use ActiveX controls to solve those problems.
>
> Hilarion
>
>

> That does not mean you can't make a php script with multiple file uploads ,each chosen by
 the user
>
> Here is the input tag:
> <input type="file" name="images+3">
>
> each tag has a different name, the names of the files which are chosen end up in t
he $_FILES array.

Look at the text:

"The user should be able to select multiple files and not one by one..."

Your solution allows uploading of multiple files, but user has to select the
m
one by one.
Yes, it allows uploading more than one file, but each one requires one
<input type="file" ... /> tag, so 4 files is 4 inputs etc.

Hilarion

"Big Frank" <francois@duffortENLEVE.org> wrote:


>
> Alternatively, why not provide a list of, say, 10 input fields allowing yo
u
> to select up to 10 files and then you have one 'UPLOAD!' button.


And use "name[]" as the fieldname then those files come into an array
which makes it easier to process.

hth

mgk
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