$_FILES is empty

[hounw]

I'm posting this for all the newbies out there who like me stumble upon empty $_FILES when trying to upload files...

So turns out that you NEED to have enctype="multipart/form-data" as a form attribute so that the upload will actually take place,

<form class="form-inline" id="depositForm" action="{{ apideposit | alias}}" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<label for="proofimg">Adjuntar Comprobante</label>

<input type="hidden" name="chargeid" value="{{@charge['chargeid']}}">

<input type="hidden" name="reroute" value="{{@reroute}}">

<input type="file" name="deposit" required />

<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary mt-2 ml-auto" id="depositButton">Enviar</button>

</form>

If you don't do this the files will not upload and you will get an empty $_FILES var...

took me about 5 hours to figure this out... you hardly code from scratch these days haha.

[ved]

This has always been the case. At least as far back as I can remember.

Here is the description on HTML v4 specification.

And here are the appropriate RFC's:

RFC1867 (1995)

RFC2388 (1998)

RFC7578 (2015)

Still, good tip. I get that it's something that gets overlooked quite often.