File uploading mixed with form input

[furby]

I've been browsing around the web for an answer to this and I can't
find a good answer to it.... here's the problem:

I am using an ASP include file called "ClsUpload.asp" to upload a text
file for processing. I also have a select drop down that i am
submitting along with the file, in order to determine where in the
database this info goes. My problem is that I can upload the file
without any problems, but I can't get at the select field at all. I
first tried using the normal "Request("Listid")" function, but that
didn't work (At first I was using it after the file upload and it gave
me an error message. Then I moved it to before the upload and it
doesn't give me an error anymore, but also doesn't seem to see
anything).

Then I tried request.form("listid"), which some of the discussions on
the web point to. The code still sees nothing at all being submitted. I
tried it both before and after the file upload....

I don't see any info on doing something like this within the
clsupload.asp file, so I'm thinking that the problem is stemming from
my use of the enctype="multipart/form-data" tag.

How can I do this? I suppose that if worst comes to worst, i can just
break the form up accross two pages and use it like that, but that
seems kind of ugly. Is there a simple way around this?

[Justin Piper]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:03:48 -0500, furby <Wo*******@gmail.comwrote:

I am using an ASP include file called "ClsUpload.asp" to upload a text
file for processing. I also have a select drop down that i am
submitting along with the file, in order to determine where in the
database this info goes. My problem is that I can upload the file
without any problems, but I can't get at the select field at all.

These classes (and also their COM counterparts) work by manually
processing the form data submitted by the browser, which renders the
Request.Form collection inoperable. Normally they expose their own Form
collection so that this data is still available. If your upload utility
doesn't have such functionality, you might consider using the one from
http://www.freeaspupload.net/ instead.

--
Justin Piper
Bizco Technologies
http://www.bizco.com/

[Tim Slattery]

"furby" <Wo*******@gmail.comwrote:

>I've been browsing around the web for an answer to this and I can't
find a good answer to it.... here's the problem:

I am using an ASP include file called "ClsUpload.asp" to upload a text
file for processing. I also have a select drop down that i am
submitting along with the file, in order to determine where in the
database this info goes. My problem is that I can upload the file
without any problems, but I can't get at the select field at all. I
first tried using the normal "Request("Listid")" function, but that
didn't work (At first I was using it after the file upload and it gave
me an error message. Then I moved it to before the upload and it
doesn't give me an error anymore, but also doesn't seem to see
anything).

Then I tried request.form("listid"), which some of the discussions on
the web point to. The code still sees nothing at all being submitted. I
tried it both before and after the file upload....

I don't see any info on doing something like this within the
clsupload.asp file, so I'm thinking that the problem is stemming from
my use of the enctype="multipart/form-data" tag.

Basically, yes. The 'enctype="multipart/form-data"' tag causes the
contents of the form - including any files specified by <input
type="file"....tags as well as more normal tags - to be transmitted
in MIME format. All the data is there, and if the component you're
using to untangle the MIME blob isn't giving you the contents of the
"normal" tags, then it's not doing its job. I'm sure you can find
something that will work properly.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Sl********@bls.gov

[furby]

Freeaspupload.asp works like a charm - thanks. Now, for the next
question and it relates directly to that particular class.

How do I retrieve the name of the uploaded file? I see a second class
named "UploadedFile" but there is no documentation for it. The
documentation refers to the filename property of the main object, but
that doesn't work...

Justin Piper wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:03:48 -0500, furby <Wo*******@gmail.comwrote:

I am using an ASP include file called "ClsUpload.asp" to upload a text
file for processing. I also have a select drop down that i am
submitting along with the file, in order to determine where in the
database this info goes. My problem is that I can upload the file
without any problems, but I can't get at the select field at all.

These classes (and also their COM counterparts) work by manually
processing the form data submitted by the browser, which renders the
Request.Form collection inoperable. Normally they expose their own Form
collection so that this data is still available. If your upload utility
doesn't have such functionality, you might consider using the one from
http://www.freeaspupload.net/ instead.

--
Justin Piper
Bizco Technologies
http://www.bizco.com/

[Justin Piper]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:14:16 -0500, furby <Wo*******@gmail.comwrote:

Freeaspupload.asp works like a charm - thanks. Now, for the next
question and it relates directly to that particular class.

How do I retrieve the name of the uploaded file? I see a second class
named "UploadedFile" but there is no documentation for it. The
documentation refers to the filename property of the main object, but
that doesn't work...

There's an UploadedFiles property that exposes a Scripting.Dictionary
object with information about all the files uploaded. Something like
this should do the trick:

Dim upload, file
Set upload = New FreeASPUpload
For Each file In upload.UploadedFiles.Items()
Response.Write file.FileName & "<br>" ' or whatever you like
Next

--
Justin Piper
Bizco Technologies
http://www.bizco.com/

[furby]

Excellent! Thank you very much - works like a chamr!

Justin Piper wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:14:16 -0500, furby <Wo*******@gmail.comwrote:

Freeaspupload.asp works like a charm - thanks. Now, for the next
question and it relates directly to that particular class.

How do I retrieve the name of the uploaded file? I see a second class
named "UploadedFile" but there is no documentation for it. The
documentation refers to the filename property of the main object, but
that doesn't work...

There's an UploadedFiles property that exposes a Scripting.Dictionary
object with information about all the files uploaded. Something like
this should do the trick:

Dim upload, file
Set upload = New FreeASPUpload
For Each file In upload.UploadedFiles.Items()
Response.Write file.FileName & "<br>" ' or whatever you like
Next

--
Justin Piper
Bizco Technologies
http://www.bizco.com/