Uploading multiple files and processing them

[wilcochris]

Hi all,

Just after some advice really. This is my first time posting on here, so please forgive me if my post isn't up to the required standard.

I have a form for emailing someone and it also allows the option to add file attachments. I have it working so that it will move a single file and email it and add the details to the database.

When I try with multiple files, it will only ever process the last file in the array.

This is what I have in the form

<input type="file" name="attachment[]" id="attachment" multiple/>

This is what I have in the PHP code for processing the file

if(is_array($fdata['name']))
{
    for($i = 0; $i < count($fdata['name']); ++$i)
    {
        $name_of_file = $_FILES['attachment']['name'][$i];
        $file_name = $guid."-".$name_of_file;
        $temp_name = $_FILES['attachment']['tmp_name'][$i];
        $file_type = $_FILES['attachment']['type'][$i];
        $file_size = $_FILES['attachment']['size'][$i];
    }
}
else $files[] = $fdata;
 

This will process only the last file.

If I put the following in the for loop, it will move the files as requested, but will not allow any other processing on it

$pics = array(".bmp", ".gif", ".jpg", "jpeg", ".png"); //5
$docs = array(".doc", "docx", ".odt", ".pdf", ".ppt", "pptx", ".rtf", ".txt", ".xls", "xlsx"); //10
$misc = array(".csv", ".htm", "html", ".php", ".pkt", ".rar", ".sql", ".xpi", ".zip"); //9
 
$base = basename($file_name);
$extension = substr($base, strlen($base)-4, strlen($base));
$extension = strtolower($extension);
 
if (in_array($extension,$pics))
{
    $target = "".FILES."/".FUP_PICS."/";
}
 
if (in_array($extension,$docs))
{
    $target = "".FILES."/".FUP_DOCS."/";
}
 
if (in_array($extension,$misc))
{
    $target = "".FILES."/".FUP_MISC."/";
}
 
$target = $target.$base;
 
$allowed_extensions = array(".bmp", ".csv", ".doc", "docx", ".gif", ".htm", "html", ".jpg", ".JPG", "jpeg", "JPEG", ".odt", ".pdf", ".php", ".pkt", ".png", ".ppt", "pptx",    ".rtf", ".sql", ".txt", ".xls", "xlsx", ".zip");
 
 

This will then not allow me to access the variables outside the loop so I can further process it (email the file, add the details to the database0.

If I wrap it all in the for loop then it will only process the last file in the array.

I am somewhat stuck on the issue now.

I have tried a foreach loop, but it won't get the value of the variable in the file array to use for processing.

I will attach my file so you can see what I have there as it is around 800 lines long.

I'm looking for some pointers as to where I may be going wrong.

Thanks in advance