Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!border1.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams2.giganews.com!border4.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!usenetcore.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:40:46 +0100 From: Luuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: form - file - sumple question References: <4f08514c$0$5038$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:980:9089:1:216:76ff:fee1:aa6c X-Trace: 1325947501 news.xs4all.nl 6856 [2001:980:9089:1:216:76ff:fee1:aa6c]:60672 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.php:4254 On 07-01-2012 15:09, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 1/7/2012 9:06 AM, Leo Decap wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a form which users can fill in. >> If the user hasn't filled in a required field, the form reloads after >> the Submit with all the data the user has entered filled in (and the >> opportunity to fill in the missing data). >> I get the data through $_POST and echo the allready filled in data on >> the form. Easy. >> >> I have 1 field - type File - where the user can choose a photo to upload. >> On reload of the form, I would love to see the entered data (path?) >> reappear, but I can't figure out how to do this.......... >> >> Any help here would be appreciated. >> >> Leo > > You can't do it. For security reasons, HTTP will now allow FILE fields > to be filled in. > I suggest you (Leo) to take a look at JavaScript, to do simple checks if a field is filled in or not. For the complicated checks, you might still want to use some PHP stuff afterwards.... -- Luuk