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Hey,

I'm trying to grab a file from a form but it keeps telling me that its an undefined index:

$filename = $_FILES['newfile']['name'];

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E_NOTICE - Undefined index: newfile

I know it's probably just a placement error or something but i'm not sure??

That's just a notice.. If you use the error control operator won't you do what you want?

Sth like this:

$filename = @$_FILES['newfile']['name'];

I guess that won't help, undefined index means that value does not exist.

Perhaps you are submitting a form with an empty file-element ? Often browsers do not send form-fields without a value...

What do you mean by an empty file-element??? This is what i have:

			if ( !empty($newfile) ) {
  	  
			$filename = $_FILES['newfile']['name'];
			$ext = strrchr( $filename, '.' );
			$file = $str . $ext;
  	  		$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($file);
  	  		$filesize = $_FILES['newfile']['size'] / 1024;
			$filesize = round($filesize, 1);
			$newfilen = $file;
			//move_uploaded_file($_FILES['newfile']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)
			
			}

and this is my form

<tr>
  									<td class="fieldtitle">New File</td>
  									<td><input type="file" name="newfile" /><p>Use this to replace an existing file.  Just leave blank to keep the same file.</p></td>
  								</tr>
  								<tr>

I guess files just aren't parsed as "files" in PHP, probably because you don't use enctype="multipart/form-data".

Well the weird thing is i'm using basically the same thing in another area and that works fine. Naw, i do have the enctype type set.

My first thought was you might have a problem if no file is selected in the file-chooser. I had this problem with a not-checked checkbox. The browser doesn't send it with a zero-value, it doesn't send it at all. So checking for the filename could be a problem because it may not be empty but not set at all.

But now I vote for the encoding type, too