Articles tagged with "upload form"

So you've got a nice new version of Drupal 6 and you're building a form, but you want to allow users to upload a file. Of course this is easy with Drupal, and we covered how to do just that, but for Drupal 5, in our previous article: Example code to build an upload form in Drupal. Here we show how file uploads are done in Drupal 6.

Honestly, not much has changed, here's the code to get your file upload element onto your form:

function build_upload_form(){
    $form['#attributes'] = array('enctype' => 'multipart/form-data');
    $form['file_upload'] = array(
        '#type' => 'file',
        '#title'...

Putting together an upload form in Drupal 5 is easier than you think - there are just a couple of things you need to remember ...

The form is built like this:

function build_upload_form(){
    $form['#attributes'] = array('enctype' => "multipart/form-data");
    $form['file_upload']=array('#type'=>'file','#title'=>'Filename');
    $form['submit']=array('#type'=>'submit','#value'=>'Upload file');
    return $form;
}

And the submit is handled like so, note - the value passed into file_check_upload is the name (terminal array key) of the form element defined in your form building function ...

function upload_form_submit() {
    $file = file_check_upload('file_upload');
    //handle the file, using file_save_upload, or something similar
    if ($file){
    $file = file_save_upload($file,'some_path');
    }
}

And thats it...