please help...

I have a form that contains a file upload field. Certain fields in the form must be filled in and so the form is validated. All this is in place and works. However, if the validation fails and the form has to be re-submitted I lose the information placed in the $_FILES['upload'] array - presumably because the file upload field on this submission was empty and the array was set to NULL.

I have had no success in automatically filling the file upload field with a previously submitted $_FILES['upload']['name'].

The form can be found at this address if you want a look:

http://braders.net/plop.php

Any help GREATLY appreciated.

Cheers, John

for security reasons, you can't automatically refill a input type="file" field. Also, if the file isn't moved, it will be destroyed as soon as the page script ends first time around with the fail. You could move it to your own temp directory, and peridically flush this directory for unused files....

thanks alot weBBworks - will try something else

I suggest using Javascript as the FRIST measure to check the fields. So if somthings wrong you can keep the value in the file field.

Be sure to still check the fields in the php script, but this will help with regular users. (If you are using it for that purpose)