form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploadfiles.php" method="POST">
<table width="350" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="box">
<tr>
<td width="246">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="2000000">

<input name="userfile" type="file" id="userfile">
</td>

Case Name: <input type="text" name="cname" action="insertintotable.php" /> <br/>
Author of Case: <input type="text" name="author" action="insertintotable.php" /> <br/>
Business: <input type="text" name="business" action="insertintotable.php"/> <br/>

<td width="80"><input name="uplood" type="submit" class="box" id="uplood" value=" Upload "></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

here is my form, i need to put some sort of text field such as

Case Name: <input type="text" name="cname" action="insertintotable.php" /> <br/>

where "insertintotable.php" is my php code that inserts the info



so i want for both actions in "insertintotable.php" and "uploadfiles.php"
to occur by just clicking the submit button.

P.S. im very new to php so i understand i could be going about this the wrong way. if there is a better way to make a form and php code that enters both files and text into a mysql table. please let me know.

Well you can't place an actual file into a mysql table, although you can read the contents of the file and place that into it, or insert a link to the file into the database, have to decide which of those two you'd want to do first.

If you want to put the files contents into it I would use fread() or file_get_contents().

Take a look at http://w3schools.com/tags/tag_input.asp The INPUT tag does not have an ACTION attribute.

@antioch1st

As DlaManna said about placing a link is the more convention way, that will reduce burden on databases, instead of putting the whole file inside database. If you have a powerful database server, then you can use that until and unless the way u r approaching is not recommended.

And as coda said, there is no action attribute in input types.

What you can do is, put both logic of upload.php and insertintotable.php in a single page and then submit the form to that page(say insertupload.php) where you have both upload.php and insertintotable.php logic.

so final form should be like this

<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="insertupload.php">
<table width="350" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="box">
<tr>
<td width="246">
<input type="hidden" name="MAX_FILE_SIZE" value="2000000">

<input name="userfile" type="file" id="userfile">
</td>

Case Name: <input  type="text" name="cname" value="" /> <br/>
Author of Case: <input type="text" name="author" value="" /> <br/>
Business: <input type="text" name="business" value=""/> <br/>

<td width="80"><input name="uplood" type="submit" class="box" id="uplood" value=" Upload "></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

well my colleagues have said enough just by way of emphasis a text box does not have an action attribute. and also to place a file in a database can be best done by inserting the souce/directory of the file into the database. you can also include a textarea into your form.copy and paste the content of your text file into the text area. this content will be available to the action script in the $_POST or $_GET super global variable when the form is submitted. content will be place into the database by using the INSERT sql query in your action script .

thanks guys, that worked well