Your script should have a line of the type:

$uploadedFiles = $_FILES["file"];

where the name “file” must be the string used in formData.append(‘file[]‘, files[i]).

(Careful not to mix up the singular with the plural – poor choice of similar variable names!)

4. All left to do in your script is the same as if you were doing a “regular” multiple file upload, i.e. the kind you would do with .

Essentially, looping over the arrays inside the variable $uploadedFiles , and moving the uploaded files from your server’s temporary folder to your desired destination – for example by means of the PHP function move_uploaded_file

Julian says
January 19, 2013 at 10:00 am #
Oops, in my line 4, above, I meant to say:
the kind you would do with &ltINPUT type=’file’ name=’file[]‘>

Julian says
January 19, 2013 at 10:08 am #
Here is the function I use for the multiple uploads. You invoke it as:
uploadMultipleFiles($uploadedFiles , “full_destination_path/”):



function uploadMultipleFiles($upload_fileset_info, $dest_dir, $verbose = false)

/*      Attempt to upload multiple files to the specified destination directory (which should end with a "/").  The file names are not altered.

 */

{

        $number_successful_uploads = 0;

// Loop over the "error" array, and extract the corresponding info (with the same index offset) in the other 4 arrays
foreach ($upload_fileset_info["error"] as $index => $status_code) {
$name = $upload_fileset_info["name"][$index];
if ($name == "") {
continue;	 // If no upload file was given, skip to the next entry
}

$type = $upload_fileset_info["type"][$index];
$tmp_name = $upload_fileset_info["tmp_name"][$index];
$size = $upload_fileset_info["size"][$index];

if ($status_code == UPLOAD_ERR_OK) {	// If upload was successful

$dest_filename = $name;

$dest_full_path = $dest_dir . $dest_filename;

// Move the temporary upload file to its desired destination on the server
move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "$dest_full_path") or die("ERROR: Couldn't copy the file to the desired destination.");

$number_successful_uploads += 1;
}
else {	 // If upload didn't succeed, spell out the nature of the problem
echo "Upload FAILED";
}
}

return $number_successful_uploads;
}
Corey says
February 8, 2013 at 11:40 pm #
Julian
Thank you for your extra code provided, it’s exactly what I needed as someone who doesn’t know much about php and especially file uploads.

I was struggling with getting your code to work though, and I finally got it to work by changing:
move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, "$dest_full_path") 
to
move_uploaded_file($tmp_name, $dest_full_path)
Honestly not sure if this is how you are supposed to do it, but it works for me.