Multiple file upload in php

Question

I want to upload multiple files and store them in a folder and get the path and store it in the database... Any good example you looked for doing multiple file upload...

Answer 1

This is what worked for me. I had to upload files, store filenames and I had additional inof from input fields to store as well and one record per multiple file names. I used serialize() then added that to the main sql query.

  class addReminder extends dbconn {
    public function addNewReminder(){

           $this->exdate = $_POST['exdate'];
           $this->name = $_POST['name'];
           $this->category = $_POST['category'];
           $this->location = $_POST['location'];
           $this->notes = $_POST['notes'];



           try {

                     if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
                       $total = count($_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name']);
                       for($i=0;$i<$total;$i++){
                         $fileName = $_FILES['fileUpload']['name'][$i];
                         $ext = pathinfo($fileName, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
                         $newFileName = md5(uniqid());
                         $fileDest = 'filesUploaded/'.$newFileName.'.'.$ext;
                         $justFileName = $newFileName.'.'.$ext;
                         if($ext === 'pdf' || 'jpeg' || 'JPG'){
                             move_uploaded_file($_FILES['fileUpload']['tmp_name'][$i], $fileDest);
                             $this->fileName = array($justFileName);
                             $this->encodedFileNames = serialize($this->fileName);
                             var_dump($this->encodedFileNames);
                         }else{
                           echo $fileName . ' Could not be uploaded. Pdfs and jpegs only please';
                         }
                       }

                    $sql = "INSERT INTO reminders (exdate, name, category, location, fileUpload, notes) VALUES (:exdate,:name,:category,:location,:fileName,:notes)";
                    $stmt = $this->connect()->prepare($sql);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':exdate', $this->exdate);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':name', $this->name);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':category', $this->category);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':location', $this->location);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':fileName', $this->encodedFileNames);
                    $stmt->bindParam(':notes', $this->notes);
                    $stmt->execute();
                  }

           }catch(PDOException $e){
             echo $e->getMessage();
           }
      }
    }