How to select multiple files with <input type="file">
?
New answer:
In HTML5 you can add the multiple
attribute to select more than 1 file.
<input type="file" name="filefield" multiple="multiple">
Old answer:
You can only select 1 file per
<input type="file" />
. If you want to send multiple files you will have to use multiple input tags or use Flash or Silverlight.
There is also HTML5 <input type="file" multiple />
(specification).
Browser support is quite good on desktop (just not supported by IE 9 and prior), less good on mobile, I guess because it's harder to implement correctly depending on the platform and version.
The whole thing should look like:
<form enctype='multipart/form-data' method='POST' action='submitFormTo.php'>
<input type='file' name='files[]' multiple />
<button type='submit'>Submit</button>
</form>
Make sure you have the enctype='multipart/form-data'
attribute in your <form>
tag, or you can't read the files on the server side after submission!
This jQuery plugin (jQuery File Upload Demo) does it without flash, in the form it's using:
<input type='file' name='files[]' multiple />
You can do it now with HTML5
In essence you use the multiple attribute on the file input.
<input type='file' multiple>
HTML5 has provided new attribute multiple for input element whose type attribute is file. So you can select multiple files and IE9 and previous versions does not support this.
NOTE: be carefull with the name of the input element. when you want to upload multiple file you should use array and not string as the value of the name attribute.
ex: input type="file" name="myPhotos[]" multiple="multiple"
and if you are using php then you will get the data in $_FILES and use var_dump($_FILES) and see output and do processing Now you can iterate over and do the rest
Thats easy ...
<input type='file' multiple>
$('#file').on('change',function(){
_readFileDataUrl(this,function(err,files){
if(err){return}
console.log(files)//contains base64 encoded string array holding the
image data
});
});
var _readFileDataUrl=function(input,callback){
var len=input.files.length,_files=[],res=[];
var readFile=function(filePos){
if(!filePos){
callback(false,res);
}else{
var reader=new FileReader();
reader.onload=function(e){
res.push(e.target.result);
readFile(_files.shift());
};
reader.readAsDataURL(filePos);
}
};
for(var x=0;x<len;x++){
_files.push(input.files[x]);
}
readFile(_files.shift());
};
Copy and paste this into your html:
<input type="file" id="files" name="files[]" multiple />
<output id="list"></output>
<script>
function handleFileSelect(evt) {
var files = evt.target.files; // FileList object
// files is a FileList of File objects. List some properties.
var output = [];
for (var i = 0, f; f = files[i]; i++) {
output.push('<li><strong>', escape(f.name), '</strong> (', f.type || 'n/a', ') - ',
f.size, ' bytes, last modified: ',
f.lastModifiedDate ? f.lastModifiedDate.toLocaleDateString() : 'n/a',
'</li>');
}
document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = '<ul>' + output.join('') + '</ul>';
}
This comes to you, through me, from this webpage: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<input type="file" multiple name="img[]"/>
<input type="submit">
</form>
<?php
print_r($_FILES['img']['name']);
?>
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