$_FILES empty after postman upload

Question

I am using plain php to uplaod a file. If i try testing it with postman the FILE array is empty. I know there are a lot of similar questions out there, but I they all have either a different setup, or have some simple mistakes, but I am pretty sure I checked all common errors like php.ini values and such. Here is my Php code and the postman request:

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value)
{
    echo($key . ": " . $value);
}
foreach ($_FILES as $key => $value)
{
    echo($key . ": " . $value);
}
echo(count($_FILES));

Here are the values of my php.ini

file_uploads = on
upload_max_filesize = 2000M
post_max_size = 2000M

Does anybody have an idea what else I could be doing wrong?

Does this answer your question? [How to send multipart/form-data request using Postman](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16015548/how-to-send-multipart-form-data-request-using-postman) — billyonecan, Sep 23 '22 at 12:50
To those who wrote something about the form, read the question. Regarding the content type, it is already set to "multipart/form-data; boundary=" — Tobias, Sep 23 '22 at 12:56
@Anant-Alivetodie that actually gives me the correct output. — Tobias, Sep 23 '22 at 13:08
I think I got it. You can't echo the content of $_FILE becuase they are not a String, so it caused an error and stopped the `echo count($_FILES)`. I think the error display is set to false which is why there was no hint whats wrong. — Tobias, Sep 23 '22 at 13:11

Alive to die - Anant · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-23T13:12:02.107

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The main issue is $_FILES here will give you single dimensional array because you are using a single file upload, so foreach ($_FILES as $key => $value) will not work.

To make it work you need to send multiple files and for that, you need to make key like barcode[]

edited Sep 23 '22 at 13:12

answered Sep 23 '22 at 12:50

Alive to die - Anant

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