Converting Array in PHP ($_FILES)

Question

I would like to handle the multiple file uploads $_FILES in an array like this

foreach ($_FILES as $file) {
 // do stuff...
 // $file['name'] and as such
}

However the array seems something like this

Array ( 
 [name] => Array ( 
 [0] => 2010年10月04日_205047.jpg 
 [1] => 
 [2] => 
 ) 
 [type] => Array (
 [0] => image/jpeg 
 [1] => 
 [2] => 
 ) 
 [tmp_name] => Array ( 
 [0] => E:\localhost\tmp\php118.tmp 
 [1] => 
 [2] => 
 ) 
 [error] => Array ( 
 [0] => 0 
 [1] => 4 
 [2] => 4 
 ) 
 [size] => Array ( 
 [0] => 92127 
 [1] => 0 
 [2] => 0 
 ) 
) 

How should I make it into the array of the format that I want ?

Thanks

• Danijel: Here is an example of how to do it that I wrote to similar question.

Answer 1

This is kludgey, but

$_MYFILES = array();
foreach(array_keys($_FILES['name']) as $i) { // loop over 0,1,2,3 etc...
 foreach(array_keys($_FILES) as $j) { // loop over 'name', 'size', 'error', etc...
 $_MYFILES[$i][$j] = $_FILES[$j][$i]; // "swap" keys and copy over original array values
 }
}

• Atif: I think creating keys manually will take less resources compared to using array_keys since its always the same ?
• Marc B: True, but this is PHP... no guarantees that a key won't be renamed, or new ones added, etc... later on. Not likely, but not impossible. The inner array_keys call could be done once and cached in a var before the first foreach loop, though.
• Atif: I completely agree to it .. Thanks Marc

Answer 2

why don't you want to declare new array var and to fill it in desirable format? eg

$myarr = array();
foreach ($_FILES as $file) {
 $myarr[] = array($file['name'][0], $file['type'][0], $file['tmp_name'][0], $file['size'][0]);
}

• Marc B: should be 'tmp_name', not 'temp_name' (isn't PHP's consistent naming convention a wonderful thing? :p)
• Grimbot: @heximal In all seriousness I think you've misunderstood the problem.

Answer 3

this worked for me

$files = array();
for($i =0;$_FILES['name'][$i] != NULL;$i++){
 $files[] = array($_FILES['name'][$i], $_FILES['type'][$i], $_FILES['tmp_name'][$i], $_FILES['size'][$i]);
 }

Answer 4

foreach ($_FILES['photo']['name'] as $key => $value){
 $photo[$key]['name'] = $value;
}
foreach ($_FILES['photo']['type'] as $key => $value) {
 $photo[$key]['type'] = $value;
}
foreach ($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'] as $key => $value) {
 $photo[$key]['tmp_name'] = $value;
}
foreach ($_FILES['photo']['error'] as $key => $value) {
 $photo[$key]['error'] = $value;
}
foreach ($_FILES['photo']['size'] as $key => $value) {
 $photo[$key]['size'] = $value;
}
if ($photo[0]['error'] == 4)
 $photo = [];
echo '<pre>';
print_r($photo);
echo '</pre>';