[thelist] <input type="file" value attr?

Tarrant Costelloe taz at insur-e.net
Tue Nov 5 09:06:01 CST 2002


Thank you, this is very helpful ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Taranis [mailto:taranis at spittingllamas.com]
Sent: 05 November 2002 14:59
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: RE: [thelist] <input type="file" value attr?


Tarrant wrote:
>Hello, I have a file input type and I am looking for it to hold a value
of the location of the members current photo, for instance something
>like this.

><input type="file" name="photopath" value="<? echo $photo; ?>">

>However this does not want to work, so I am guessing it's cause the
file input type doesn't have a value attribute, any ideas?

As already mentioned, it's not possible to do this.

The solution I have used is to put the current image on the page and
print the filename below it, so that the user might be reminded what
they uploaded.

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Alex Ezell
http://www.spittingllamas.com



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