checkbox and file values in forms

I'm reasonably confident this is an html issue not a php issue, but I could be wrong. If it is an html problem, this is what it is:

When I send data from two forms, a text area and a series of checkboxes, to a new page, I can access the values of both through $_POST[] in php. I then submit the text area contents to each database that was selected in the check boxes.

When I try to do exactly the same thing with a form that selects and sends a file and a form that has series of checkboxes, the check boxes' values are never set. This is what works

<form action="811updateeng.php" method="POST"/>
<textarea name= "hwtext" rows="10" cols="50" wrap>
</textarea><br /><br />
<input type="submit" value"GO">

<form name="form1" method="post" action="811updateeng.php">
811 <input type="checkbox" name="811" value="checkbox">
813 <input type="checkbox" name="813" value="checkbox">
</form>

This is what doesn't work:

<form name="form2" method="POST" action="myupload.php">
811 <input type="checkbox" name="811" value="checkbox">
813 <input type="checkbox" name="813" value="checkbox">
</form>

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="myupload.php" method="post">
Send this file: <input name="userfile" type="file" />
<input type="submit" value="Send File" />
</form>

I've futzed around with this, but can't make it work. I'm figuring that the file type is somehow unsetting the value of my checkboxes??? I really have no idea, and appreciate any advice.

You can't get the selected file using $_POST[] superglobal. You got to have $_FILES[]... that could be the problem.

thanks

I guess I wasn't clear. I have no problem uploading and moving the file. The problem is that when I do, the value of the checkboxes is lost. This what I'm doing:



That all works fine. What I want to do is put the mysql_query inside an if a statement like so



what happens is that the post variable from the checkbox is never set. I am wondering if that problem is in some way related to the fact that I'm sending a file rather than the value of a text area, because I follow a method I use with a text area successfully.

a closing curly brace inside a comment was the problem all along. the form stuff works fine