How to populate multipart form/data fields

[kolakube]

Hiya all

Just started PHP, Im having problems populating a field from the data base, here goes

<input name="PHOTOONE" type="file" size="35" VALUE="<?php print "$row[PHOTOONE]"; ?>">

when i try and preview this I get nothing on the field, if i had it on [b]type ="text"[/b] this works, but I want to create an edit page so I can populate the field with the existing field name, so if i do not want to update the info it will just post the old data field.

Maybe Im missing something..

Many thanks

[lead2gold]

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Hiya all

Just started PHP, Im having problems populating a field from the data base, here goes

<input name="PHOTOONE" type="file" size="35" VALUE="<?php print "$row[PHOTOONE]"; ?>">

when i try and preview this I get nothing on the field, if i had it on [b]type ="text"[/b] this works, but I want to create an edit page so I can populate the field with the existing field name, so if i do not want to update the info it will just post the old data field.

Maybe Im missing something..

Many thanks
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i don't think it's possible to populate type file boxes... the best thing to do in that situation is display the contents above the empty box (if any is present) and when they attempt to upload yet another file, then replace the old data on the submit.

[kolakube]

Thx for the quick response Gold, I had thought about that, but when I see scripts like 4imagegallery edit page I was think maybe there may be an easy way round this.

as again thx for the reply :-)