By mscdex on

I'm having a problem with FAPI in 5.1. I have a multistep form (6 steps) with redirect set to false (if that matters) and enctype set to multipart/form-data. On the third step I have several file upload fields. I notice that when I finally redirect on (only have #redirect = true for the final step) after my final step, my php code is not able to see the files that were selected for upload in the third step. Do I have to deal with the files in the following step (step 4) in order for me to have the files uploaded, or is there a way to persist the filenames to be uploaded so they will upload after the final step?

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Island Usurper’s picture

Island Usurper commented

I've been having problems with making fields persistent when they're more complex than a string, too. I was lucky in that I didn't need the complicated fields (a set of checkboxes) until the last step, so I'm able to process the form then. I just couldn't use the back buttons I made and come back to that step with the checkboxes already filled out the way I had them.

I guess this is really just a "Me, too" post.

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mscdex’s picture

mscdex commented

Well, all of my other fields persist just fine. However, the fields of '#type' => 'file' do not persist at all.

Island Usurper’s picture

Island Usurper commented

For most of the fields, I had to resort to putting hidden fields with the form data in them for subsequent steps. I haven't found a similar method for a set of checkboxes because it returns an array of values. I tried serializing that array, but maybe I should have used html_entities() too.

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