Upload Multiple Image in PHP

November 23, 2018 | Created By : Manjeet Verma
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A code snippet for multiple image upload in php, this code will allow you to upload multiple images in php and you can change it to upload file other then images.

Code for multiple file selection

file_multiple.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <body>
        <form name="form" action="upload_multiple.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
        <input type="file" name="U_FILES[]" multiple="" >
            <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Code for uploading multiple images

upload.php

<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
    // image mime to be checked 
    $imagetype = array(image_type_to_mime_type(IMAGETYPE_GIF), image_type_to_mime_type(IMAGETYPE_JPEG),
        image_type_to_mime_type(IMAGETYPE_PNG), image_type_to_mime_type(IMAGETYPE_BMP));
 
    $FOLDER = "uploads/";
    $myfile = $_FILES["U_FILES"];
    $keepName = false; // change this for file name.
    $response = array();
    for ($i = 0; $i < count($myfile["name"]); $i++) {
        if ($myfile["name"][$i] <> "" && $myfile["error"][$i] == 0) {
            // file is ok
            if (in_array($myfile["type"][$i], $imagetype)) {
                //Set file name
                if($keepName) {
                    $file_name =  $myfile["name"][$i];
                } else {
                    // get extention and set unique name
                    $file_extention = @strtolower(@end(@explode(".", $myfile["name"][$i])));
                    $file_name = date("Ymd") . '_' . rand(10000, 990000) . '.' . $file_extention;
                }
                if (move_uploaded_file($myfile["tmp_name"][$i], $FOLDER . $file_name) === FALSE) {
                    //Set Original File Name if Upload Error
                    $response[] = array ('error'=>true,'msg'=>"Error While Uploading the File",'fileName'=>$myfile["name"][$i]);
                } else {
                    // Set Name Used to Store file on Server
                    $response[] = array ('error'=>false,'msg'=>"File Uploaded",'fileName'=>$file_name);
                }
            } else {
                //Set Original File Name if Invalid Image Type
                $response[] = array ('error'=>true,'msg'=>" Invalid Image Type.",'fileName'=>$myfile["name"][$i]);
            }
        }
    }
    echo json_encode($response);
}
?>

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