Adding a file description while uploading a file - php

Question

I've created a basic upload form and everything works fine to upload, but I'm unable to find a way to add the file description to the page. I'd like it to go here under "Description":
uploads page
HTML Form:
<form action="/scripts/upload.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Select a file to upload:
<input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload"><br />
<textarea id="FileDescription" name="FileDescription" rows="1" placeholder="*File description" required></textarea> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" name="submit">
Script:
<?php
$target_dir = "../uploads/";
$target_file = $target_dir . basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]);
$uploadOk = 1;
$df = disk_free_space("../uploads/");
if (isset($_POST["submit"])) {
$check = filesize($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"]);
}
// Check if file already exists
if (file_exists($target_file)) {
echo "Sorry, file already exists.";
$uploadOk = 0;
}
// Check file size
if ($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["size"] > $df) {
echo "Sorry, your file is too large.";
$uploadOk = 0;
}
// Check if $uploadOk is set to 0 by an error
if ($uploadOk == 0) {
echo "Sorry, your file was not uploaded.";
// if everything is ok, try to upload file
} else {
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["tmp_name"], $target_file)) {
echo "The file " . basename($_FILES["fileToUpload"]["name"]) . " has
been uploaded.";
} else {
echo "Sorry, there was an error uploading your file.";
}
}
?>

Answer 1

The <textarea> tag must be linked to the form.
Use it this way:
<form action="/scripts/upload.php" id="myForm" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Select a file to upload:
<input type="file" name="fileToUpload" id="fileToUpload"><br />
<textarea id="FileDescription" form="myForm" name="FileDescription" rows="1" placeholder="*File description" required></textarea> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Upload File" name="submit">
</form>
Only then, the content of the texarea is transferred. You can access the description then with $_POST["FileDescription"]. To use it as the Apache description, see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#adddescription