Insert the form values from an array into a database - php

Question

I have created a form that allows a user to upload multiple files to a directory. Now I am trying to grab the names of the files from the form input fields and store them into a database.
I am trying to get the array values of the input fields ie; the ['file']['name'] and the ['file']['tmp_name'] and insert them into a database. With the below code I have only managed to get the word "array" to be inserted into the database and not the actual names of the files themselves.
I think I need to loop through the array using a foreach loop but I am uncertain as to how to go about writing it and where to insert it into my code. Below is the code so far:
#connect to the database
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");
mysql_select_db("masscic");
//Upload Handler to check image types
function is_image($file) {
$file_types = array('jpeg', 'gif', 'bmp'); //acceptable file types
if ($img = getimagesize($file)){
//echo '<pre>';
//print_r($_FILES); //will return an array of information for testing
//print_r($img); //will return an array of information for testing
if(in_array(str_replace('image/', '', $img['mime']), $file_types))
return $img;
}
return false;
}
//form submission handling
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
//file variables
$fname = $_FILES['files']['name'];
$ftype = $_FILES['files']['type'];
$fsize = $_FILES['files']['size'];
$tname = $_FILES['files']['tmp_name'];
$ferror = $_FILES['files']['error'];
$newDir = '../uploads/'; //relative to where this script file resides
for ($i = count($fname) -1; $i >=0; $i--) {
if ($ferror[$i] =='UPLOAD ERR OK' || $ferror[$i] ==0)
{
if(is_image($tname[$i]))
{
move_uploaded_file($tname[$i], ($newDir.time().$fname[$i]));
echo '<li><span class="success">'.$fname[$i].' -- image has been accepted<br></span></li>';
}else
echo '<li><span class="error">'.$fname[$i].' -- is not an accepted file type<br></span></li>';
}
}
}
$sqlInsert = mysql_query("INSERT INTO files (file_names) VALUES('$fname')") or die (mysql_error());
Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

When uploading multiple files (with the same field name) another dimension is added to the array. Say I upload a.html and b.html, I'll get:
$_FILES['files']['name'][0]; // a.html
$_FILES['files']['name'][1]; // b.html
$_FILES['files']['size'][0]; // size of a.html
$_FILES['files']['size'][1]; // size of b.html
To iterate through:
for(var $i = 0; $i < count($_FILES['files']['name']); $i++) {
echo 'File name ' . $_FILES['files']['name'][$i] . ' has size ' . $_FILES['files']['size'][$i];
}
This is explained at http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php