Title: WordPress PHP Form Code Error
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress PHP Form Code Error

 *  [taiki_d](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taiki_d/)
 * (@taiki_d)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-form-code-error/)
 * Hi all,
    I’m looking for a bit of help. I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to 
   php and I’ve put together the following code. What I’m trying to do is give the
   subscriber 3 dropdowns, and I then want to use those three dropdowns as well 
   as their Surname as found in their user info to rename a file they are uploading.
   This is what I have so far, but I keep getting errors saying that wp_get_current_user
   is a call to an undefined function etc… Can anyone pls help?
 *     ```
       <?php
       require_once('/wp-includes/pluggable.php');
       global $current_user;
       $current_user = wp_get_current_user();
       $current_user->user_lastname;
        $submittedValue = "";
        $submittedValue1 = "";
        $submittedValue2 = "";
               $value0 = "";
               $value1 = "FMOT";
               $value2 = "FMBM";
               $value3 = "FMCC";
       		$value4 = "FMHS";
       		$value5 = "FMSP";
       		$value6 = "FMFin";
       		$value7 = "FMSS";
       		$value8 = "Assignment";
       		$value9 = "Assignment Attachment";
       		$value10 = "Logbook";
       		$value11 = "Logbook Attachment";
       		$value12 = "1";
       		$value13 = "2";
       		$date = date('Y m d H i s');
       	if (isset($_POST["Subject"])) {
                   $submittedValue = $_POST["Subject"];
               }
       	if (isset($_POST["DocType"])) {
                   $submittedValue = $_POST["DocType"];
               }
       	if (isset($_POST["AssNo"])) {
                   $submittedValue = $_POST["AssNo"];
               }
       // Your file name you are uploading
       $file_name = $HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['name'];
   
       // random 4 digit to add to our file name
       // some people use date and time in stead of random digit
       $random_digit=rand(0000,9999);
   
       //combine random digit to you file name to create new file name
       //use dot (.) to combile these two variables
   
       $new_file_name= $user_lastname.$submittedValue.$submittedValue1.$submittedValue2.$date.$file_name;
   
       //set where you want to store files
       //in this example we keep file in folder upload
       //$new_file_name = new upload file name
       //for example upload file name cartoon.gif . $path will be upload/cartoon.gif
       $path= "wp-content/uploads/assignment/".$new_file_name;
       if($ufile !=none)
       {
       if(copy($HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['tmp_name'], $path))
       {
       echo "Successful"; 
   
       //$new_file_name = new file name
       //$HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['size'] = file size
       //$HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['type'] = type of file
       echo "File Name :".$new_file_name."";
       echo "File Size :".$HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['size']."";
       echo "File Type :".$HTTP_POST_FILES['ufile']['type']."";
       }
       else
       {
       echo "Error";
       }
       }
       ?>
       ```
   
 * My Form Code:
 *     ```
       <form action="getfile.php" name="a4fm" method="post">
               <select project="Subject" id="Subject" name="Subject">
                <option value = "<?php echo $value0; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value0; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value1; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value1; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value2; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value2; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value3; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
       		 <option value = "<?php echo $value4; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
       		 <option value = "<?php echo $value5; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
       		 <option value = "<?php echo $value6; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
       		 <option value = "<?php echo $value7; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
               </select>
       		<select project="DocType" id="DocType" name="DocType">
                <option value = "<?php echo $value0; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value0; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value8; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value1; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value9; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value2; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value10; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
       		 <option value = "<?php echo $value11; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value3; ?></option>
               </select>
       		<select project="AssNo" id="AssNo" name="AssNo">
                <option value = "<?php echo $value0; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value0; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value12; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value1; ?></option>
                <option value = "<?php echo $value13; ?>"<?php echo ($value0 == $submittedValue)?" SELECTED":""?>><?php echo $value2; ?></option>
               </select>
               Type (or select) Filename: <input type="file" name="uploadFile">
       		<input type="submit" value="Upload File">
               </form>
       ```
   

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-php-form-code-error/#post-4605192)
 * Submitting forms directly to custom PHP files that need to use WP functions will
   rarely work well. There are 3 ways I know of that will work. They work equally
   well from a plugin or child theme, which is the proper place for custom files.
   The installation root is not a good place.
    1. Submit to a page post_type with a custom template that handles the form submit.(
       not the best choice for a plugin but it’s possible)
    2. Use AJAX to submit the form data where a custom action callback handles the 
       form submit.
    3. Similar to AJAX but without javascript, submit to wp-admin/admin-post.php where
       a custom action callback handles the form submit.

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