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I've made a form. Now I want it to upload files. I've made a form element to do that:

  $form['attachments'] = array(
    '#type' => 'file',
    '#title' => t('Attachments'),
    '#name' => 'attachments[]',
    '#attributes' => array('multiple' => ''),
  );

I've set #name and #attributes.multiple because I want to use the HTML5 multiple files upload thingie. They invented that for a very good reason. I assume Drupal knows how to handle that.

How do I get the files in the submit handler? I don't want to save them to the file system. I want to e-mail them.

Ofcourse (?) I can just query $_FILES, but even I think that's not right in a framework like Drupal.

Is there a better way?

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I don't think [form api file element type][1] supports that as of now, there is a html5 core initiative for D8 and hopefully we will see it change in D8. For now, you can try [plupload element type][2] (Abandoned project :( ) which uses the plupload js library by default, maybe you can take your hint from this module. [1]: api.drupal.org/api/drupal/… [2]: drupal.org/project/plupload – Dipen Jan 16 '12 at 19:45

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I haven't tried HTML5 Upload yet, but it might help you out.

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That's only for managed files. And only in entity forms. Close enough though. And very relevant to my new project. – Rudie Jan 10 at 22:10

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