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<?php

class FilesDeShitificator {
    /**
     * Restructures a control with multiple files from $_FILES to a more sane layout
     *
     * @param array $input
     * @return array
     */
    function restructureMultiFileDataArray($input) {
        $output = array();

        for ($i = 0; isset($input['tmp_name'][$i]); $i++) {
            $output[$i] = array(
                'error' => $input['error'][$i],
                'name' => $input['name'][$i],
                'type' => $input['type'][$i],
                'size' => $input['size'][$i],
                'tmp_name' => $input['tmp_name'][$i],
            );
        }

        return $output;
    }

    /**
     * Processes data from $_FILES and creates a saner array format
     *
     * @param array $input
     * @return array
     */
    function processFilesSuperglobal($input) {
        $output = array();

        foreach ($input as $controlName => $fileData) {
            if (!isset($fileData['tmp_name'], $fileData['error'])) {
                // input data not a valid $_FILES format array
                return false;
            }

            $output[$controlName] = is_array($fileData['tmp_name']) ? $this->restructureMultiFileDataArray($fileData) : array($fileData);
        }

        return $output;
    }
}

$processor = &new FilesDeShitificator;
$processedFiles = $processor->processFilesSuperglobal($_FILES);

/*
example usage of $processedFiles

foreach ($processedFiles as $controlName => $controlFiles) {
    foreach ($controlFiles as $file) {
        // process each file individually here
        // $file is now an array of the following format (taken from one of my test uploads):
        array(5) (
            ["name"]     => string(13) "xinput1_3.dll"
            ["type"]     => string(24) "application/x-msdownload"
            ["tmp_name"] => string(14) "/tmp/phpQvO1FC"
            ["error"]    => int(0)
            ["size"]     => int(81768)
        )
    }
}

*/
?>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Upload Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php if (isset($_GET['dump'])) { ?>
  <pre>
<?php var_dump($processedFiles); ?>
  </pre>
<?php } ?>
  <form method="post" action="?dump=1" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <input type="file" name="multiple_files[]" multiple><br>
    <input type="file" name="single_file"><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Go">
  </form>
</body>
</html>