Is it a good idea to overwrite Super Global Variables ??

In my opinion, we should discourage, happy to understand what best practice should be ?

Example, where $_FILES is overwritten as

 

PHP Code:

$filesCount = count($_FILES['files']['name']);
        for($i = 0; $i < $filesCount; $i++){
            $_FILES['file']['name']     = $_FILES['files']['name'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['type']     = $_FILES['files']['type'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'] = $_FILES['files']['tmp_name'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['error']     = $_FILES['files']['error'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['size']     = $_FILES['files']['size'][$i];

            // File upload configuration
            $uploadPath = 'uploads/files/';
            $config['upload_path'] = $uploadPath;
            $config['allowed_types'] = 'jpg|jpeg|png|gif';

            // Load and initialize upload library
            $this->load->library('upload', $config);
            $this->upload->initialize($config);

            // Upload file to server
            if($this->upload->do_upload('file')){
                // Uploaded file data
                $fileData = $this->upload->data();
                $uploadData[$i]['file_name'] = $fileData['file_name'];
                $uploadData[$i]['uploaded_on'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
            }
        } 


This is commonly used code to upload multiple files .. 
If this is bad approach.. please share working code for multiple file upload without modify super globals.

There must be a lot of github projects with codeigniter and multiple file uploads.

Personally, I've never needed a multiple file upload.

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In my opinion, we should discourage, happy to understand what best practice should be ?

Example, where $_FILES is overwritten as

 

PHP Code:

$filesCount = count($_FILES['files']['name']);
        for($i = 0; $i < $filesCount; $i++){
            $_FILES['file']['name']     = $_FILES['files']['name'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['type']     = $_FILES['files']['type'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'] = $_FILES['files']['tmp_name'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['error']     = $_FILES['files']['error'][$i];
            $_FILES['file']['size']     = $_FILES['files']['size'][$i];

            // File upload configuration
            $uploadPath = 'uploads/files/';
            $config['upload_path'] = $uploadPath;
            $config['allowed_types'] = 'jpg|jpeg|png|gif';

            // Load and initialize upload library
            $this->load->library('upload', $config);
            $this->upload->initialize($config);

            // Upload file to server
            if($this->upload->do_upload('file')){
                // Uploaded file data
                $fileData = $this->upload->data();
                $uploadData[$i]['file_name'] = $fileData['file_name'];
                $uploadData[$i]['uploaded_on'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
            }
        } 


This is commonly used code to upload multiple files .. 
If this is bad approach.. please share working code for multiple file upload without modify super globals.

$upload_dir ='upload/';
    if(isset($_FILES["sticker_image"]["name"]) && $_FILES["sticker_image"]["name"]!="")
{
$config['upload_path'] = $upload_dir; 
$config['allowed_types'] = 'png'; 
$file = time().'_'.str_replace(' ','_',$_FILES["sticker_image"]['name']);
$insert["sticker_image"] = $file;
$config['file_name'] = $file;
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
$this->upload->initialize($config);
$this->upload->do_upload('sticker_image');
}


Try this code.

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Here is a tutorial on it that shows how to do it without all that mess.

Codeigniter Multiple Files Upload

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