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Here’s what I want to do. I want to be able to open a file select box from PHP and select multiple files in that box and have the names returned to my PHP program in an array. Sounds very simple. And doesn’t seem to be possible.

Searching the web for various ways to describe this feature returns many pages that talk about ways to have multiple ‘Browse’ buttons on one page or point you to commercial solutions using Flash or Java applets to do the trick. But PHP itself doesn’t seem to be able to do this. That seems like a seriously missing feature to me.

Why do I want this? I have another WordPress blog where I post many pictures in my articles (not as galleries, just as part of the flow of my posts) and it would be much easier to simply select all the pictures that I’ve exported from Adobe Lightroom, upload them to my server and then add the references to the blog post. But it’s the “simply select all the pictures” part that isn’t possible in PHP.

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