27th March 2010 - 4 minutes read time
Whilst creating a small plugin on a Wordpress site I decided not to use the media library as I just wanted to add some small stub images to the content. I created some boxes on the post page using add_meta_box() and added a file input box to them. The only thing is that the post form in Wordpress doesn't have the enctype="multipart/form-data" attribute and so it won't pass file to the $_FILES array in PHP.
It is not possible to add the enctype into the form declaration via Wordpress as there is no hook or action to do this. So the only alternative (rather than hack the source code) is to add the attribute using JavaScript, and as we have JQuery already loaded we can utilise that.
