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It tells your browser to encode the POST data as multipart/form-data, which is code for ‘there’s a couple parts, and one of them may be something besides a simple text field, so encode it accordingly’.

Without that, you’d get it sent as a URL-encoded list of variable/value pairs (&var=value), which makes transferring a file kinda tough…

enctype=“multipart/form-data” let you upload files with PHP, like JPG files, DOC files, etc…...

I can’t tell you how many times I have forgot to put that and banged my head against the wall for 15 - 20 mins before I realized the omission.

^ Same here….