Blobbing Data With PHP and MySQL

I read this article and was very impressed with it. It was well set out and very easy to understand.

However, when I went to try the scripts out two things happened.

In my Apache server:

When I opened the uploadfile.php and keyed a filename and entered a file it kept returning the message "you have to enter both fields" even though I had done both these things correctly

So I renamed uploadfile.php to .html and the same thing happened through the server BUT when I opened the html page in my browser and keyed the necessary inputs it started the download file process which would allow me to download it to a folder.

I may be wrong but through my server it appears that either the <input type="text" name="strDesc" size="20" maxlength="50"> is not parsing to the grabfile.php script or the <input type="file" name="fileUpload" size="20"></font> is not parsing to the grabfile.php file or both.

Can anyone help me? I'm having a braindead day to go with my braindead week!

Just in case you haven't seen this article it's at http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Blobbing-Data-With-PHP-and-MySQL/2/

Thanks Hoppy