Hello and thank you for responding! I’m certainly not a PHP genius either – I’m basically just learning as I go…which can be rough on occasion 
I did try something very similar and still only got the response “1” from $_POST. I also just tried precisely what you suggested but the server still seems to only see “1” as the param value.
Would you mind terribly posting an excerpt of your file transfer upload function and the PHP it interacts with to accomplish successfully getting the params? It could be enormously helpful, perhaps it would be obvious what I’m overlooking!
Cheers