Forms - using files & image upload without form class

Hi ,

i was just wondering if its possible to use normal form syntax rather than laravel form class for image upload .

e.g :

{!! Form::open(array('url'=>'apply/upload','method'=>'POST', 'files'=>true)) !!}

Instead of the above i use :

< form class="form-horizontal" role="form" name="x-update" method="POST"  action="{{ url('/update-x') }}" >

adding files="true" in the above does not seem to work and i can;t find the correct syntax in the docs.

same thing for :

{!! Form::file('image') !!}

I was just wondering if i had to use laravel form class for the above function or is there the equivalent syntax for normal html forms.

Thanks