Whats the correct way to pass data to ajax using jquery. I have the following method and I want to pass the CSRF token from a meta tag but it doesn't work.
<meta name="csrf-token" content="{{ csrf_token() }}">
<div class="fallback">
<input type="file" name="logo" id="logo" class="inputfile"/>
</div>
$(document).on("change", ".fallback .inputfile", function() {
$.ajax({
url: "/upload",
type: 'POST',
cache: false,
data: {
_token: $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
},
files: $(":file", this),
iframe: true,
processData: false
}).complete(function(data) {
console.log(data);
// $('#img-thumb').attr('src', data.path);
// $('input[name="job_logo"]').val(data.path);
});
});
Laravel method to process the file:
public function upload(Request $request) {
if($request->hasFile('logo')) {
//upload an image to the /img/tmp directory and return the filepath.
$file = $request->file('logo');
$tmpFileName = time() . '-' . $file->getClientOriginalName();
$tmpFilePath = '/img/tmp/';
$file = $file->move(public_path() . $tmpFilePath, $tmpFileName);
$path = $tmpFilePath . $tmpFileName;
return response()->json(['path'=> $path], 200);
} else {
return response()->json(false, 200);
}
}
I've followed the documentation from the following source https://cmlenz.github.io/jquery-iframe-transport/
I get tokenmismatch error. Note this is using Laravel 5.1
* UPDATE *
Should be able to add the token directly to data attribute as the csrf token is already in my meta tag. Below is an example done using backbone.js/ruby on rails, but I'm not an expert on backbone/rails so if any one can translate that into jquery it would be helpful. (http://estebanpastorino.com/2013/09/27/simple-file-uploads-with-backbone-dot-js/)
uploadFile: function(event) {
var values = {};
var csrf_param = $('meta[name=csrf-param]').attr('content');
var csrf_token = $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr('content');
var values_with_csrf;
if(event){ event.preventDefault(); }
_.each(this.$('form').serializeArray(), function(input){
values[ input.name ] = input.value;
})
values_with_csrf = _.extend({}, values)
values_with_csrf[csrf_param] = csrf_token
this.model.save(values, { iframe: true,
files: this.$('form :file'),
data: values_with_csrf });
}