View Looks Like This
<?=form_open_multipart('upload/process');?>
<input type="file" multiple="multiple" name="userfile[]" id="userfile" />
<?=form_submit('upload', 'Upload');?>
<?=form_close();?>
i want the user to be able to upload multiple images at once. once uploaded i want to make an entry of the image details in the database, and finally move the image to the uploads folder.
i have basic knowledge of codeigniter
ps: i dont want to use uploadify or similar image uploading plugins. trying to keep it as light weight as possible
Update
this is the kind of array i am getting when i try var_dump($_FILES['userfile']). what kind of loop should i use to separate the data of the respective images.
array
'name' =>
array
0 => string '01.jpg' (length=6)
1 => string '1 (26).jpg' (length=10)
'type' =>
array
0 => string 'image/jpeg' (length=10)
1 => string 'image/jpeg' (length=10)
'tmp_name' =>
array
0 => string 'C:\wamp\tmp\php2AC2.tmp' (length=23)
1 => string 'C:\wamp\tmp\php2AD3.tmp' (length=23)
'error' =>
array
0 => int 0
1 => int 0
'size' =>
array
0 => int 409424
1 => int 260343
I ran into this problem aswell. The $_FILES
data is sent a diffent structure (due to the multiple=""
attribute) so codeigniter can't handle it. Prepend this before the uploading process:
$arr_files = @$_FILES['userfile'];
$_FILES = array();
foreach(array_keys($arr_files['name']) as $h)
$_FILES["file_{$h}"] = array( 'name' => $arr_files['name'][$h],
'type' => $arr_files['type'][$h],
'tmp_name' => $arr_files['tmp_name'][$h],
'error' => $arr_files['error'][$h],
'size' => $arr_files['size'][$h]);
Then in the loop function use this:
$this->load->library('upload');
$arr_config = array( 'allowed_types' => 'gif|jpg|png',
'upload_path' => 'url_path/');
foreach(array_keys($_FILES) as $h) {
// Initiate config on upload library etc.
$this->upload->initialize($arr_config);
if ($this->upload->do_upload($h)) {
$arr_file_data = $this->upload->data();
}
}
Explanation:
I simply change the structure of $_FILES
to the common structure which is sent on a default <input type="file" />
and the run a loop, fetching all their key names.
The loop you need:
for($i=0; $i<count($_FILES['name']); $i++){
if ($_FILES['error'][$i] == 0) {
//do your stuff here, each image is at $_FILES['tmp_name'][$i]
}
}
Note that is doesn't use the CI upload class, but plain PHP, which I usually find easier to work with instead of the CI's class.
Check out this class for multiple file upload https://github.com/stvnthomas/CodeIgniter-Multi-Upload
This did the trick for me.