Let me know if anyone know what is the issue with this code.
Basically i want to upload a file using jQuery
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(event) {
$('#form1').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
$.post('post.php',function(data){
$('#result').html(data);
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1">
<h3>Please input the XML:</h3>
<input id="file" type="file" name="file" /><br/>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Upload File"/>
</form>
<div id="result">call back result will appear here</div>
</body>
</html>
and my php 'post.php'
<?php
echo $file['tmp_name'];
?>
Uploaded File name is not returned back. Issue is i couldn't access the uploaded file.
Thanks in advance!
Shiv
Basically i want to upload a file using jQuery
You cannot upload files using AJAX. You could use the jquery.form plugin which uses a hidden iframe:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script src="http://malsup.github.com/jquery.form.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(event) {
$('#form1').ajaxForm(function(data) {
$('#result').html(data);
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" action="post.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<h3>Please input the XML:</h3>
<input id="file" type="file" name="file" /><br/>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="Upload File"/>
</form>
<div id="result">call back result will appear here</div>
</body>
</html>
Also notice the enctype="multipart/form-data"
on the form.
Another possibility is to use the HTML5 File API which allows you to achieve that assuming the client browser supports it.
It's not possible to upload files with jQuery $.post, neverthless, with the file API and XMLHttpRequest, it's perfectly possible to upload a file in AJAX, and you can even know how much data have been uploaded yet…
$('input').change(function()
{
var fileInput = document.querySelector('#file');
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', '/upload/');
xhr.upload.onprogress = function(e)
{
/*
* values that indicate the progression
* e.loaded
* e.total
*/
};
xhr.onload = function()
{
alert('upload complete');
};
// upload success
if (xhr.readyState == 4 && (xhr.status == 200 || xhr.status == 0))
{
// if your server sends a message on upload sucess,
// get it with xhr.responseText
alert(xhr.responseText);
}
var form = new FormData();
form.append('title', this.files[0].name);
form.append('pict', fileInput.files[0]);
xhr.send(form);
}
No no no, you should use a jQuery form plugin for async uploading files. You can't upload file with jQuery $.post method. The file will be uploaded with hidden iframe
Another way is to use HTML5 uploading with FileAPI/BlobApi
Your upload.php has some error.
you should change your this part.
echo $file['tmp_name'];
to:-
echo $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
Try uploading with an iframe because you can't send a file with $.post method.
You could also try jquery uploadify - http://www.uploadify.com/