File upload() problems - Printable Version

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File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
Hi all,

I have been using the example here to try and get some file upload.

http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/libraries/file_uploading.html

Trying to get it to work all day and still no luck, was wondering if you guys with a spare pair of eyes could spot what I am doing wrong.

View:

Code:
...rest of the view

<div class="upload" style="display:block; float:left;" >

                <h3>Upload an electronic copy?</h3>

                <select name="upload" id="upload" style="display:block;">

                   <option value="No">No</option>

                   <option value="Yes">Yes</option> 

                </select>

<div id="uploadarea" style="width:900px;float:left;display:none">

    &lt;?php

          //File upload of record if needed by user

        echo form_upload('userfile');

        echo '<hr/>';

               //Button for submitting form

              echo form_submit('submit', 'Submit Data');

    echo form_close();

    ?&gt;

</div>

The Controller:

Checks if user wants to upload then calls upload function

Code:
//if the user selected from pulldown "Yes"

//Uploads electronic record e.g. pdf, word, etc

if ($this->input->post('upload') == 'Yes')

{

$this->form_validation->set_rules('upload_record','required');

$this->upload_record();                

}

function upload_record()

            {

                $config['upload_path'] = '/records/'.$this->session->userdata['name'].'/';

                $config['allowed_types'] = '';

                $this->load->library('upload', $config);

                if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload())

                {

                    $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());

                    echo "failed";

                    echo $error;

                }

                else

                {

                    $data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());

                    echo $data;

                }

            }

The controller is echoing "Failed" so the upload is not working obviously. Any suggestions. I have been through the example above with a tooth comb trying to spot mistakes.

-My folder "records" is in the root directory.
-My session variable "name" is set and has a default name of "Bob" so the config folder path should be "/records/bob/"

Thanks!

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
I guess you don't get any error message?

Change this code block to see what CI is complaining about:

Code:
if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload())

                {

                    $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());

                    echo "failed";

                    echo $this->upload->display_errors(); // changed here

                }

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
The error message it is saying is you did not specify a file to upload?

I selected a file in my form? So what could this be?

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
I can't see your whole view file so: do you have
the multipart attribute in your form opening tag?

Code:
enctype="multipart/form-data"

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
Nope, I will include it now and report back to you!

Okay I tried to add the multipart but still doesn't work:

Here is a more descriptive account of what I am trying to achieve.

Basically I want in my view for submitting data and uploading a file and that this would all be processed through the one form.

1
-User enters data
-User selects an electronic copy of the data a pdf or excel file
2
+Data in form gets sent to database
+File gets uploaded to site with an id that matches the record in the database

Here is the structure of my view

Code:
echo form_open('submit/validateform');    

//Code for other sections of the form

....

//Code for uploading a file associated with the data in form

<div class="upload" style="display:block; float:left;" >

        &lt;?php echo form_open_multipart('upload/do_upload');?&gt; //The bit I added!!

<h3>Upload an electronic copy?</h3>

<select name="upload" id="upload" style="display:block;>

                   <option value="No">No</option>

                   <option value="Yes">Yes</option> 

           </select>

                <div id="uploadarea" style="width:900px;float:left;display:none">

 &lt;?php

                //File upload of record if needed by user

                echo form_upload('userfile', set_value('userfile'));

                echo '<hr/>';

 ?&gt;

                </div>

&lt;/form&gt;

This might be an unorthodox way to do it, but I want to achieve it all in the one form/view so its easier for my users rather than do each task seperately.

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
Ok so I tried it with many file and it is still giving me no file selected.

I was wondering could this be to do with file permissions?
Also how do I set my file permission on localhost computer?

Thanks

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-29-2011

[eluser]LuckyFella73[/eluser]
I don't know if that's the problem but you can't
have this:

Code:
echo form_upload('userfile', set_value('userfile'));

Should look like:

Code:
echo form_upload('userfile');

You can't set the value of a input "type file". When
the upload fails the user has to select the file again.
Check the parsed source-code in your browser
and be sure that the name of the input/file is "userfile".

I don't think it's a permission problem otherwise you should
get an error message like "the folder ... seems not to be writable".
Just in this sense Wink

On Windows you don't have to set a permission, on a Linux server
I guess you need 777 (CI Userguide say so)

I would set a "allowed_types" value btw. You have to set
at least one type or use a wildcard:

Code:
$config['allowed_types'] = '*'

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-30-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
Okay I have changed my code aroun a bit so what I have is a seperate form for uploading a file.

However now I am getting an error message

Quote:The upload path does not appear to be valid.

This is the code:

Code:
function upload_record()

            {

                $config['upload_path'] = '/records/';

                $config['allowed_types'] = '*';

                $this->load->library('upload', $config);

                if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload())

                {

                    $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());

                    echo "failed";

                    echo $this->upload->display_errors(); 

                }

                else

                {

                    $data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());

                    echo $data;

                }

            }

My records folder is in the root directory

This is my baseurl

http://localhost/midas/

File path

C:\xampp\htdocs\midas

Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/9iDhL.jpg

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-30-2011

[eluser]Ivar89[/eluser]
Try this:

Code:
$config['upload_path'] = './records/';

File upload() problems - El Forum - 07-30-2011

[eluser]brucebat[/eluser]
It works!!

So what does the "." do is it similar to ".." when you do file hrefs in HTML?