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Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 01-31-2008
[eluser]sherpa[/eluser]
Hi Everybody. I want to share my problem here. My problem is that i can't upload PDF files. I have created a function which meants to upload as many PDF files as i want passing file arrays and filepath arrays to the function as parameters. Everytime I try, it says The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed. However, i can upload JPG and GIF files with the same code changing extension without any errors. I don't know whats wrong with my following code. Hope you guys help me..;
Code:
class Post extends Controller
{
function Post()
{
parent::Controller();
}
function product()
{
if(isset($_FILES['pdf']) AND strlen($_FILES['pdf']['name'])>0)
{
$pdf_path = array('./pixs/products/pdf');
$pdf_files = array('pdf'); // FILE INPUT NAME
$PDFUpload = $this -> UploadPDF($pdf_path, $pdf_files)
}
}
function UploadPDF($upload_path=array(),$files=array())
{
$config['allowed_types']= 'pdf';
$pdfPath[] = array();
$data[] = array();
$count_files = count($files);
for($i = 0; $i < $count_files; $i++)
{
$config['upload_path'] = $upload_path[$i];
$this -> load -> library('upload',$config);
if(isset($files[$i]) || is_array($files[$i]))
{
if(!$this -> upload -> do_upload($files[$i]))
{
echo $this->upload->display_errors('<p>', '</p>');
}
else
{
$data[$i] = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
$pdfPath[$i] = $data[$i]['upload_data']['full_path'];
return $pdfPath;
}
}
}
return FALSE;
}
}Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 01-31-2008
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
you should check what kind of file type that gets send along with the data
Code:
echo $_FILES['userfile']['type']Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 01-31-2008
[eluser]sherpa[/eluser]
It returns application/pdf and its already in mimes.php.
array('application/pdf', 'application/x-download')
But it is still not working.
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 01-31-2008
[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
try this
Code:
function UploadPDF($upload_path=array(),$files=array())
{
$this -> load -> library('upload'); // moved outside loop
$config['allowed_types']= 'pdf';
$pdfPath[] = array();
$data[] = array();
$count_files = count($files);
for($i = 0; $i < $count_files; $i++)
{
$config['upload_path'] = $upload_path[$i];
$this->upload->initialize($config); // added
if(isset($files[$i]) || is_array($files[$i]))
{
if(!$this -> upload -> do_upload($files[$i]))
{
echo $this->upload->display_errors('<p>', '</p>');
}
else
{
$data[$i] = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
$pdfPath[$i] = $data[$i]['upload_data']['full_path'];
return $pdfPath;
}
}
}
return FALSE;
}Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 01-31-2008
[eluser]sherpa[/eluser]
Thanks a lot xwero
It works perfectly now.
Thanks a lot again.
By the way wot was the problem XWERO??
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 04-10-2008
[eluser]Muppit[/eluser]
I too had this problem - took me ages to find this post and when I did I followed the advice to check the file type being passed.
Turns out it looked like this: 'aplication/unknown' - why I have no idea but explains why the uploader was spitting the dummy.
Anyway, because it's 4:30pm Friday and because I'm dying for an ice-cold Steinlager I fixed the issue by amending this line:
Code:
'pdf' => array('application/pdf', 'application/x-download'),Code:
'pdf' => array('application/pdf', 'application/x-download', 'application/unknown'),In the file located here: system/application/config/mimes.php
I realise this is bad programming practices but like I said, it will band-aid that irritating error message until I can figure out why my PDF's are so crappy.
Cheers,
Muppit
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 05-13-2008
[eluser]lay-z-cow[/eluser]
Hi,
is there any better solution than the one of Muppit?
I have the same problem. My upload works perfect, but it won't let me upload pdf-files:
"The filetype you are attempting to upload is not allowed."
Even though it is.
Same matter with docx and other office2007 files.
Any ideas?
Greets,
Chris
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 07-15-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
I had the same problem in FIREFOX 3.0 but not in IE 7.0
so my quick fix, since I was only uploading pdfs was to force
Code:
$_FILES['programa']['type']='application/pdf';with that i had it working with both. BTW when I inspected
Code:
echo $_FILES['programa']['type']it returned forcedownload or something like that
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 08-14-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi, I had the same when I was trying to upload PDF files from FireFox 2.0, I've fixed changing the 'pdf' array in config/mimes.php to:
'pdf' => array('application/pdf', 'application/x-download', 'application/force-download'),
Perhaps there's variations in each browser, I tried in IE7, Safari 3 and FF2 (which was the only one who got the 'application/force-download' mime type).
--Erik
Problem uploading PDF Files - El Forum - 08-21-2008
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hello everyone, I have been getting this message and reading what you all have done to fix it. The problem is that I am a true layman, as Sargent Schultz (Hogans Heroes TV show)would say "I know NOTHING!" however I am a great robot- I can follow exact directions if one of you can please tell me what to do step by step. I would be most grateful, Thanks