file upload in cakephp 2.3

Question

I\'m new in cakephp and i\'m trying to create a simple file upload with cakephp 2.3 here is my controller

public function add() {
    if ($this->request-&         


        

Answer 1

Just incase anyone is searching for it again. Here's my code (tested & used on Cakephp 2.5.5). It is based on http://www.templemantwells.com.au/article/website-development/cakephp-image-uploading-with-database & http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/form.html#FormHelper::file

View file (*.ctp)

    Form->create('Image', array('type' => 'file'));
?>


    

        

    Form->input('Image.submittedfile', array(
            'between' => '
',
            'type' => 'file',
            'label' => false
        ));
        // echo $this->Form->file('Image.submittedfile');

    ?>
    
Form->end(__('Send My Image')); ?>

Controller function (*.php)

    public function uploadPromotion() {

    // Custom
    $folderToSaveFiles = WWW_ROOT . 'img/YOUR_IMAGE_FOLDER/' ;




    if (!$this->request->is('post')) return;        // Not a POST data!


    if(!empty($this->request->data))
    {
        //Check if image has been uploaded
        if(!empty($this->request->data['Image']['submittedfile']))
        {
                $file = $this->request->data['Image']['submittedfile']; //put the data into a var for easy use

                debug( $file );

                $ext = substr(strtolower(strrchr($file['name'], '.')), 1); //get the extension
                $arr_ext = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif'); //set allowed extensions

                //only process if the extension is valid
                if(in_array($ext, $arr_ext))
                {


                    //do the actual uploading of the file. First arg is the tmp name, second arg is 
                    //where we are putting it
                    $newFilename = $file['name']; // edit/add here as you like your new filename to be.
                    $result = move_uploaded_file( $file['tmp_name'], $folderToSaveFiles . $newFilename );

                    debug( $result );

                    //prepare the filename for database entry (optional)
                    //$this->data['Image']['image'] = $file['name'];
                }
        }

        //now do the save (optional)
        //if($this->Image->save($this->data)) {...} else {...}
    }




}