Angularjs - File upload with php

Question

I have spent days looking for a fairly simple integration of angularjs file upload method that includes a basic php server side script..

I need a simple form one fie

Answer 1

I was also battling with $files being undefined - I'll take a wild guess that you are writing the html code from php and haven't escaped the $ in $files. That was my problem anyway - should be \$files.

Dan

Answer 2

If you use ng-file-upload You can do most of those pre-validation on the client side like checking the file size or type with ngf-max-size or ngf-pattern directives.

Upload.upload() will send a POST multipart/form-data request to the server so $_FILES['file'] should contain the uploaded file.

HTML

<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
  <input type="text" name="username" ng-model="username"/>
  <input type="file" ngf-select="onFileSelect($file)" ngf-pattern="'image/*'" ngf-max-size="2M">
</div>

JS:

//inject angular file upload directives and service.
angular.module('myApp', ['ngFileUpload']);

var MyCtrl = [ '$scope', 'Upload', function($scope, Upload) {
  $scope.onFileSelect = function(file) {
    if (!file) return;
    Upload.upload({
        url: '/upload.php',
        data: {file: file, username: $scope.username}
      }).then(function(resp) {
        // file is uploaded successfully
        console.log(resp.data);
      });    
  };
}];

upload.php

$fname = $_POST["fname"];
if(isset($_FILES['image'])){
    //The error validation could be done on the javascript client side.
    $errors= array();        
    $file_name = $_FILES['image']['name'];
    $file_size =$_FILES['image']['size'];
    $file_tmp =$_FILES['image']['tmp_name'];
    $file_type=$_FILES['image']['type'];   
    $file_ext = strtolower(pathinfo($file_name, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));
    $extensions = array("jpeg","jpg","png");        
    if(in_array($file_ext,$extensions )=== false){
     $errors[]="image extension not allowed, please choose a JPEG or PNG file.";
    }
    if($file_size > 2097152){
    $errors[]='File size cannot exceed 2 MB';
    }               
    if(empty($errors)==true){
        move_uploaded_file($file_tmp,"images/".$file_name);
        echo $fname . " uploaded file: " . "images/" . $file_name;
    }else{
        print_r($errors);
    }
}
?>