Question

I am trying to save an uploaded image from an iPhone to a server using PHP. I am using ASIHTTPRequest to handle the data request. This is my iPhone code:

[request setPostValue:someString forKey:@"string1"];
[request setPostValue:anotherString forKey:@"string2"];
[request addData:[NSData dataWithData:UIImageJPEGRepresentation(anImage, 0.9)]
         withFileName:@"img.jpg" andContentType:@"image/jpeg" forKey:@"img"];

[request startSynchronous];

On the server side, I am using this PHP code currently to try saving the image to a folder on my server:

print_r($_FILES);

$folder = 'upload/';
$image_path = basename($_FILES['img']['name']);
echo $folder . $image_path . "\n";
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['img']['tmp_name'], $folder . $image_path)) {
    echo 'ok!';
} 
else {
    echo 'fail !';
}

The strings are uploaded just fine and when I print_r() i see the contents of the image array as I expect, but for some reason when trying to save the image, i am getting “fail !” printed to the console. What is wrong here?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try the following step before you move your image

if(!is_dir($folder))
{
   echo "Folder does not exist" ;

   if(!mkdir($folder))
   {
      echo "Attempt to create folder failed" ;
   }
}
else if(!is_writable($folder))
{
   echo "Folder nto writeable" ;

   if(!chmod($folder, 0755))
   {
        echo "Attempt to make writeable failed" ;
   }
}
 else {

   if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['img']['tmp_name'], $folder . $image_path)) {
      echo 'ok!';
   }
   else {
    echo 'fail !';
   }    
}

What do you get ???