Question

I basically have an edit profile page that along with other fields has a option to upload a picture. Now the problem I have is determining wether or not they submitted a file or left it blank(default).

My current code:

if($this->input->post('user_pic') === FALSE)
    {
        //Don't do anything.
    } else {
        //Proccess upload.
    }

The form is done correctly with multi-part and all, and other values do update, so I am assuming that this exact code that isn’t working.

The problem is that even if I do submit a file it remains just like it was, or another words doesn’t do anything. Am I doing this wrong?

Answer 1

you can check so: if(isset($_FILES['user_pic']))

CodeIgniter method:

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

if ($this->upload->do_upload('user_pic'))
  //good
else
  //errors display $this->upload->display_errors()

CodeIgniter File Uploading Class