Question

I have successfully been able to upload files from Android to my server. I followed this tutorial and it works with no problem. Now I need to also send a string along with the file that will be added to the file name once it is uploaded. For example:

Upload my file – myFile.mp3

Upload my string = “|myString”

The file needs to be stored on my server as “myFile.mp3|myString”.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I’m just not quite sure where to place the string to upload it and how to retrieve it in the PHP code.

Answer 1

After looking around some more and trying different things, it finally works. I added this to my java code:

dos.writeBytes(twoHyphens + boundary + lineEnd); 
dos.writeBytes("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mystring\"" + lineEnd + lineEnd);
dos.writeBytes("myString" + lineEnd);

and this to my PHP code to get the string:

$myString="";       

if(isset($_POST['mystring'])) {
    $attachToFile = $_POST['myString']; 
}