Question

I’m using jQuery file upload plugin

i have read all the docs provided. there is a php integration class but the class is so complicated and not commented at all i just want how to receive the JSON Data and response to the plugin.

because i want a simple implementation just receive the $_FILES array and upload files with move uploaded files. this is the simple plugin:

$('#fileupload').fileupload({

     dataType: 'json',
  done: function (e, data) {
      $.each(data.result, function (index, file) {
        $('<p/>').text(file.name).appendTo(document.body);
      });
  }
});

and the html is:

   <input id="fileupload" type="file" name="files[]" data-url="server/php/" multiple>

the question is how to receive the $_FILES array from this plugin and response to it ???

please could someone help me? just a simple code snippet and i will do the rest

Answer 1

Ok, getting the data on the php-side:

This should be something like:

<?php
foreach( $_FILES as $f )
{
    echo "name = ".$f['name'][0]."\n";
    echo "type = ".$f['type'][0]."\n";
    echo "tmp_name = ".$f['tmp_name'][0]."\n";
    echo "error = ".$f['error'][0]."\n";
    echo "size = ".$f['size'][0]."\n";

}
?>

If it doesn’t work (in your php handler):

# ...
error_log( print_r( $_REQUEST, true ) )
error_log( print_r( $_FILES, true ) )
# ...

The output is written to the error log of your server. It should look somewhat like:

# $_REQUEST
array(0) {
}

# $_FILES
array(1) {
  ["files"]=>
  array(5) {
    ["name"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(30) "some.pdf"
    }
    ["type"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(15) "application/pdf"
    }
    ["tmp_name"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      string(14) "/tmp/phpkqOz2M"
    }
    ["error"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      int(0)
    }
    ["size"]=>
    array(1) {
      [0]=>
      int(51869)
    }
  }
}

You will have to walk the array of $_FILES and move each one to where to store it…

foreach( $_FILES as $f ){
    move_uploaded_file( $f['tmp_name'][0], './some/path/'.$f['name'][0] );
}