Question

It is my first time to use codeigniter in building my school project.

Let me go straight.

I can get my POST request except for the form_upload();

This is my sample FORM:

<?php
echo form_open('admin/test_upload');
    echo form_input(array('name' => 'title'));?><br/><?
    echo form_upload(array('name' => 'file'));
    echo form_submit(array('name' => 'submit', 'value' => 'submit'));
echo form_close();
?>

This is my CONTROLLER:

function test_upload(){
    $data['header'] = "TEST UPLOAD";
    var_dump($_POST) ; //basically, this is function echoes back the post array.
    $this->load->view('admin/dashboard_view', $data);
}

This is the Output

array(2) {
["title"]=>
string(3) "asd"
["submit"]=>
string(6) "submit"
}

//The ["file"] is missing.... wHAT!?>

Can someone help me out?

Answer 1

File uploads need to have an enctype="multipart/form-data" in their form tag, so you should be using this to open the form:

echo form_open_multipart('admin/test_upload');

Also, as the others have mentioned, the uploaded files will be in $_FILES instead of $_POST.