December 27, 2019

How to upload a file using Codeigniter Rest API

In this tutorial we are going to see how to upload image using rest API in PHP codeigniter.
In API developement we need a case to upload image or file.Below example gives basic idea of uploading image using Codeigniter

Example for upload image using rest API in PHP codeigniter

View File :

<html>
<head>
    <title>File Upload In Codeigniter&lt;/title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo form_open_multipart('upload_controller/do_upload');?>
<?php echo "input type='file' name='logo' size='20' />"; ?>
<?php echo "input type='submit' name='submit' value='upload' /> ";?>
<?php echo "</form>"?>
</body>
</html>

<html>

<head>

<title>File Upload In Codeigniter</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php echo form_open_multipart('upload_controller/do_upload');?>

<?php echo "input type='file' name='logo' size='20' />"; ?>

<?php echo "input type='submit' name='submit' value='upload' /> ";?>

<?php echo "</form>"?>

</body>

</html>

Controller File Uploading image using Codeigniter :

public function do_upload(){
$postData = $this->post();
$config = array(
'upload_path' => "img/logo",             //path for upload
'allowed_types' => "gif|jpg|png|jpeg",   //restrict extension
'max_size' => '100',
'max_width' => '1024',
'max_height' => '768',
'file_name' => 'logo_'.date('ymdhis')
);
$this->load->library('upload',$config);

if($this->upload->do_upload('logo')) 
{
$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
$path = $config['upload_path'].'/'.$data['upload_data']['orig_name'];
        // Write query to store image details of login user { }
$returndata = array('status'=>0,'data'=>'user details','message'=>'image uploaded successfully');
$this->set_response($returndata, 200); 
}
else
{
$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
$returndata = array('status'=>0,'data'=>$error,'message'=>'image upload failed');
$this->set_response($returndata, 200); 
}
}

public function do_upload(){

$postData = $this->post();

$config = array(

'upload_path' => "img/logo", //path for upload

'allowed_types' => "gif|jpg|png|jpeg", //restrict extension

'max_size' => '100',

'max_width' => '1024',

'max_height' => '768',

'file_name' => 'logo_'.date('ymdhis')

);

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

if($this->upload->do_upload('logo'))

{

$data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());

$path = $config['upload_path'].'/'.$data['upload_data']['orig_name'];

// Write query to store image details of login user { }

$returndata = array('status'=>0,'data'=>'user details','message'=>'image uploaded successfully');

$this->set_response($returndata, 200);

}

else

{

$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());

$returndata = array('status'=>0,'data'=>$error,'message'=>'image upload failed');

$this->set_response($returndata, 200);

}

Happy Coding…

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