How to upload image in CodeIgniter?

Simple Image upload in codeigniter

Find below code for easy image upload:

public function doupload()
     {
        $upload_path="https://localhost/project/profile"  
        $uid='10'; //creare seperate folder for each user 
        $upPath=upload_path."/".$uid;
        if(!file_exists($upPath)) 
        {
                   mkdir($upPath, 0777, true);
        }
        $config = array(
        'upload_path' => $upPath,
        'allowed_types' => "gif|jpg|png|jpeg",
        'overwrite' => TRUE,
        'max_size' => "2048000", 
        'max_height' => "768",
        'max_width' => "1024"
        );
        $this->load->library('upload', $config);
        if(!$this->upload->do_upload('userpic'))
        { 
            $data['imageError'] =  $this->upload->display_errors();
             
        }
        else
        {
            $imageDetailArray = $this->upload->data();
            $image =  $imageDetailArray['file_name'];
        }
        
     }

It seems the problem is you send the form request to welcome/do_upload, and call the Welcome::do_upload() method in another one by $this->do_upload().

Hence when you call the $this->do_upload(); within your second method, the $_FILES array would be empty.

And that's why var_dump($data['upload_data']); returns NULL.

If you want to upload the file from welcome/second_method, send the form request to the welcome/second_method where you call $this->do_upload();.

Then change the form helper function (within the View) as follows¹:

// Change the 'second_method' to your method name
echo form_open_multipart('welcome/second_method');

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File Uploading with CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter has documented the Uploading process very well, by using the File Uploading library.

You could take a look at the sample code in the user guide; And also, in order to get a better understanding of the uploading configs, Check the Config items Explanation section at the end of the manual page.

Also there are couple of articles/samples about the file uploading in CodeIgniter, you might want to consider:

• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-upload-files-with-codeigniter-and-ajax--net-21684
• http://runnable.com/UhIc93EfFJEMAADX/how-to-upload-file-in-codeigniter
• http://jamshidhashimi.com/image-upload-with-codeigniter-2/
• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-upload-files-with-codeigniter-and-ajax--net-21684
• http://hashem.ir/CodeIgniter/libraries/file_uploading.html (CodeIgniter 3.0-dev User Guide)

Just as a side-note: Make sure that you've loaded the url and form helper functions before using the CodeIgniter sample code:

// Load the helper files within the Controller
$this->load->helper('form');
$this->load->helper('url');

// Load the helper files within the application/config/autoload
$autoload['helper'] = array('form', 'url');

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_{1. The form must be "multipart" type for file uploading. Hence you should use `form_open_multipart()` helper function which returns: ``}