[will]

Anyone successfully put these two together?

I was trying to figure out a Yii way to handle file upload. The regular single file upload is well taken care of by Form and CFileUpload, however when I try to implement a multiple file upload using CMultiFileUpload and CUploadedFile, things become ugly.
I started with the simplest way, no form required, I have a view like


in controller, I use $_FILES['uploadfile'] to get the uploaded file array, which is fine. however, I couldn't find a way to pass to CUploadFile, which has only getInstance () and getInstanceByName() motheds, none of them seems fit the situation here. ( getInstance () only works with form, while getInstanceByName() seems only works with single upload).

I am not sure if I miss sth there, so any advice is welcome.

PS.: From I what I have learned, I think there is a misleading instruction in the CMultiFileUpload  doc http://www.yiiframew...MultiFileUpload.
Quote:

Quote

This is based on the jQuery Multi File Upload plugin. The uploaded file information can be accessed via $_FILES[widget-id], which gives an array of the uploaded files. Note, you have to set the enclosing form's 'enctype' attribute to be 'multipart/form-data'.

actually, you can only access uploaded file information via $_FILES['inputfiled_name'], NOT $_FILES[widget-id].

[will]

Anyone interested in this topic?

[qwerty]

Hi,
try this http://jquery-multif...ml#tab-Examples
This solution not base on CUploadedFile but work

[StErMi]

Maybe you will be interested on this: http://www.yiiframew...oc/cookbook/29/

I maked an example with multi image upload but you can adapt it on your own scenario

[will]

thanks for your replies.
@qwerty : If you check the CMultiFileUpload class reference, you will see CMultiFileUpload is bridge class for jqueryMultipleFile plugin.

@StErMi : Though my original attempt is to make  CMultiFileUpload work with CUploadedFile, I gave the cookbook example a try, however it has many typos among other issues, I have left a comment there. Basically, I cannot get the file info in $_POST.

[qwerty]

Hi,
you are right @will.

I use CMultiFileUpload and it works fine.

My view file:

...



<div class="form">

<?php echo CHtml::form('','post',array('enctype'=>'multipart/form-data')); ?>



...



<?php $this->widget('CMultiFileUpload',array('name'=>'files', 'htmlOptions'=>array('class'=>'mf'), 'denied'=>Yii::t('mf','Nie można zazanczyć pliku'),'duplicate'=>Yii::t('mf','Ten plik jest już wstawiony'),'remove'=>Yii::t('mf','usuń'),'selected'=>Yii::t('mf','Zaznaczono plik: $file'),)); ?>

Controller file:

...



foreach($_FILES['files']['name'] as $key => $filename)

{

	move_uploaded_file($_FILES['files']['tmp_name'][$key],$path.'/'.$filename);

}



...

I hope this help

[will]

Thank you qwerty, your approach has the work done.
However, I am still wondering if CMultiFileUpload can work with CUploadedFile. Maybe I should dig into the Yii core.

[StErMi]

I updated the cookbook with some fix anyway

[edek]

will, on 04 May 2009 - 06:35 PM, said:

Thank you qwerty, your approach has the work done.
However, I am still wondering if CMultiFileUpload can work with CUploadedFile. Maybe I should dig into the Yii core.

If you want to use CUploadedFile, I believe you can. Instead of qwerty's approach (of using move_uploaded_file),
you can use

$images = CUploadedFile::getInstancesByName('files'); //'files' is the name of the array (see qwerty's example)

or similar approach

in view:

<?php $this->widget('CMultiFileUpload',array('name'=>get_class($fileModel).'[files]',...

in controller:

<?php CUploadedFile::getInstances(get_class($fileModel),'files'); ?>

The class of $imageModel object does not need to have 'files' attribute (i think it wouldn't be of much use, unless you tweak model). I like this approach since files are uploaded inside $_FILES[model_class_here][files] and there is no bare 'files' key in $_FILES.

[Vicente Russo]

None of these methods worked for me (didn't tried move_uploaded.. because i think it works).

When i try

$images = CUploadedFile::getInstancesByName('files'); //'files' is the name of the array (see qwerty's example)

I have an empty array on $images. My input's name: "files[]"

I'm willing to make a very detailed post with examples if anyone helps me out!

Tks

[maxazan]

Vicente Russo, on 04 April 2011 - 06:18 AM, said:

None of these methods worked for me (didn't tried move_uploaded.. because i think it works).

When i try

$images = CUploadedFile::getInstancesByName('files'); //'files' is the name of the array (see qwerty's example)

I have an empty array on $images. My input's name: "files[]"

I'm willing to make a very detailed post with examples if anyone helps me out!

Tks

May be your form widget does not have 'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data'

View:

<?php

$form = $this->beginWidget('CActiveForm', array(
    'id' => 'shop-items-form',
    'enableAjaxValidation' => false,
    'htmlOptions' => array(
        'enctype' => 'multipart/form-data')
        ));
?>

...

<?php

$this->widget('CMultiFileUpload', array(
    'name' => 'files',
    'accept' => 'jpeg|jpg|gif|png',
    'duplicate' => 'Duplicate file!',
    'denied' => 'Invalid file type',
));
?>

...

<?php $this->endWidget(); ?>

Controller:

$images = CUploadedFile::getInstancesByName('files');

[Anas AbuDayah]

great question thank you