Codeigniter Image uploading not working on live server - mysql

Question

I have a situation where a user uploads his/her trip photos. They are saved in a folder and also supposed to be in database. Situation is: my code is working perfectly on localhost, and many other servers, but not on the server I want. Though it uploads files successfully, but the query is not executed which is supposed to save file path in database. I am stuck in this problem from more than a week. The same code works in other places. Here is my controller:
public function trip_photos(){
$this->load->model('UserModel');
$this->load->model('CommentModel');
$this->load->library('session');
print_r($_FILES);
$logged_session = $this->session->userdata('login');
if($logged_session == 1) {
$this->load->model('TripModel');
$this->load->model('UserActivityModel');
$uid = $this->session->userdata('uid');
$tid = $this->input->post('tid');
foreach($_FILES as $key => $image_upload){
$upload = self::upload_trip_photo($key);
if($upload['status']){
$this->TripModel->add_trip_photo($uid, $tid, $upload['file']);
}
}
$this->UserctivityModel->add_user_photo($uid, $tid);
}else{
redirect('/');
}
}
private function upload_trip_photo($image){
$msg = '';
$config['upload_path'] = './assets/images/trip/';
$config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png';
$config['max_size'] = 2048;
$config['file_name'] = parent::getGUID();
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
if ($this->upload->do_upload($image))
{
$data = $this->upload->data();
$resize['image_library'] = 'gd2';
$resize['source_image'] = "./assets/images/trip/" . $data['file_name'];
$resize['create_thumb'] = TRUE;
$resize['maintain_ratio'] = TRUE;
$resize['width'] = 222;
$resize['thumb_marker'] = '';
$resize['new_image'] = "./assets/images/trip/thumbnails/" . $data['file_name'];
$this->image_lib->resize();
$this->image_lib->clear();
$this->image_lib->initialize($resize);
if($this->image_lib->resize()){
$status = true;
$msg = $data['file_name'];
}else{
$status = false;
}
}
else
{
$status = false;
}
#unlink($_FILES[$image]);
return array('status' => $status, 'file' => $msg);
}
when I enabled CI_Profiler, it says that only 2 out of 3 query executed on the server I want it to work. But the same profiler suggests that 3 of 3 queries executed on localhost or other servers. Its so confusing.
Please note that I already have checked the following:
File Upload: On
upload_raw_post_data: On
selinux permissions: disables (mine is centos)
File permissions: 777
php memory_limit: 128 MB
max_size: 8 MB
var_dump, print_r, echo all not working or displaying any information from controller.
somehow, this in above code: $upload = self::upload_trip_photo($key); is not giving it back the file path it requires. Can anybody help please? #DFriend
UPDATED Turns out that in the localhost are other servers where its working, this array is returned by the function upload_trip_photo to the $upload variable:
Array ( [image0] => Array ( [name] => maintour3.jpg [type] => image/jpeg
[tmp_name] => D:\xampp\tmp\php2539.tmp [error] => 0 [size] => 200491 ) )
array(2) { ["status"]=> bool(true) ["file"]=> string(36)
"E3965DFC8B265CEFF522A1EC43B33E34.jpg" }
while in the server where its not working, only this array is returned:
Array ( [image0] => Array ( [name] => mg7.jpg [type] => image/jpeg
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpNcCnX0 [error] => 0 [size] => 28460 ) )
It means this statement in the upload_trip_photo() function:
return array('status' => $status, 'file' => $msg);
is not returning the requested array, with file name and status. And why? I am totally clueless.
Help Please!

Answer 1

Thankfully this worked after extensive debugging. The line
if($this->image_lib->resize()){
$status = true;
$msg = $data['file_name'];
}else{
$status = false;
}
was not working. Later when I set it to display_error() method, it showed that my server did not support GD library. This is an essential library to manipulate Graphics. So, the query was not being executed, as the $status variable was set to false.
I recompiled my php with GD Library module. And bigno! its working now.
Thanks for staying with me. :)