Cant access image data in cakephp 2.0 through custom form - html

Question

I have created one function to add users. The parameters are username,email,password and profile image.
<form name="User" method="post" action="http://192.168.1.100/filmtastic/api/users/adduser" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data">
<table>
<tr><td><label>username:</label></td><td><input type="text" name="username"></td></tr>
<tr><td><label>password:</label></td><td><input type="text" name="password"></td></tr>
<tr><td><label>email:</label></td><td><input type="text" name="email"></td></tr>
<tr><td><label>Image:</label></td><td><input type="file" name="image"></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /></td></tr></table>
</form>
Now in my UserController i have:
public function api_adduser() {
$this->layout = false;
$this->request->data['User']= $this->request->data;
if($this->request->data['User'] != array()) {
pr($this->request->data); die();
}
}
here i debug the data which is passed by that HTML form and optput is like
Array
(
[username] => jack roy
[password] => jack
[email] => jack#yahoo.com
[submit] => Submit
[User] => Array
(
[username] => jack roy
[password] => jack
[email] => jack#yahoo.com
[submit] => Submit
)
)
The problem is that it will not show me the image array. can you tell me how i will get that image array which suppose to look like
Array
(
[image] => Array
(
[name] => 06_01_2009_0692878001231258160_nanzig.jpg
[type] => image/jpeg
[tmp_name] => C:\wamp\tmp\php368F.tmp
[error] => 0
[size] => 81167
)
)

Answer 1

Maybe you simply forgot to set the form mime type to multipart/form-data. Here is my demo view, called add.ctp
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('User', array('enctype' => 'multipart/form-data'));
echo $this->Form->input('name');
echo $this->Form->password('password');
echo $this->Form->input('email');
echo $this->Form->file('image');
echo $this->Form->submit();
echo $this->Form->end();
Here is the UserController
class UserController extends AppController {
public $helpers = array('Html', 'Form');
public function add() {
pr($this->request->data);
}
}
And here is how the result looks like when you submit the form
Array
(
[User] => Array
(
[name] => admin
[password] => admin
[email] => asdf#qwerty.com
[image] => Array
(
[name] => cakephp-book.odt
[type] => application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
[tmp_name] => /tmp/phpKniokr
[error] => 0
[size] => 170247
)
)
)
Here is a dump of the generated HTML which you may want to use on your external page (may I ask why???). Note how many things the FormHelper adds... I wonder why you build an external view if your application is still accessing your server directly...
<form action="/test/cakedemo/user/add" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="UserAddForm"
method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
<div style="display:none;">
<input type="hidden" name="_method" value="POST" />
</div>
<div class="input text">
<label for="UserName">Name</label><input name="data[User][name]"
id="UserName" />
</div><input name="data[User][password]" type="password" id="UserPassword" />
<div class="input text">
<label for="UserEmail">Email</label><input name="data[User][email]" type="text"
id="UserEmail" />
</div><input type="file" name="data[User][image]" id="UserImage" />
<div class="submit">
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</div>
</form>