Error submitting a form with upload pic option. PHP Codeigniter - php

Question

I've been trying to upload a pic to a folder and store its path in the database, my code seems to work correctly, but no it's not, After i click submit button, it goes to a blank page.
Using Inspect element, Network option in my browser, when seeing the parameters sent
I see correct input from the text fields but for the image,
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="myimage"; filename="IMG_8971.JPG"
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Plus some other weirly looking characters and symbols like :
ÿØÿà
CONTROLLER:
private function setup_upload_option()
{
$config = array();
$config['upload_path'] = 'blog/uploads/';
$config['allowed_type']='jpg|jpeg|png|gif';
$config['encrypt_name']= TRUE;
$config['overwrite']=FALSE;
return $config;
}
public function post_new_blog()
{
$this->form_validation->set_rules('title', 'Title of the Blog', 'trim|required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('desc', 'Content of the Blog', 'trim|required');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('tags', 'Tags fo the blog', 'trim|required');
if($this->form_validation->run()==FALSE) {
$this->session->set_flashdata('fail', validation_errors());
$this->load->view('blogsection/addblog', array('logged_in' => $this->logged_in));
}
else {
$this->load->library('upload');
$files = $_FILES;
$count = count($_FILES['myimage']['name']);
for($i=0; $i<$count ;$i++)
{
$_FILES['myimage']['name'] = $files['myimage']['name'][$i];
$_FILES['myimage']['type'] = $files['myimage']['type'][$i];
$_FILES['myimage']['size'] = $files['myimage']['size'][$i];
$_FILES['myimage']['tmp_name'] = $files['myimage']['tmp_name'][$i];
$this->upload->initialize($this->setup_upload_option());
if($this->upload->do_upload()==TRUE)
{
$data = $this->upload->data();
$config1['image_library'] = 'gd2';
$config1['source_image'] = $data['full_path'];
$config1['new_image'] = 'blog/uploads/thumbs/';
$config1['create_thumb'] = false;
$config1['height'] = 200;
$config['width'] = 200;
$this->load->library('image_lib', $config1);
$this->image_lib->initialize($config1);
$this->image_lib->resize();
$mydata = $this->session->all_userdata();
$dataarray = array(
'blog_title' => $this->input->post('title', true),
'blog_content' => $this->input->post('desc', true),
'blog_tags' => $this->input->post('tags', true),
'blog_image_name' => $data['orig_name'],
'blog_image' => $data['full_path'],
'date_posted' => date(" jS \of F Y "),
'posted_by' => $mydata['username']
);
$this->main_model->save_new_posts($dataarray);
$this->load->view('blogsection/addblog', array('logged_in' => $this->logged_in, 'success' => 'Blog was posted successfully',$dataarray));
}
}
}
}
MODEL:
public function save_new_posts($dataarray)
{
$this->db->insert('blogs', $dataarray);
if($this->db->affected_rows()>0)
{
return true;
}
}

Answer 1

i have code that always works, it is some what different from you method i hope it will help you.
$imgpath='uploads/profile_pic/';
$all_img="";
if($_FILES["profile_pic"]['name'])//form input type file
{
$path_parts = pathinfo($_FILES["profile_pic"]["name"]);
$image_path = $path_parts['filename'].'_'.time().'.'.$path_parts['extension'];
$all_img.=$image_path;
move_uploaded_file($file_tmp=$_FILES["profile_pic"]["tmp_name"],$imgpath."/".$image_path);
$data['cm_user_profile_pic']=$all_img;//store image name in array
}