Receiving end of Cordova file upload - php

Question

I'm working on uploading a file to a server using the cordova-file-transfer plugin. I know my file Upload works when using the browser to select a file yet I'm not entirely sure with the app since it's a relatively new way of doing it for me without form submissions.
EDIT: The below code is modified and is what was successful for me at the time after following #kay27's advice. The solution was to use params to POST the data to the awaiting upload handler.
function uploadFile() {
function success(r) {
console.log("Code = " + r.responseCode);
console.log("Response = " + r.response);
console.log("Sent = " + r.bytesSent);
}
function fail(error) {
console.log("An error has occurred: Code = " + error.code);
console.log("upload error source " + error.source);
console.log("upload error target " + error.target);
}
/* Destination of file */
var url = encodeURI("http://someURL/yourPHPUploadFile.php");
var fileURI = "file:///storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.yourPackageName/fileToUpload";
var options = new FileUploadOptions();
options.fileKey = "file";
options.fileName = fileURI.substr(fileURI.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
options.mimeType = "text/csv";
var params = new Object();
//allows you to POST the data to server side script
params.fileName = options.fileName;
options.params = params;
var ft = new FileTransfer();
ft.upload(fileURI, url, success, fail, options);
}
The edited PHP form
<?php
header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *');
$location = "uploads/";
$uploadfile = $_POST['fileName'];
$uploadfilename = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];
if (move_uploaded_file($uploadfilename, $location . '/' . $uploadfile)) {
echo 'File successfully uploaded!';
} else {
echo 'Upload error!';
}
?>

Answer 1

For my particular issue, the newer way of defining the params worked. The solution can be seen here on Simon MacDonald's answer. I've edited the code above with the final solution that allowed me to upload.