Inserting path of a image into database using codeigniter - php

Question

Here is my controller insertion code
This code inserts image into image path folder but the path is not saving in database.
function add_hotel() {
//validate form input
$this->form_validation->set_rules('hotelname', 'Hotel Name', 'required|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('hotellocation', 'Hotel Location', 'required|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('hotelphone', 'Hotel Phone', 'required|xss_clean');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('hotelimg', 'Hotel Image ', 'callback__image_upload');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('hotelabout', 'Hotel About', 'required|xss_clean');
if ($this->form_validation->run() == true)
{
$config['upload_path'] = './images/';
$config['allowed_types'] = 'gif|jpg|png';
$config['max_size'] = '1000000';
$config['overwrite'] = TRUE;
$config['remove_spaces'] = TRUE;
$config['encrypt_name'] = FALSE;
$this->load->library('upload', $config);
$field_name = "hotelimg";
if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload($field_name))
{
$error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
$this->load->view('admin/add_hotel', $error);
}
else {
$data = array(
'hotelname' => $this->input->post('hotelname'),
'hotellocation' => $this->input->post('hotellocation'),
'hotelphone' => $this->input->post('hotelphone'),
'hotelimg' => $this->upload->data('hotelimg'),
'hotelabout' => $this->input->post('hotelabout')
);
print_r($data);
$this->db->insert('hotel_content', $data);
$this->session->set_flashdata('message', "<p>Hotel added successfully.</p>");
redirect(base_url().'index.php/admin/hotel_controller/index');
}
Error shown is:
A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Notice
Message: Array to string conversion
Filename: mysql/mysql_driver.php
Line Number: 552
and
A Database Error Occurred:
Error Number: 1054
Unknown column 'Array' in 'field list'
INSERT INTO `hotel_content` (`hotelname`, `hotellocation`, `hotelphone`, `hotelimg`, `hotelabout`) VALUES ('hotel5', 'hyd', '0402365477', Array, 'welcome')
Filename: G:\wamp\www\CodeIgniter\system\database\DB_driver.php
Line Number: 330
I need path to be inserted in database. Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

replace else part with
else {
$data = array(
'hotelname' => $this->input->post('hotelname'),
'hotellocation' => $this->input->post('hotellocation'),
'hotelphone' => $this->input->post('hotelphone'),
'hotelimg' => $this->upload->data('hotelimg'),
'hotelabout' => $this->input->post('hotelabout')
);
print_r($data);
$this->db->insert('hotel_content', $data);
$this->session->set_flashdata('message', "<p>Hotel added successfully.</p>");
redirect(base_url().'index.php/admin/hotel_controller/index');
}
with this
else {
$image_path = $this->upload->data();
$data = array(
'hotelname' => $this->input->post('hotelname'),
'hotellocation' => $this->input->post('hotellocation'),
'hotelphone' => $this->input->post('hotelphone'),
'hotelimg' => $image_path[full_path],
'hotelabout' => $this->input->post('hotelabout')
);
print_r($data);
$this->db->insert('hotel_content', $data);
$this->session->set_flashdata('message', "<p>Hotel added successfully.</p>");
redirect(base_url().'index.php/admin/hotel_controller/index');
}

Answer 2

the line "$this->upload->data('hotelimg')" in else part returns an array.
You just need uploaded path from it which can be extracted as:
$temp = $this->upload->data('hotelimg');
$uploadedPath = $temp[full_path];